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Just a sampling -
Elysian Brewing Company
Fado
Nijo
Uwajimaya
FX
Pyramid
New Orleans
…you get the idea.

It’s a good thing Taco Del Mar is AWESOME!

Brian, good point, but I don’t believe any of those places have meals in the $5-8 range which is what I’m looking for most nights.

…I believe FX stops serving dinner at 7pm. At least I know we’ve been there on a Monday after work and had to leave because they had stopped serving.

I have eaten at the New Orleans a number of times. They have a great deal – $1.50 for a heaping plate of Southern rice&beans. Fills me up. Or you can go with their real meals, which is more than I can eat in one sitting…and they’re not too pricy. Thursday nights at like 7 or 8 is the best time, because there is a free live swing band playing.

there might be a few food options, but being a single female walking around the neighborhood at night freaks me out a bit!

you’d should factor hiring a bodyguard into the price :)

wow is the architecture really worth it to some people? (it being 375k for a studio). For the pleasure of experiencing 5-10 years of viaduct-related construcion and literally living in the shadow of, alternately depending on time of day, the stadium and the existing viaduct. Is that the “urban grot” thing here I must be missing

it’s going to be a tough sell. on the other hand, it isn’t so huge a number of units and to the number of people they need to sell them all it might be worth it. can they re-zone a project by floor? could they run commercial up through the 3rd or 4th if they had to?

they better glaze those windows right…

Other than being an older building I can’t see anything architecturally interesting about it at all. AND if, as it appears, the viaduct is rebuilt bigger, taller, wider..whatever… this will be in a terrible location.

Speaking of the viaduct – why isn’t this a bigger issue on people’s minds here in Seattle? Will someone please explain the magic to me? Tear it down, costs be damned. Why is there any argument whatsoever?

What about the close proximity to the railroad tracks?

I don’t care about the viaduct because I never drive :). That’s the beauty of urban living!

I also work in Pioneer Sq and I also don’t drive…

The beauty of urban living would be greatly enhanced by the its disappearance – and transit has absolutely NOTHING to do with it.

the I.D. a couple blocks up from pioneer square has all the cheap eats you could ever need. if i lived in within walking distance i’d probably weigh 15 lbs more.

The Stranger is all over the viaduct issue. There seems to be at least one post a day with 50+ comments on their ‘slog’.