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If Skillet were a boy, he’d be the most annoying commitment-phobe on the planet.

You know the place; it’s the mobile Airstream trailer that deals its cambazola-bacon jam burgers and fontina poutine and other blissouts from different parking lots every day.

Which parking lots? These ones. In short: Monday Capitol Hill, Tuesday SoDo, Wednesday South Lake Union, Thursday Fremont, Friday Lower Queen Anne, and Saturday Columbia City. Yeah, it’s a gadabout.

And now on Sundays, starting this weekend, they’ll be in West Seattle. In the Key Bank parking lot next to the Farmer’s Market. Woo-hoo West Seattle.

But here’s the commitment news: That “Skillet” sign you keep driving by, the one on Fourth and Main (220 Fourth Ave S) in the ID—-that’s the space they’re getting ready to open as their first bricks-and-mortar operation. “Hopefully we will get final approval by the end of May,” co-owner Joshua Henderson told me.

This, approvers being what they are, means final approval waaaaaay later than May. But isn’t it gratifying to know that a little stability is coming to our cambazola-bacon jam burger life?











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.