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Cheap Eats: Elliott Bay Cafe
Friday, June 29, 2001
The atmosphere in the Elliott Bay Cafe always used to be better than the food. It was always worth eating merely decent salads and casseroles, though, for the tradeoffs: Resting at the spacious tables filling the quiet, comfortably brick-walled basement of The Elliott Bay Bookstore during breaks from browsing above.
Now, the food has jumped a few notches with a new remodel, new management and a newly piquant menu. The room hasn’t been too disrupted; the main changes are a longer front counter; a big neon sign advertising coffee; and beepers that blink like a Vegas jackpot when your order is ready.
The new menu is short and refreshingly tilted toward vegetarian food, featuring sandwiches, salads, soups, and baked goods. Try the smoked turkey and havarti on chewy sourdough ($6.25), a good stack of thin-sliced meat whose only lack is that it goes too light on the cranberry preserves. The pastrami sandwich ($6.25) will satisfy basic deli cravings, grilled on rye with sauerkraut, Sswiss, and spicy mustard. The wild-greens house salad ($4.95) was fresh and tart, and its lemon rosemary vinaigrette could become an addiction.
Enjoy a good selection of teas ($1.47 for a big mug) and decadent desserts; chocolate fiends should try the mocha-cherry-chip cookie ($1.45) and a chocolate-nut brownie ($1.75) that’s as classic as the better literature above.
Elliott Bay Cafe, 101 S. Main St., 206-682-6664.cq Open 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday.
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