{"id":48,"date":"2004-05-28T18:49:24","date_gmt":"2004-05-29T01:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/?p=48"},"modified":"2010-05-28T02:12:11","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T09:12:11","slug":"more-koa-than-you-can-shake-a-stick-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/more-koa-than-you-can-shake-a-stick-at\/","title":{"rendered":"More koa than you can shake a stick at"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not completely off topic, but close…
\nI had dinner at Palisade<\/a> last night with my mother-in-law. For those not in the know, Palisade is *the* place to take your out-of-town tourist guests when they’re visiting Seattle. Great seafood, good everything else, with a vague allusion to an island theme present in the pu-pu platter naming scheme and guava wood-fired smokers. Mostly, though, it’s just good, fresh, expensive seafood.
\nIt earns its chops as a tourist’s delight because of the panoramic view of the boats and the sound, plus a giant saltwater pond\/stream running through the restaurant featuring live salmon, rockfish, wolf eels, and more. Unfortunately, they do not serve the residents. That’s what I want, a fish-it-yourself restaurant. In any case, enough restaurant reviews–there’s plenty of those elsewhere in blogland<\/a>. Back to my point.
\nThe restaurant is very beautifully decorated. I was trying to guess the wood and my closest guess was Koa, but since it’s $30\/bf, I discounted it and settled on some unusual type of mahogany. I was wrong.
\nThe place is Koa. Everywhere. Tables, paneling, giant double doors, waitstands, everything. According to our server, the Maitre d’ stand alone is $10k worth of lumber. He informed me that they found a private landowner on Hawaii (the only place Koa grows) who hooked them up with lumber for the whole place. Coincidentally, I’d just read an article<\/a> about koa that day, so it was a real treat to see so much of it up close.
\nCheck out Palisade–you’ll thank me for it.<\/p>\n


\n(Great seafood, but not quite perfect–a tiny bit dumbed-down for the masses. Perfect for tourists.)
\n(I’ve got a 2 bf bit of koa in my garage just waiting for a project…)
\n(my mother-in-law is a delightful person who I enjoy spending time with. No, I am not being sarcastic. No, she does not read this weblog. Yes, I am very, very lucky)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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