The food in Seattle is sublime. Especially if you like Pacific Rim fusion food, with an emphasis on the Asian side of the rim. One excellent spot we ate on a recent visit was this restaurant. They had wonderful cocktails. The one that I had read about was the Watermelon Chili Martini, but what ended up being the table favorite was the Basil Lemon Drop--minced basil added to the traditional vodka, triple sec, and lemon juice mixture.
The meal was remarkable from start (the cocktails) to finish. our waitress let us know when we were getting into too much food, and she stopped us right at the edge of the junction between sated and stuffed.
The appetizer that you cannot skip is the squid sate--it is grilled to perfection, it is plentiful (easy to share, even with a big table) and full of flavor senasations. The meatball sate is good, and the prawns were as well, but the squid won, hands down.
The Vietnames crepe (as they call it--you may have had it as a 'pancake' in the past) is also exceptionally good--ask for a second plate of herbs and lettuce, because there isn't nearly enough to properly balance the crepe contents with the mint, basil, and then wrap it in a lettuce leaf. The Asian emphasis on salty, sweet, tart, and spicy is well represented in this dish. So next time you are in Seattle, give this place a whirl--it is downtown, near the convention center, at 1901 2nd Ave.
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