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A New Chef for Downtown’s Art Restaurant

Jelle Vandenbroucke’s handiwork appears on the menu starting Thursday night.

Posted by: Christopher Werner on Apr 07, 2011 at 04:41PM 0 Comments

New Art chef Jelle Vandenbroucke.

News leaked in early February that Kerry Sear had recruited a new toque for his kitchen at Art. Today the intel is official: Jelle Vandenbroucke is on board at the downtown restaurant in the Four Seasons.

Sear, who sold his vaunted Belltown restaurant Cascadia to take the top gig at Art when it opened, will maintain the title of “executive chef and director of food and beverage;” that means he’ll oversee the Art kitchen, plus special events, in-room dining, and weddings, reads a release.

Vandenbroucke is schooled in French cuisine and worked at two Michelin-awarded restaurants (Hertog Jan in Bruges (that’s in Belgium) and the UK’s Charlton House) and two other Four Seasons prior to moving to Seattle.

ART boasts jaw-dropping views and is certainly a favorite among the happy hour crowd but has struggled to find its identity as a fine-dining destination. We’ll see if Vandenbroucke can’t change that.

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Tags: Art Restaurant, Seattle Chefs, Downtown Seattle Restaurants

Art at the Four Seasons Offers Dinner Specials

Crab, steak, organic, fried chicken, ice cream sundaes…it’s all here, folks

Posted by: Kathryn Robinson on Jul 28, 2010 at 09:00AM 0 Comments

Art Restaurant downtown is offering a 7 Days of Art dining promotion.

Feel like organic tonight?

As part of its new 7 Days of Art promotion, Art Restaurant at downtown’s Four Seasons Hotel offers a market-to-table organic feast tonight and upcoming Wednesdays, for $30 per diner.

Assuming tomorrow you’ll feel like crab, the fun continues, as Thursdays the schtick is the Crab Duel TV Tray, ($32 per person). Diners will sample four crab dishes—on TV trays, including King crab leg cocktail; Dungeness crab legs; warm Dungeness crab pasta; and grilled King crab.

As for the rest of the week:

—Friday Night Flight Night ($15 – $35), with flights of three wines.

—Steak Saturday ($44), with four different cuts of steak and seasonal condiments.

—Sunday Family Dinner, ($100 for 4), featuring roast chicken, pan gravy, and all the fixins—including apple pie a la mode for dessert.

—Wine all you Want Monday, with 50% off all bottles of wine ordered for dinner. (With 160 choices, this one’s the critic’s pick, folks…a fantastic deal.)

—Big.Chill Tuesday, ($6 – $20), with all manner of ice cream and sorbet flavors and sundaes, including an ice cream tasting for the whole table.

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Tags: Special Dinners, Art Restaurant