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Saturday, March 17, 2007
I joined a couple of girlfriends here for my first visit to the downtown Seattle version of this wine bar/restaurant this past Thursday. (I've been to the one in Kirkland several times.) The restaurant area is huge compared to the Eastside version and encompasses two levels of space along with having an enormous tower of wine in the center of the restaurant. It's an impressive, yet loud, setting. The noise comes partly from the large number of people but also because there are so many hard surfaces in this place that sound bounces around - huge plate glass windows, concrete bars and floors, metal chairs and tables, and an open layout. It's gonna get loud no matter what. But it is architectural eye candy.
I had a tasty salad that consisted of cubed chicken, cranberries, green onion, and celery. I loved it! The size of it was a bit more than I could handle and still eat a small appetizer of the skewered scallops - which were also tasty. Wines by the glass ranged from roughly $6 to $15 a glass mostly. Kind of pricey since you can buy a bottle of "Tuesday wine" for the equivalent amount of money but going to Purple is all about being seen. They do have a series of interesting flavored sparkling waters on the menu too that each of us sampled. One gal had kumquat, I got lavender (tasty!) and the other gal got lemongrass. I loved this stuff and forgot to get the name of the product because I'd love to have it again.
My girlfriends and I were out for a night of conversation and catching up so we ignored the many single men that were clearly there to look for "talent" as one of my male friends would put it. And, there was plenty of talent to be found. It's an interesting place to go and I'll likely go again. If you want to stay under $30 for the night you'll want to pick a good choice of a glass of wine and stick with just a salad or an appetizer like we did. I can see the bill getting pretty hefty here real quick if you aren't paying attention to what you're ordering.
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