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Alicia Fusion Bistro Brings Vietnamese Food to Leschi

Fusion’s tough to pull off. How’d they do?

Kathryn Robinson
Author: Kathryn Robinson
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Scallops with corn and onion soubise at Alicia Fusion Bistro.

Never an auspicious neighborhood to be caught with an appetite, lakeside Leschi now has a promising new Vietnamese destination: Alicia Fusion Bistro.

Owned by the family who gave us the Green Leaf restaurants (ID and Belltown), Alicia has upped the culinary stock of a neighborhood that’s long had to choose between a spendy steakhouse, a lackluster boozy bistro, and whatever Asian joint has occupied the revolving door storefront just north.

That’s the spot Alicia now occupies, offering solid fusion and Vietnamese classics, including a lemongrassy clam ragu and $10 banh mis. Edible? Worth it?  Read my Alicia Fusion Bistro review in the December issue of Seattle Met.

And though there’s no lake view from the polished candlelit room, you are well positioned for Christmas Ships (which are scheduled for Madrona Park Saturday, December 20.)

 

 




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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.