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The Prime Seattle Restaurant Neighborhood You May Be Overlooking

Now if only we could do something about the parking.

Kathryn Robinson
Author: Kathryn Robinson
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Straight-up French at Pomerol. In Fremont.

When it comes to neighborhoods with strong gravitational pull on gastronomes, you may immediately think Capitol Hill, Ballard, Pioneer Square.

Time to add Fremont.

In the last few years it’s drawn the Whale Wins, Joule, Rock Creek Seafood and Spirits, Cochon, Agrodolce, and Uneeda Burger. Which themselves joined classics like Art of the Table, Revel, Paseo, and Brad’s Swingside Cafe–the last set to close, sniff, early next year.

(And of course there was the late great Dot’s Deli, which overnight went from center of the Center of the Universe to fond frankfurter memory.)

And I know you’ll tell me what I’m leaving out.

Now add Pomerol, a straitlaced French stalwart from the classicist who brought us Portage on Queen Anne and June in Madrona, Vuong Loc. Nothing trendy about this place: just a wood-fired grill, lots of meat, and busy-in-a-good-way desserts.

Read my Pomerol review in the latest Seattle Met.

 




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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.