“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds” goes the famous quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson, a quote people like to invoke when they are worried they may be looking wishy-washy.

It would be nice though, wouldn’t it, if local restaurants could be a little more consistent? If happy hours didn’t get switched up every other week? If brunch served wasn’t offered one Sunday, taken away the next?

But we tolerate such things, believing the constant switch-ups are made out of necessity, out of an effort to stay alive in a tough business during a yuck economic era. Taste at SAM, for instance, is a restaurant whose fate is not only tied to the fickle habits of local diners, but also the city’s art museum. “Taste is Taking a Siesta!” read an announcement on the restaurant’s website back in January, a rather euphemistic take on a furlough that was foisted upon the Seatle Art Museum. (Both SAM and Taste reopened in mid-February.)

More recently, Taste announced that it was changing its hours, ostensibly in order to compliment those at the museum. It will now be open Wednesday through Saturday from 11am to 9pm and Sunday from 11am to 4pm. Other changes: “our slightly modified dining space and lounge areas created to evoke a more comfortable atmosphere,” and new seasonal menus.