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Posted March 22 at 9:14 am by Mike Seely

The Rainier Ave. institution is all boarded up, says Bottomtipper Jim Schier. Stan's is where I had my last training meal meal (a double bacon cheeseburger) before the Wedgwood Broiler's 72-ounce sirloin challenge. Old-school drive-ins in Seattle are a dinosaur, man. Bummer. The Bottomfeeder curse continues.

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Posted Jan. 31 at 10:18 am by Mike Seely

Remember last week, when we wrote that garnering mention in Bottomfeeder might be a curse on your restaurant? Well, we wrote about this place. Then this happened.

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Posted Jan. 28 at 4:34 pm by Mike Seely

In our ongoing series on pizzerias not named Pagliacci who are willing to deliver hot pie to the rough and tumble portion of West Seattle known as Poverty Gulch (aka Delridge, aka "my neighborhood"), I give you Luciano's, whose Luciano's Special gets high marks for the quality of its onions. Incidentally, Luciano's West Seattle affiliate in the Admiral Junction (they've got a satellite location in Lake City) is about a mile further from my house than the Pagliacci outpost in the Alaska Junction that won't touch my street with a ten-foot Hyundai.

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Posted Jan. 25 at 6:01 pm by Mike Seely

Since we spent yesterday living under a rock (i.e., home sick), we failed to notice until today that Andy's Diner has served its last boxcar special down in SoDo. This makes it the second Bottomfeeder tout to close its doors since the column debuted (the first was Flynn's). Don't call it a curse. Yet.

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Posted Jan. 10 at 10:56 am by Mike Seely

In his recently-launched "Under the Needle" column on Seattle nostalgia, the P.I.'s Mike Lewis — an affable throwback of a journalist who puts his money where his pen is by bartending every Thursday night at the Streamline Tavern on Mercer Street — has a great piece on Bakeman's Cafeteria, a regular haunt of Bottomfeeder's. As Lewis deftly articulates, if you dare visit Bakeman's, quickness is king.

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Posted Aug. 19, 2007 at 10:13 am by Mike Seely

In the months since Bottomfeeder debuted in the pages of the Weekly, we've yet to experience the death of one of the hidden haunts we've profiled. But as we took the scenic route along Airport Way, bound for a Saturday afternoon screening of Superbad (Jonah Hill's good, but Michael Cera is heads and shoulders above any other comic actor in his age group), we witnessed the horror of the passing of Flynn's Cafe, which has been serving up huge sausage sandwiches before sunrise in SoDo for, like, forever. We'd known that the building Flynn's was housed in had been on the block for some time, so this doesn't come as a huge surprise. But still, the place had no real equal in terms of lazy, homespun charm and a matriarch — Barb — who made you feel as though you were eating in your grandmother's kitchen.

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Posted Aug. 16, 2007 at 2:07 pm by Mike Seely

The cast and crew of the Food Network's "Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives" has been shooting all day at Mike's Chili Parlor, for a segment on the historic Ballard restaurant-tavern that is expected to air this Fall. Host Guy Fieri (pictured above with proprietor Mike Semandiris — he's the bald one — photo courtesy of 'Lil Scoop), he of the spiky Smashmouth hairdo and phraseology like "on like Donkey Kong," sweated under the lights alongside Semandiris, his sister, his mother, and his father — all of whom regularly pull shifts at the family biz.

Regulars were drinking before noon, press clips were laminated and affixed in an orderly manner on the wall near the front door, the staff wore black monogrammed shirts, the bar looked as though it had been power-washed, a muscle car was parked in a trailer out front, the Ballard Bridge went up and down repeatedly, and construction workers hammered away in the dusty gulch next to the deck, erecting Scott Clark's controversial retail megaproject. And I had a chili burger the size of a cantaloupe for $6. A beautiful day in the neighborhood, indeed.

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