(My policy was that eggs should stay in cakes and cookies, where they belong.) That’s when I learned I do like them-as long as the yolks are well-blended and well-done, the opposite of how most of the world’s egg-eaters prefer them.
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I tend to order like Meg Ryan’s character in When Harry Met Sally, full of substitutions and special requests, and I thought I didn’t like eggs until graduating from college. They notice my Beavis & Butthead Doc Martens, and help me out when I’m running late for work and in need an extremely quick and delicious sandwich. But I look forward to saying hello to Jan and Andrea.
I often want to be left alone to read and write with coffee at a well-lit table. I’ll admit: I’m not the most gregarious customer. She wants customers to feel like they are family, too. Slimák is the Slovak word for snail, and also the last name of Andrea’s grandfather, who watches over the café from a framed photograph on the wall. “We are very personal with the customers, and become a big family and friends. “We want to bring the neighborhood together,” she told me. Now they have their own place (in addition to staying on with Newsbar), in a neighborhood Andrea describes as “like a vacation” compared to that one near Union Square. Before opening Slimák, they were part-owners of Newsbar on University Place in Manhattan. Andrea is also the café’s executive chef. I went in on opening day and met the friendly couple from Slovakia who run the place, Jan and Andrea Balascak.
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For months, I peered in the windows and thought of the Tom Waits song “ What’s He Building?” Then in June, the sign went up: Slimák, with an image of a snail design on a cup of coffee.Įvery new detail thrilled me: wooden tables that evoke a European bistro, bright red bar stools, a pressed-tin ceiling - and then, one morning, the smell of coffee.
Whenever I see construction in my neighborhood of Sunset Park, my first thought is, I hope it’s a bookstore/café. When it’s close enough that I can still pick up my wireless network, that amplifies my hope that it will be something great. It's enormous, with a horseshoe-shaped bar and a ton of seating for the Amazon crowds in search of breakfast scrambles, lunch bowls, juice, coffee, and after-work drinks.Don’t miss the Chicken Apple Sausage Hash. Queen Anne's lovely house of hearty, pastoral food just debuted a second location at Westlake and Lenora. The dinner menu sounds like full-on restaurant fare, and longtime Zig Zag favorite Erik Hakkinen is designing a bar program that's big on three-ingredient cocktails (Hakkinen himself will be behind the bar Wednesday and Thursday nights as he readies his own spot in Pioneer Square). It's not a shot-and-a-Schlitz sort of joint, more of a chill fireplace and turntable type of place, serving breakfasts of tartines and grain bowls and baked eggs, and Hitchcock Deli sandwich favorites for lunch. He's turning a space next to his original Hitchcock Deli on Bainbridge Island into Bar Hitchcock, due this December. The chef's march down Winslow Way continues.
(Addison dropped his own big news this week, too- he's moving to a critic role at the LA Times.) Brendan McGill's Big News Given the slightly arbitrary number and the immense breadth of his eating, it's pretty cool to see two Seattle spots on the list-not that we needed a reminder that JuneBaby and Bateau are magical places. Best restaurant lists, especially the national ones, come with varying degrees of legitimacy, but few are more credible (or such a pleasure to read) as Bill Addison's annual accounting of 38 essential restaurants across America.
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