Fridays at lunch, once upon a time, Skillet parked mere steps from our office door. Awesome! Then they were asked to move, so they started parking about a half mile from our office door. Doable. But apparently they need to move again. Blatant self-interest compels us to ask: Won't someone in Lower Queen Anne or on the edge of Belltown give Skillet a new Friday lunch home? The sculpture park, perhaps? Email eat@skilletstreetfood.com if you've got an idea. (In better news, they're going to be at Mariner games, and their West Seattle debut was their busiest opening day ever. Step it up, Columbia City!)

Not every Seattlest is in the clubs all night. One of us, at least, stayed home to catch Wyatt Cenac's straight-faced field report from socialist Sweden; we were rewarded by watching him whip out a jar of Baconnaise and describe this Seattle-based concoction as the triumph of American capitalism. A fine end to Earth Day, wouldn't you say?

We knew that SkyCity—yes, the restaurant in the Space Needle—attracted tourists, but never did we imagine that it would be Seattle’s highest-grossing independent restaurant in 2008, earning $15,116,739. That is more than 275,000 meals served over the course of the year. Who said something about a recession? We are suckers for a good view of the Seattle skyline, but come on, we know the Emerald City has some serious culinary talent that rivals the Space Needle's food--and maybe even the view.

Bitters and cocktail drinkers had a falling out some decades back, but Seattle is one of the cities that is bringing them back in a big way. Last night we were in Oddfellows Cafe, sitting at the bar and sampling their cocktails, when we noticed that, of the eight listed, four have bitters in them. In fact, their version of the Blood and Sand cocktail contains blood orange bitters made on the premises. The Toronto cocktail combines Angostura bitters and Fernet Branca to bracing, salutary effect, but the Oddfellows Elder Fashion, which unites Campari, orange bitters, and elderflower liqueur is not for beginners. Don't say you weren't warned.

We've previously had a bone to pick with 15th Avenue icon Coastal Kitchen, but not this time. An everyday 9-11 p.m. happy hour suits us just fine. (We love a good happy hour, but sometimes you want a drink outside of the 5-7 window.) In addition to $3 well cocktails, draft beers, and house wine, Coastal invites you to shell out just $3 for fish tacos, mini burgers, or fried calamari. We didn't even know Tunisia had a happy hour, but $3 can also net you a bacon-fried lamb meatball sub, chicken wrap, or flatbread pizza with tomato sauce and goat cheese.

Recent trend that we're not fond of: Nearby restaurants calling the cops on Skillet, the silver-clad rolling kitchen that serves the food of the gods. First 13 Coins forced them to move their Wednesday South Lake Union spot. More recently, managers at the Elliott West Cafe uprooted them from their Friday Elliott Ave location. (That latter one especially hurts, as they used to be a 20-foot walk for us.) Legalities, schmegalities: It's totally bogus to involve the SPD in petty business disputes. 13 Coins and Elliott West? No more of our lunch money for you. Even if you start serving poutine. UPDATE: Now we've heard that it was the building management that called about Skillet (and the hapless hot dog cart that was there for a couple of Wednesdays). Regardless, the Elliott West Cafe staff are all very nice and are not the ones to blame. Unsurprisingly, however, some manager in this chain is being annoying and petty.