Thin Wheat Line is a weekly dive into the pasta bowls of Seattle.Noodle: Fiore con funghiSource: Perche’ No Pasta e Vino, 1319 N. 49th St., 547-0222.Price: $15There are a few restaurants that Seattleites tell me over and over again they love. Dick’s is one. (Frankly, I think Dick’s food is like natto to the Japanese — you have to grow up eating it to find it palatable.) Others: Machiavelli, Le Pichet, Thai Tom. And Perche’ No. Perche’ No’s owners, David and Lily KongAfter more than a decade in Lower Queen Anne, David and Lily Kong moved into rather grander quarters on the south end of Green Lake, eventually closing the first location. Then, in mid February, an electrical fire did $200,000 worth of damage. The fire put them out of business for three months — considering insurance company haggling, permitting inspections, and construction, that seems like a heartbeat — and they reopened May 15.I’ve actually been a little second-generation American pastaIt’s not like Mario Batali’s Italian. Oh, wait. It’s not like Justin Neidermeyer’s Italian.David and Lily Kong’s
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