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Last Night

Uncategorized March 18, 2010 at 11:25 am Josh Feit

This email just in from Cynara, our Bad Cop.

Hey Josh:

I went to a private restaurant opening last night…..

If you’ve never been, private, or soft openings for restaurants are like dress rehearsals. The restaurant is practicing on you, and in exchange for their fumbling you get to eat and drink copiously, for free. Which is why, if a friend asks you to be their date at the opening of a new restaurant’s friends and family night, you go.

So when my friend asked me to be her plus-one at the opening of Blueacre, the massive new seafood restaurant by local star chef Kevin Davis (Chef de Cuisine is SF transplant Brian O’Connor) I leapt at the chance. And put on loose fitting dress.

I expected to have fun, I expected to be full. What I didn’t expect was to be thoroughly wowed by the food. It’s an opening. Food should a little over cooked. Or undercooked. Or in need of lemon. Or salt.

Instead, everything was perfect (I loved, loved, loved the Black Cod, the Crab Bisque, & Butter Prawns). People are always saying that for a city that is by the sea (sound), Seattle doesn’t have a good seafood restaurant, just touristy places selling over cooked alder planked salmon. I think maybe now, it finally has a place where Seattleites can eat good fish.