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Dine Around Seattle Starts Tomorrow

Three courses for $30, all March long.

Posted by: Kathryn Robinson on Feb 28, 2011 at 09:00AM 0 Comments

Photo: Lindsay Borden

Lecosho’s signature porchetta, a stunner

It started over a decade ago, known then as 25 (participating restaurants) for $25.

Now it’s Dine Around Seattle, with 45 participating restaurants, each serving three-course dinners for $30 (and some serving lunches for $15), Sundays through Thursdays.

Some old favorites are participating, from Ray’s Boathouse to Stumbling Goat Bistro to 35th Street Bistro to Nishino. Also some relative newbies, like Toulouse Petit Kitchen and Lounge and Bellevue’s Lot No. 3 and Hunger in Fremont.

And my latest personal favorite, Lecosho on the Harbor Steps.

Happy dining.

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It’s Dine Around Seattle Time, People

(Pssst: Here’s where you’ll get the best deals.)

Posted by: Kathryn Robinson on Nov 01, 2010 at 09:00AM 1 Comments

Alright, full disclosure: We’re helping sponsor the thing.

But we wouldn’t lend our name to it if Dine Around Seattle weren’t a solid promotion full of screamin’ deals for our readers.

The setup, in case you’ve been living in a neighboring galaxy: Every year during March and November, diners get three-course dinners for $30 at participating restaurants, Mondays through Thursdays. (Some also do lunches for $15.)

That means it starts tonight.

A good deal in some restaurants, three courses for $30 is a fantastic deal in others. Lecosho for instance—Matt’s in the Market founder Matt Janke’s Harbor Steps sensation—is so new your DAS visit will grant you foodie cred that’s dang near priceless.

Outlying destinations, like the spendy Palisade in Magnolia, Barking Frog in Woodinville, and Salish Lodge at the falls in Snoqualmie, offer their patented brand of special occasion dining at a fraction of the usual tab.

As for Seattle neighborhood charmers like 35th Street Bistro, Eva, and Stumbling Goat Bistro …well, sometimes you just need an excuse to cast a new eye upon an old favorite. Sounds like a good deal to us.

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Dine Around Seattle…

…starts a week from today

Posted by: Kathryn Robinson on Feb 22, 2010 at 09:00AM 0 Comments

The dining promotion formerly known as 25 for $25 went up a five-spot a few years back, changed its name to Dine Around Seattle, and firmly fixed itself upon the November and March calendars of Seattleites who wish their favorite restaurants weren’t so spendy.

It consists of three courses for $30, every Sunday-through-Thursday in March, at 28 joints across the region. Some do 15-buck lunches too. Great way to sample the places you’ve been hearing about but haven’t made it to yet.

Like Bastille, the gorgeous new Gallic sensation in Ballard. Or Artisanal Brassserie at the swanky Bravern in Bellevue.

It’s also a good way to stay current on the many joints enjoying new energy in their kitchens. That’s why I want to check out Ponti under the new leadership of returning superstar chef Alvin Binuya. I want to go back to creamy ART at downtown’s high-end Four Seasons Hotel and find out exactly chef Kerry Sear has tweaked the dining program.

If I feel like driving I’ll head east to Snoqualmie’s Salish Lodge & Spa Dining Room to see what the new team out there is cooking up. (That new team includes Matthew Mina, the hotshot who won the coveted top toque post at The Hunt Club only to leave about 15 minutes later.)

Or maybe I’ll stick closer to home, casting my gimlet eye upon joints whose owners are distracted at the moment building new projects. Tom Douglas is busy completing his ownership of downtown, with new restaurants to work on in Pike Place Market and South Lake Union, so I want to make sure Lola and Dahlia Lounge and Etta’s Seafood aren’t feeling the inattention.

Ditto Steelhead Diner, that local Northwest comfort-food spot in Pike Place Market, whose owners Kevin and Terresa Davis are currently morphing the burnished husk of Oceanaire into another seafood destination called Blueacre.

Where I’ll go the other 14 nights? Good thing I have another 19 spots to choose from.

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