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• Jon Davis: citizen of the world, hero of Interbay.

Over in the paper-paper, Thadius Van Landingham urges you to eat at the FINALLY REOPENED Fightin' Cock Roaster in Interbay (Stranger reader-reviewers are crazy about it too):

Why You Should Go to the Fightin' Cock Roaster as Soon as Humanly Possible

...Owner Jon Davis has a hand in everything happening at the Fightin' Cock (or, if you prefer, the Cock Roaster). He built the 300-gallon smoker out back from a secondhand barbecue and an old wood-burning stove he Frankensteined together. He gives instructions to his staff in both Thai and English, counseling one woman to put the knife away and tear the chicken apart with her hands, while showing another that the cheese goes both under and over the beans....

In Bar Exam, the Jolly Roger in Ballard is moving one block south and three blocks east, but not before the international pirates' holiday:

Talk Like a Pirate Day at the Jolly Roger Taproom

...Every chair is full, and those waiting for seats eddy near the entrance, standing around and drinking. "Polygamy Porter," reads one gentleman's T-shirt: "Why have just one?" Occasional single fellows come in to fill up their growlers (take-out beer jugs—though on the high seas, a growler is the kind of enormous wave that can swamp your ship and land you sleeping with the octopuses). A sailor tells an improbable tale of finding a treasure map in a bottle on Whidbey Island, then almost (of course, almost) finding the treasure, and, in the meantime, encountering a frightening man with a hook for a hand. Incredulous protests ensue; he swears up and down it's true....

And in the Happiest Hour, free lobster at O'Asian!

From the archives: People are still commenting on an article from May declaring the end of the bacon trend.

And fresh in Chow tomorrow: Is Delancey's pizza (way out in Ballard) as good as everyone's been saying? Plus: chocolate-plus-liquor as aphrodisiac at Dilettante on Broadway. Also: an interview with the owner of the new crepe cafe Citizen, which people say is great.

Now I am very hungry.