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News & ArtsMonday, October 11, 2010
Housekeeping / Drunk I Will KICK YOUR ASS at Air Hockey
Posted by Megan Seling on Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 1:27 PM
- Kristen Blush
Here's what Dave Schmader said about the food after Highline first opened (bolds are mine):
The Highline menu is the product of a visionary vegan brain trust, made up of cooks with connections to some of Seattle's most revered vegan eateries. (One Squid & Ink/Highline proprietor/chef also helped establish the Wayward Cafe; bar manager Kempley got his start making ginger beer and infused boozes at Cafe Flora.) Highline's menu is packed with seitan, tempeh, and soy creations designed to replicate the greatest hits of pub grub. The Crazy Train sandwich ($8) features breaded soy chicken, lettuce, tomato, onion, and ranch dressing on grilled bread; the TLT ($8) features tempeh bacon, lettuce, tomatoes, and mayo on grilled bread. Both are garishly delicious. Part of this is the quality of the vegetables (vegans care about things like good tomatoes and onions), but nothing can account for the hot, sloppy, comfort-foodiness other than vegan voodoo. The illusion-building of vegan food—placing this flavor next to that texture to create the desired meaty/creamy/cheesy effect—is a delicate art. (Excessive soy is as repugnant as undercooked pork.) But, as Kempley says, "We've all been doing it for a long time, and we've figured a lot of stuff out."
And! It'll be happy hour, which means there are $5 food specials and $1 off all bottles and cans of beer.
So come join us at 6 pm at Highline! Drink cheap beer, eat great food, and get your ass handed to you over the air hockey table. Unless, of course, you're chicken.
1
love the highline! i'll miss it this month but hope to see you next month. somebody get the french dip thingy for me. it's awesome.
2
Just don't challenge me to Ms. PacMan or I'll show you what all those long years in the Army taught me, Megan.
3
Pfft. I don't believe you. Not that you wouldn't be a worthy opponent, but an ass-kicking? No. If you beat me, it will be a narrowly-decided contest heavily influenced by luck and possibly a defective table.
9
isn't it a little redundant to state that a totally vegan restaurant has "vegan and vegetarian food?"
10
Wow, a post on veg*n/veg*nism that doesn't involve a snarky joke/hit a vegans or vegetarians. Oh wait, "Unless, of course, you're chicken." I see what you did there (insert shifty-eyed squinty pic).
11
Tofu tastes like murdered soybeans.
If you video them in slo-mo, you can hear their cries when they die.
If you video them in slo-mo, you can hear their cries when they die.
12
Hot damn! I love the Highline! The Crazy Train is super delicious and they make a super mean whiskey ginger. Can't wait til Thursday!!
13
@9 You're right. I had thought some of their stuff was just vegetarian and not vegan, but it turns out that it's ALL vegan. My bad. The post has been updated.
14
Oh surely you jest. I WILL KICK YOUR ASS AT AIRHOCKEY ANY TIME YOU FEEL LIKE TAKIN A TRIP TO THE SCHOOL OF SWEET PAIN.
16
I've been meaning to check out the Highline. Thanks for encouraging me to check out places I would never go were it not for Slog for the last 3 years now.
18
I hate to break it to you, Stranger, but Highline's food is awful. As a lover of all types of cuisine, who also regularly cooks for a vegan boyfriend, I must say that the food I have had at the Highline (which I have tried multiple times) is hands down inedible. No only that, but the bartenders air on the snobby/pretentious side and the room is just too big for how few people are ever in the place. Even on a Friday or Saturday night! Megan Seling, please get your tastebuds checked.
20
vegans care about things like good tomatoes and onions
Well, fine, but personally I care more about having at least one vegan-friendly menu item at omnivore restaurants.
So, trivia, cakearoke, and Slog happy? Busy week at Highline. Oh, and you forgot about the pinball machine.
Well, fine, but personally I care more about having at least one vegan-friendly menu item at omnivore restaurants.
So, trivia, cakearoke, and Slog happy? Busy week at Highline. Oh, and you forgot about the pinball machine.
21
Unfortunately, you can't technically call it an air hockey table if it doesn't blow air... It's a table of tragic disappointment. BUT, Wildrose recently got a REAL WORKING AIR HOCKEY TABLE!! You should head there to duke it out. Plus, the bartender will play winner, and wipe you off the table.
22
13, Sorry for being a pain in the ass, I'm crazy about details.
Glad y'all chose such a fantastic/new/vegan place to for slog happy, I might actually show up for once....
Glad y'all chose such a fantastic/new/vegan place to for slog happy, I might actually show up for once....
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