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Thursday, February 21, 2013

Chow Bar Sajor Opens This Evening, and Here's a Look at the Menu

Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 11:56 AM

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Matt Dillon's Bar Sajor (pronounced SIGH-your) opens today at 4 p.m. in Pioneer Square, on Occidental Park at Jackson (next to Temple Billiards for your pool-shooting convenience). It's a bar in the Spanish or Portuguese sense of being a bar, Dillon says, "a casual place for simple food"—one where you stop by for lunch (which starts on Monday) or after work, and have a conversation and a drink and a snack or supper, instead of, say, drinking until you can't see straight at 2 a.m. (Pioneer Square's already set for that). The space is open and airy and lovely, and the wood-fired rotisserie, which will hold dozens of burnishing chickens, is all ready to go. (My brother says that in Mexico these kinds of rotisseries are nicknamed "dog TVs.")

This is Matt Dillon of Sitka & Spruce and the Corson Building (and Food & Wine's 10 best new chefs in 2007, and James Beard Best Chef Northwest 2012).

Here is part of a preliminary version of the menu:

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More menu (plus what the hell a chuleton de buey is) after the jump. EXCITING.

A chuleton de buey is a big-ass Spanish-style grilled ribsteak for two.

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Chicken cooked on rotisserie... Costco $4.99 done just prefect every time.

Posted by Procat on February 24, 2013 at 4:39 PM

Restaurant reviewers -- who never pay for meals out of their own pockets -- get tingles in their nether regions writing about places like this.

Posted by bigyaz on February 21, 2013 at 10:37 PM

Meh, 8.99 will get you a delicious roasted bird, with choice of lemon rosemary, or plain salt and pepper or herbs de provence, at Whole Foods. For that much dough, I want something better than a chicken

Posted by $martyPants on February 21, 2013 at 8:26 PM

1/Sargon: I understand that spending money is very hip and trendy and It's done very well in DC.

There are a lot of people in this area who make a shitload of money. Prices at a place like this are nothing to them.

Posted by Roma on February 21, 2013 at 5:32 PM

@15 - and you paid how much for that soft opening preview dinner? This is seriously too expensive for chicken regardless of the pedigree albeit the rent is probably high, yadda yadda yadda. Does that mean the prices at the Courson Bldg. should be less because the rent is less?

For some delicious bird, go up the street to Rainer and Charles at San Fernando Roasted Chicken. Or for that matter, get it fried at the Shell station on Beacon Ave. (also about 10 minutes away) for this...yet another expensive Seattle eatery.

Posted by snacktruck on February 21, 2013 at 4:09 PM

Had the chicken at a preview dinner, I am still thinking about it days later. It is fucking delicious. And, the cod! So good.

Le Pichet clocks in at $36, Ma'Ono sells their delectable bird for $39. A good quality chicken at the grocer will set you back $20 and it's raw! $40 for Matt's juicy yardbird is totally worth it.

Posted by kerri harrop

on February 21, 2013 at 3:40 PM

That tea sounds amazing. Good for headaches and cramps, I'll bet. No thank you to the $40 chicken though!

Posted by zobot

on February 21, 2013 at 2:31 PM

@11, a casual bar in Portugal doesn't have to pay Seattle rents or wages.

Hey, by submitting this content, I had to agree to The Stranger's terms of use. That's new. I wonder if that's a result of me telling 5280 to shoot himself in the head.

Posted by Fnarf

on February 21, 2013 at 2:20 PM

This is not a menu compatible with being a "casual place with simple food".

Posted by zippy_the_pinhead on February 21, 2013 at 1:59 PM

@10: so only $4 difference between whole chickens? maybe it's not so outrageous, then. a whole chicken can feed 4. bet it doesn't cost that much in a casual bar in portugal, though.

i love my weber genesis grill with it's rotisserie attachment more every day.

Posted by Max Solomon on February 21, 2013 at 1:46 PM

Considering I can go down the street and spend 36 on a WHOLE roasted chicken at Pichet. When the FUCK did a side of vegetables become 9 dollars? That isn't rhetorical! I really want someone to answer it for me, because it seems to be on point at a slew of new eateries. Yet, standby's like Tilikum have amazing veg sides for FIVE FUCKING DOLLARS. I can't wait for carrots to be "m/p". For fucks sake.

Posted by PBJ on February 21, 2013 at 1:12 PM

If you see Will, tell him about the cider, and away he'll go.

Posted by rob!

on February 21, 2013 at 1:03 PM

Dried ham from Iowa. Who knew?

Posted by derek_erdman

on February 21, 2013 at 1:03 PM

80 bucks for chuleton and Basque cider? That amount of money will pay for two meals at a proper cider house in the Basque Country, with all you can drink cider and loads of food (chuleton, cod omelette, cod and green peppers and walnuts, cheese and membrillo (quince) for dessert).

Posted by neska on February 21, 2013 at 1:02 PM

$40 dollars for a rotisserie chicken? Completely reasonable.

Posted by muji tuve on February 21, 2013 at 12:50 PM

Sorry, but no.

Posted by very bad homo on February 21, 2013 at 12:47 PM

If you can afford to eat here you aren't paying nearly enough in taxes.

Seriously...fucking outrageous prices!!! They better be amazing and attract the Amazon crowd or it's gonna close by Christmas

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger on February 21, 2013 at 12:43 PM

The duck egg is also a vegetable, which I'm pretty sure is not true...

Posted by ScienceNerd on February 21, 2013 at 12:38 PM

think a rotisserie chicken is $40 on mexican dog tv?

i'm sure it's great but sweet jesus, the price.

Posted by Max Solomon on February 21, 2013 at 12:36 PM

A duck egg cooked in the oven with some beans is SIXTEEN DOLLARS! This is a joke right? I understand that spending money is very hip and trendy and It's done very well in DC. I guess this means that it's better to cater to the 1% than the other percent because the 99% won't pay $16 for a duck egg and some beans. See everyone thinks only of those with money.

Posted by Sargon Bighorn on February 21, 2013 at 12:25 PM