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Seattle Restaurants Open Mondays

Used to be most fine-dining restaurants went dark Monday nights. No more. Here are a few high-end restaurants that are open on the night we least want to cook.

Kathryn Robinson
Author: Kathryn Robinson
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Wouldn’t you like to be at Canlis next Monday night?

Looking for a Monday night out not long ago, my sister despaired of finding a good meal.

What she didn’t know is that the old dark-Monday norm has been eroded by the recession, as part of many restaurants’ strategy to maximize return on their overhead. (This explains the rise in happy hour and brunch as well.)

 I told her she could not only splurge Mondays at such bucksy destinations as Canlis, Ray’s Boathouse, Book Bindery, Salish Lodge, or El Gaucho. She could get sushi at Shiro’s or Nishino, tapas at Harvest Vine, steaks at John Howie or The Met Grill, farm-to-table at Tilth, and extraordinary Piedmontese Italian at Cascina Spinasse (whose day off is Tuesday).

 




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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.