Comments on: Restaurant moving into Olsen’s spot on Market

By: John

John — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:27:28 +0000

They moved two doors down. Someone saw some old stoves in Kavu's old digs.

http://www.myballard.com/2009/06/17/kavu-prepar...

By: LBB

LBB — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:41:32 +0000

Why don't you want to support Than bros?

By: LBB

LBB — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:31:19 +0000

Kavu's gone??

By: Jesse

Jesse — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 11:09:33 +0000

whoa. what an incredibly offensive post.

By: Schu

Schu — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:33:01 +0000

We'll miss Olsen's… Why don't they just tear down the entire building and put up more ugly condos, and save us the debate?!

By: Zack

Zack — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 23:10:50 +0000

Rizzo's French Dip… Yummmmmm!

By: Black_Sheep

Black_Sheep — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:54:22 +0000

A racist epitaph would be ok.

By: SPG

SPG — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:29:19 +0000

blech! Kimchi is disgusting.

By: SeaSpider

SeaSpider — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:37:30 +0000

Good one! I can't think of any Korean joints in Ballard. Hopefully one of the sushi or burger places will close up and be replaced with a Korean restaurant.

By: Landry

Landry — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:23:51 +0000

I believe it's cardamom and star anise, and I think it's lovely. More for me!

By: Landry

Landry — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:18:09 +0000

Korean. I needs me a hot pot as soon as the weather changes…

By: SPG

SPG — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:21:29 +0000

Only the ones that can afford it or bought in early, most of them are down in Georgetown and out in West Seattle.

By: SPG

SPG — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:20:00 +0000

First, it's epithet, not epitaph.
I'm reluctant to revive the Old/New Ballard crap, but I do find it interesting that as a member of the Old Ballard crowd, you cling to prejudice against anyone not born in the neighborhood as a shining example of how you're not prejudiced.

By: RH

RH — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:49:36 +0000

“Don't want to support Than Bros”…?? I'm afraid to ask, but why might that be?

By: Mememe

Mememe — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:06:33 +0000

Pho Vietnam's broth had no flavor the 3 times I tried it (I really did try to like it!) I don't want to support Than Bros but they have the best pho in ballard. Monkey bridge's broth had waaay too much cinnamon and anise.

By: Crazy Greek

Crazy Greek — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:12:33 +0000

Lamb, moosecka ke ena micro salata!

By: boardbrown

boardbrown — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:38:54 +0000

Sounds like I need to give up this architecture thing and get into the pho biz.

By: Silver

Silver — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:58:51 +0000

Maybe we just hit them on a good night.

By: Ernie_98107

Ernie_98107 — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:58:24 +0000

By: Ballardmom

Ballardmom — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:53:30 +0000

The latest one I've heard is Ballard is where the old punk rockers go to domesticate.

By: Ballardmom

Ballardmom — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:51:57 +0000

There's hip-hop in Ballard? That would be nice …

By: Ballardmom

Ballardmom — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:50:57 +0000

I'd like to have a BoJangles up here. I like their biscuits cooked in chicken grease. Seriously. It's the only fast food restaurant I like. Also, believe it or not, I had some really good fried chicken from QFC on 15th.

By: NoraBell

NoraBell — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:26:33 +0000

Normally I would agree, but I just found out Ballard has pie. :-)

By: Idle activist

Idle activist — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:14:45 +0000

What is a Ballard racist? Is that when a Dane disses a Swede?

Nothing more amusing than when new Ballard people, in 98% white Ballard, start throwing around the racist epitaph. Afterall, you can tell the new folks here are all liberal and tolerant: they'll let any minority cook for them.

By: Idle activist

Idle activist — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:09:44 +0000

Yes, now it's only 98% white. But with tolerant, white liberals who love diversity……in cuisine.

By: SPG

SPG — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:06:50 +0000

Really? I tried them out when they opened and thought it so bad, so incredibly insultingly bad, that I still get annoyed just walking past their door to get a coffee from Fiore.

By: rob3rt

rob3rt — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:48:55 +0000

Diners = bad diet.

have a salad and lay off the dairy and meat.

By: SweetRose

SweetRose — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:20:33 +0000

Oh yes! Ezell's is better than my mothers and she agrees. You can smell it along 23rd. Nom!

By: SweetRose

SweetRose — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:16:56 +0000

The creampuffs come from the French influence in Vietnamese culture. They are traditionally served in Vietnam.

By: SeaSpider

SeaSpider — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:02:02 +0000

Here's the difference: the population of Vietnam is well over 80 million and the population of Greece is over 10 million. The population of Jamaica is less than 3 million. Also there are more Greek-Americans and Vietnamese-Americans than there are Jamaican-Americans.

To be clear, I love Jamaican food – especially goat and bulla bread – and got to sample quite a bit of it when I worked with the Jamaican military years ago. Still, it is a small place and the cuisine hasn't exactly proliferated the way Greek or Vietnamese has (which is a shame).