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Welcome to Turkey Week

What better way to celebrate than with chicken?

Spatchcock at Hitchcock.

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In keeping with Monday coolness in other restaurants around town, Hitchcock Restaurant on Bainbridge is firing up its spatchcock tradition—starting tonight.

The method of splitting the chicken, removing its backbone, and grilling it flat (in a wood-fired oven)—you might call it butterflying—results in a smoky, blistered beaut of a bird, moist from brining. It will come with robust sides, dollar oysters, and fabled cocktails.

Bring the kids; they’re calling it family night. Sounds like Thanksgiving week to me.

 











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.