Let's be honest: The Red Robin chain does not produce quality food. Their burgers compensate for a dearth of quality with an overload of size, their salads are oily, and their fries taste like they've been tossed in Mrs. Dash. But the Eastlake Red Robin isn't just a restaurant, it's a landmark, and we will miss it. more ›

Three years ago this week, Seattlest penned a typically snarky post about the proliferation of nutcrackers on Seattle streets. Grumble, grumble, crunch, crunch. Off they went to eBay, ne'er to be seen again. Until now. Turns out, they were almost all bought by one guy, Gerry Kingen, the local hospitality entrepreneur who turned Eastlake's beer-n-burger Red Robin into a national franchise and the old Beach Broiler into Seattle's second-highest-grossing restaurant (after the Space Needle, over $11 million in 2008): Salty's on Alki Beach. more ›

With a Freedom Fries eating contest. Here is the relevant flickr set for last night's contest, evidently won by bicycle hobo associate identified only by the alias "Michael." Here are the rules for the 9/11 Eat Off Commemoration that apparently took place at Red Robin: more ›

--Ben Gibbard of Death Cab For Cutie is reported to be set for his big screen debut in the adaptation of David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews With Hideous Men. Gibbard himself is not a hideous man, though. more ›

-The Seattle Times finally deigned to soil its dainty hands with The Stranger's FSU story. more ›