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From 1979, the Schwartz Brothers restaurants operated Benjamin's restaurant. In 1992, the company closed the restaurant and reopened the space as Spazzo, a Mediterranean restaurant.
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In the mid-1920's, Charles Joseph Ernest Blanc turned the Stacy mansion, built in 1885 by Martin Van Buren and Elizabeth Stacy, into La Maison Blanc Restaurant. Before its turn as a restaurant, the building also housed the Seattle Chamber of...
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Founded in 1972 by Christine and Barry Bloch, Bloch's Restaurants Inc. operated four Bloch's Café's locations at various times. They were "known for counter service and prime-rib sandwiches at lunch and table service at night." The Bloch's Cafés...
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Located right by Boeing Field, the Blue Max, an aeronautically themed restaurant, was part of the Red Baron Steakhouse chain in California. It held lip-sync contests every Saturday night from 1979 until it closed in 1988.
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Dave deVarona started The Broadway Restaurant in 1977, and in 1983, the business was sold to Bill Baffert. He later renamed the restaurant Baffert's in 1985. It was reviewed on November 2, 1984 in The Seattle Times.
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Open since 1953, Bush Garden is Seattle's longest-lived and one of the first Japanese restaurants in the city. With tatami rooms and sukiyaki dinners, it was known as a upscale, special-occasion restaurant. There were also locations in San...
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"Billed as an innovative new French cafeteria," when it opened in 1983, Café Casino had two locations, one in Seattle and one in Bellevue. It was a leading restaurant chain in France that started as a grocery store in 1858. Casino USA closed the...
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Café Optimum opened in 1979 as a coffee house and then expanded its offerings to brunch and dinner. It had a reputation for great, fresh seafood and vegetables. Owner D.J. Zentner, a former health teacher, believed in only serving food that left...
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A restaurant chain founded in 1975 in Minnesota. In 2003, after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the chain had the largest hepatitis A outbreak in American history. The remaining locations were closed in 2004.
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China North first opened in 1972, under the ownership of Joseph Lee. Cary Chen moved to Seattle after the dissolution of the "illustrious Uncle Chen's in Portland," and became the chef-owner of this restaurant, serving the six cuisines of Chinese...