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David Cohn opened The Barb in 1951, and later expanded his business to include several locations in the Seattle area, all under the name, The Barb. Cohn opened at least 40 other restaurants, including The Metropolitan Grill and Union Square Grill....
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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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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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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.