Hey folks,

I want to reveal my favorite restaurant in the world.  Bizzarro Italian Cafe in the formermly overpaid Wallingford neighborhood of Seattle.  The reason you may not have heard of it is beacuse us regulars didn’t want other people going there.  You see it is so perfect, and too many people knew it.  You had to wait for a table, Bizzarro does not believe in reservations.  Sometimes you had to wait 45 minutes, and I would wait.  The staff is super nice, and would let you drink wine while you wait, which is a bonus.  Once, we showed up roughly the same time as some other regulars, who recently became engaged, and it was Prosecco on the house for all of us while we waited. 

So why let you in on the secret now?  Well, thanks to our fine economy I am worried about Bizzarro.  It is one of these stories people love.  The long time, hard working, know-your-favorite-dish-when-they-see-you-walk-in-the-door employees,  bought the place recently.  These wonderful people brought the best dish ever back to the menu, the Forest Floor Frenzy.  The last 3 times I’ve been there, I have not had to wait.  It was not full.  There will be some tragic losses in our horrible economy, but Bizzarro can not be one of them.   So to all the regulars, I know we will regret it later, but you have to tell people that Bizzarro is among the best, and they should spend their hard earned cash there.

So what is so great about it?  Well they have dishes to please meat eaters and vegetarians alike.  The pasta is always cooked perfect. The sauces are amazing.  The bread wonderful, and the soups and salads stellar.  In fact, at almost all restaurants I have only one dish that I order.  At Bizzarro, there are so many great dishes (and there are only probably 15 main dishes), I often don’t know what to get.  I am generally too full to have dessert, but have tried many of them, and the panna cotta is awesome, as is the chcolate vesuvius. I have never understood how their prices can be so low.  Most dishes are about $16 and that includes bread and soup or salad.  Usually it is about $60 for two people for dinner and wine.   

So support local, support consistenly outrageously good, the secret is out.

Oh and by the way.  There is a cell-phone surcharge.  Turn your phone off.  Whatever you do, don’t answer it in the restaurant.