Convergence Zone
Pagliacci Pizza has been serving up slices and sodas from its Queen Anne location, on the corner of Queen Anne Ave. and Mercer, for twenty years this week. To celebrate, the pizzeria will serve up even more slices and sodas -- but at 1988 prices.
By Geoff Carter | June 19, 2008
There's no questioning Joe Fugere's Italian blood. Were it not for his great-grandparents, Pietro and Filomena Costanzo, who immigrated from Italy to Seattle in 1911, he wouldn't be here. And his thriving pizzerias answer to no less an authority than the Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana (VPN), an Italian governmental entity that to date has blessed fewer than 20 American restaurants with its stamp of adequate Italian-ness.
By Cody Ellerd | January 29, 2008
Life Behind Bars
I work within a few steps of the soon-to-debut South Lake Union Trolley ... er, Streetcar. Like so many who work in the Cascade ... oops, I mean South Lake Union area, I will soon be able to hop the streetcar at lunchtime and dine at the upper-crust establishments in Westlake Center: They have a McDonald's and a Sbarro.
By Geoff Carter | October 16, 2007
Zayda Buddy's shows real promise. They don't go overboard on the cheese, and the slices are nice and tender; you can easily cut them with a fork, if that's your thing. The regular cheeseburger comes with your choice of cheddar, American, blue, provolone, pepper jack or Velveeta. The "stuffed burger" bypasses the cheese decision and stuffs the patty itself with blue cheese and bacon. And the deep-fried hamburger patty is exactly what you think it is: a breaded beef patty that's deep-fried and served with caramelized onions and brown gravy.
By Geoff Carter | September 27, 2007
A former warehouse. A banquet hall. An airplane hangar. When I heard Via Tribunali was opening a Queen Anne restaurant, I thought for sure it would be in a massive space that would absorb the throngs who regularly wait more than an hour for a seat at the authentic Neapolitan pizzeria on Capitol Hill.
By Cody Ellerd | July 5, 2007
Convergence Zone
We've got to take the good with the bad. On the one hand, Paul Allen's Vulcan firm has dug so many holes in South Lake Union that it has rendered the neighborhood very nearly impassable. Streetcar track construction is commencing apace on both sides of Westlake, construction cranes are springing up at every point of the compass and you could set your watch by the gravel trucks rolling through local streets. Vulcan couldn't have made a bigger mess in SLU if it had somehow goaded the Klingons into blasting holes in it.
By Geoff Carter | May 21, 2007
