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Bravo Boat Street!

And now, the first in an occasional series we’re calling Wait Watchers, where we’ll give a shout-out to servers both lame and game…whenever we can, by name.

Today’s applause goes to Lauretta at Boat Street Kitchen, whose warm smile and efficient to-go service made our whole lunch the other day. (The lunch consisted of a serving of Amaretto Bread Pudding. So The Tablehopper had a craving. Lauretta thoughtfully asked if I wanted it warmed or wanted to warm it myself at home. Meaningful gesture.)

Boat Street’s got to be one of The Tablehopper’s top five Seattle restaurants, but jeesh, the service is variable. Lauretta’s was pure gold. Thank you, Lauretta.











Kathryn Robinson
Kathryn Robinson
Senior Writer Seattle native Kathryn Robinson, award-winning restaurant critic and senior writer at Seattle Met, has been anonymously reviewing restaurants for over 30 years—first as editor of the Best Places guidebook series, then as staff critic at Seattle Weekly and contributing critic at The Seattle Times and Seattle magazine.  Midcareer she spent a year-long sabbatical studying comparative religion as a Knight Fellow at Stanford University where she had been an undergrad 10 years earlier, gaining a knowledge base she now calls upon for her monthly “Back Fence” column on our collective urban existence and the meaning it holds for our personal lives. In her off hours she is a partner and a parent—which means she has no off hours.