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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Chow Now Open: New Places for Stuffing Faces

Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 1:52 PM

Look—it's tons more new Seattle restaurants and bars! Currently, we can recommend going to Five Fish Bistro and eating the Peacemaker, which is a po'boy with deep-fried oysters (with not-too-heavy cornmeal breading), bacon, and cheddar cheese. (The lore of the name is that this is the sandwich that drunk guys who stayed out late in New Orleans would bring home to their wives to make the peace.) It is all put on the right kind of roll, and the results are fairly gigantic and very good. Five Fish Bistro is also having a grand-opening party with free snacks today from 4 to 8 p.m. Anyways...

Maono: Chef Mark Fullers family on Kauai back in the day.

Ma'ono
Ma'ono: Chef Mark Fuller's family on Kauai back in the day.

· MA'ONO FRIED CHICKEN & WHISKY in West Seattle: In Hawaiian, "ono" means "delicious," and "ma" is a prefix that means going toward, facing, or making. Ma'ono in West Seattle is the reincarnation of the great Spring Hill, meaning now you can get chef (and Kauai native) Mark Fuller's extremely popular fried chicken (formerly just Mondays) and awesome saimin (formerly just brunch) every night. The new menu also has lots of "mid-Pacific-inspired" dishes that look very delicious-making.

· OFF THE REZ on the road: Off the Rez is a food truck serving fry bread (naked or with honey, or cinnamon sugar, or homemade lemon curd...), Indian tacos (chili verde, 10-hour-smoked pulled pork, etc.), quinoa succotash, and more...

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