Until today, Belltown was the last neighborhood in Seattle without a pho parlor. No longer. Black Bottle, that estimable watering hole for the the Under 30 set, is now serving an elegant pho made with beef brisket that's braised to medium-rare, then roasted to order. The lean and fatty bits--and it's a huge amount of meat--meet up in the broth, and pho, of course, is all about the broth: beef bones, star anise, rock......

You haven't heard much from us about Capitol Hill's new "gastropub" Quinn's (owned by Scott and Heather Staples, who also own Restaurant Zoe). It's not their fault--it's just like if you're the fourth Californian to move to Ballard in a month, people look at you funny. (We're on a Ballard kick today.) When it opened, we wandered over to 10th and Pike and glanced at the menu plastered with a raft of hip foodie terms,......