A little surprised by this place, located in a quirky building off the downtown mall the food is good, some of the dishes seem to have 1-2 too many ingredients in them but the overall execution is fine. The pricing is a little higher then say Bizou or Maya but it’s not too far off. I would go back.
Month: August 2009
One of the strategies for OSX on non-supported machines has been to try and run it on VMWare as a virtual machine. For the last few years this has been quite difficult as the the virtual hardware never quite matched up to the physical hardware which was required by OSX. Well when VMWare finally supported OSX server on VMWare Fusion it opened the floodgates. While VMWare only support this combination on Apple hardware and OSX server only, other VMWare products use the same underlying virtual layer (version 7 if you’re wondering) it was only a matter of time for people to figure out how to run OSX on other physical platforms. Almost everything works for me, sound is still choppy but performance is adequate–honestly it’s a little slow but bearable.
I think the most amazing thing is that you can take the VM once it is built, copy the files to another machine and start it up using the free VMWare Player! For you reference VMWare virtual layer 7 is in VMWare Player 2.5, VMWare Workstation 6.5, VMWare Server 2, vSphere 4 and VMWare Fusion 2 (but Fusion only runs on OSX so this is a why bother combination). I’ve only tested on Player, Workstation, Server but the other ones should work.
I’ve been eating with a vegetarian the last few weeks and in Seattle a dependable choice is Indian. There are plenty of them but we’ve narrowed it to Spice Route as our go to option. They serve a variety of Indian options from formal to snack food. They make something called an idly which i had never had before, it’s basically rice flour dough that’s steamed–like a chinese steamed bun without the filling. There is not much flavor but you dip it in a sauce. The vadas are also fantastic–they are a lentil flour based deep fried ‘doughnut.’
On our last visit we also discovered the trick to getting the tandoori roti the way we like it, ask for it a little well done and thinner then normal. It will be about 50% bigger then the normal ones (because it’s thinner when put in the oven), but it will have a nice char and be cooked all the way through. The spice level is ok but you have to push them if you want something extra spicy. Clientele are mostly Indians (if that makes a difference) and they are located next to an Indian grocery store if you need to pick up provisions for home. I would and plan on going back on my next visit to Seattle.
This place is a little strange in a number of ways. First it’s just past the ‘developed’ section of downtown Bellevue, tucked into the back corner of a shopping center next to an older post office. Second it’s really small and the people eating here are all chinese. The only english i heard was when i ordered my food (i can’t order in chinese, even if i look it). Great taiwanese style chinese food, they have a nice pork ‘burger’ which is pork belly, pickled mustard and peanuts on a steam bun ‘roll’. It’s not as sophisticated as the one at Momofuku but it’s much more honest. The noodle soup was ok, needed more spice but the noodles themselves were nice and chewy. I need to go back with a bigger group. It’s busy though, even on a thursday nite i had to wait about 30 minutes for a table at 7pm.
Small and busy fish and chips show in Alki WA (a little town across the water from downtown seattle). Fish and fried oysters were well cooked and fresh. The pricing is quite reasonable, not the best i’ve ever had but hardly anything to complain about. I would go back.
I’ve got a batch of restaurant feedback from some recent trips to Seattle. This is an upscale seafood restaurant in Bellevue near the Microsoft offices. It’s a nice room, good food but for the price it better be. They have good sushi but it feels a little wierd since it’s not a japanese sushi place (which there are plenty of in Seattle). I would go back but it’s quite expensive, value ratio is low.