Which restaurant?

 Homespect wrote:

 >I've got a coupon for dinner for two at one of two restaurants, and have
 >never been to either one of them.  Can anybody offer me any opinions or
 >recommendations?  The choices are.........."Pescatore"(at the locks , in
 >Ballard) or "Metropolitan Grill"(at 2nd & Marion in downtown Seattle)

 Depends on what you'd like.  Pescatore has Italian-influenced food,
 with lasagnas and pastas, and lots of seafood in the mix; I recently
 had a pretty decent broiled halibut there, served over tasty garlic
 mashed potatoes.  The clam linguine is fine, and the lasagnas are
 substantial.  The Metropolitan Grill is more geared to the red-meat
 eater, lots of steaks and grills, although there are some other things
 to round out the menu a bit.

 Hope you enjoy your dinner, wherever you decide to have it.

 Pescatore's kinda sucks unless you order the right thing. (Stick with
 grilled fish or appetizers) I had a not-so-good meal there, to begin
 with we had to wait 20 min. for a table even though we had reservations
 and there were planty of empty tables available, then they played
 "telephone" with my last name until it was so garbled and bore no
 resemblence to what it is that I had no idea that they were even
 referring to me when they called my "name". The wine was good, the
 service was good, the calimari was too salty. My friend ordered prawns
 that were cooked in a tomato sauce and served over pasta. The prawns
 were gritty, the tomato sauce was canned stewed tomatoes with big tomato
 clumps and just pepper for seasoning. As far as I could tell no time or
 imagination went into the making of that tomato sauce. My neighbor's cat
 could have made a better sauce! (Even Classico straight from the jar
 would have been a 1000% improvement.) I had the crab cakes which were
 so-so and were served with what was supposed to be a sundried tomato
 condiment which looked and tasted exactly like tomato paste straight
 from the can - cold! We filled out the customer comments card and a few
 months later I received a letter from company HQ stating that my
 concerns were noted and the problems fixed...blah blah blah) and they
 enclosed a $50 gift certificate to eat there again. (Oh no, please don't
 make me eat there again!) OK, so I go back there again with my friend.
 She orders a similar dish to what she had before. Same thing, yucky
 tomato sauce! I was slightly smarter and ordered the grilled salmon
 which came with whipped potatoes and string beans. The salmon was good
 but for those prices I would much rather spend my money at a better
 restuarant or even a cheaper place with better food. The interior of
 Pescatore's is very nice, too bad their food doesn't live up to the
 decor and their cat can't cook as well as my neighbor's!

 SCN U. wrote:

 >
 >Someone wrote:
 >
 >>The question is whether you want steaks (Met Grill) or fish (Pescatore)
 >>Both are quality places.
 >
 >Pescatore also has parking and a view.

  Met grill is also overpriced IMHO.

 Al