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Chef Ericka Burke Leaves Oddfellows Cafe

Got a call last night from Ericka Burke, co-founder and chef of Volunteer Park Cafe and consulting chef at the hottest new Capitol Hill commissary, Oddfellows Cafe.

Last Friday, it seems, was her last day at Oddfellows. Trouble with owner, the visionary bar-maker Linda Derschang? “No, no, oh God no,” Burke told me. “Linda’s great. It’s just that Volunteer Park Cafe was suffering a little in my absence. I needed to get back to it.”

Consulting at Oddfellows during the transition will be Matt Dillon of Sitka & Spruce and The Corson Building, who will hold the fort and oversee the search for a new Burke.











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.