Thierry, Stratton AND Wilson? Downtown Seattle’s holiday restaurant heist

Any one of these spots would be enough good news for a month, but this season three celebrated Seattle chefs are all opening restaurants downtown.

Fri, Dec 13, 5 a.m.

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One of the Joey's test-kitchen products, making its debut this week, is a $14 veggie burger, a dish that will change the way you feel about vegetarian "substitutes." The patty itself is made with brown rice, kidney beans, almonds, and chopped shiitake mushrooms marinated in a miso-based mayonnaise. The tomato is on the bottom, below the patty, while a layer of jack cheese, plus arugula, cucumber, bread & butter pickle, sprouts and avocado are on the top. The whole thing is served pre-cut and held together with skewers.

It feels and tastes like a real burger, with a warm and toasty bun studded with oats. There's plenty of crunch in the lettuce-cucumber top of the burger (the part the incisors go through first), followed by the cheese-covered, savory "meat" of the patty and the juiciness of the tomato slice. "It eats better like that, with the tomato on the bottom," says the burger's creator, John Clark, the company's director of product development for Joey's, who found every other veggie burger far too dry. "At Joey's, it's still messy, but we decided that we'd just live with it."

First, Loulay Kitchen & Bar, in the 6th & Union corner of the Sheraton Hotel. This is Thierry Rautureau's eagerly awaited new venue, successor to the upscale Madison Valley spot, Rover's, that he closed earlier this year. It's named for the village where he grew up, St. Hilaire de Loulay, in southwestern France.

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Thierry, Stratton AND Wilson? Downtown Seattle's holiday restaurant heist