Easy to make fun of this place, what with its silly name (no connection with South Carolina radio station WHYM or the New York restaurant Whym) and Fifties decor, but hard to ignore its pride of place: the clean, well-lighted prow of Belltown sailing northward, 24 hours a day, into the intersection of First & Denny. When it was Minnie's, this was the archetype of a shit-hole diner. The employees knew better than to eat......

Nothing screams “alcoholic refuge” like a windowless bar. At no place is this truer than the Slurricane Cafe, as some derisively refer to the old mainstay at the corner of 7th and Bell. To say the Hurricane is crap is overly simplistic. The Hurricane fills a rare and seedy void combining 24 hour “service," Simpson’s pinball and a decent jukebox with the aforementioned windowless lounge. The food is sub Mecca/5 Point on the dive-joint......