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RESTAURANT PICK OF THE WEEK: THE PINK DOOR

Located in Pike Place Market, The Pink Door is a popular Italian trattoria with a fun, bohemian atmosphere. The menu features a mix of Italian dishes, as well as live music and entertainment.

Their site gives a history and story of their coming to Seattle, Washington. The site mentions that since 1981, The Pink Door has become a way of life that pairs good food with a sense of community, culture, and generosity of spirit. The historic space at 1919 Post Alley that once housed a violin shop became the dream realized Jackie (the owner). She filled the restaurant with artistic touches and ephemera, staffed it with heart, sought out the most alluring and compelling entertainers she could line up and created a menu that spoke to her roots and was free of pretense.

On the Post Alley exterior, she crowned her establishment with a perfect shade of milky pink-inspired colors by the tiles in The Duomo in Firenze.

They go on to say that Jackie ignores trends while staying true to her own food affinities, such as her enduring love of anchovies (even when all others eschewed them!). She also insists, like her ancestors, that bread is an indispensable tool while eating, and as such, The Pink Door will never charge for it. From its opening day to more than three decades later, this perennially beloved Italian restaurant keeps things simple, fresh, and seasonal for generations to keep coming back for more.

We love that each of their employee photos has a dog in tow! Tell us your thoughts and what your favorite dishes are. We’d love to hear from you.

Things to Watch Out For in 2023 for Seattle

Gene Balk of the Seattle Times talks about stats to watch for in 2023. Our team would like to take a deeper dive into this and see if our audience would like to know more.

Balk first discusses Downtown workers. He mentions that the recovery to a flourishing downtown has been a struggle across the board for Americans. However, Seattle seems to have a few positive KPIs that are trending upward. One is the return of monthly downtown visitors. The increase for hotel stays and rooms came back referencing June 2021, stay occupancy was at 96% comparatively in the same month in 2019. This could be a result of the pandemic loosening up.

Although all signs point to increased tourism, one metric that remains to be unchanged is the return to work for office workers. In a recent mention, Elon Musk did let go of 200 employees and shuttered all janitorial staff in Seattle’s Twitter offices having employees needing to fend for their own toilet paper.

Balk mentions that month-over-month return of the office workforce increased only until September when percentages appear to drop. Then steadily return in November of 2022. This information has come from Placer.ai, a national firm that provides foot-traffic analytics.

Another metric pointed out was Seattle’s population growth. According to the piece, Seattle was the fastest-growing big U.S. city in the 2010s gaining more than 100,000 in population over the course of the decade.

Seattle came to a screeching halt when losing nearly 4,300 people which was a 0.6% decline the article mentions. Looks like the Census Bureau 2022 population data for cities will be released in May.

Finally, Balk’s last point talks about inflation and the cost of living. As with the rest of the nation, Seattle is not immune to the increase of inflation and Seattle already had a high cost of living to begin with. He mentions that the common goods of 59 items had increased by 10%. From Margarine to Gas.

We’d like to know from those reading this post are things picking up again? How are businesses doing? We’re hoping that as things return to normal, we’ll see much stronger metrics and a return to normalcy for Seattle in the coming years. Only time will tell.

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