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Once again my Facebook friends came through with a great late night dinner suggestion: 

Tavolàta (2323 2nd Ave Seattle, WA)  I forgot that they serve food until 11 pm.  Tavolàta, who participated in my Dine Out Seattle for Haiti earlier this year, has a great dinner menu.

Last night's selection consisted of -

Warm Baguette served with Arbequina Olives in an olive oil & balsamic vinegar dip.  They are serious about the warm bit.  It took them a little bit of time to get it to the table so make sure you ask for it right away so that you have it with your meal.  

The Stone Fruit Salad was a tasty antipasti that mixed savory and sweet.  It had naturally sweet fresh juicy peaches, plums and cherries tossed with fennel, olive oil and balsamic and was topped with a thinly sliced juniper flavored ham (that one was described to this non-meat eater).  This salad was the definitely the highlight!

I followed this up with the Grilled Summer Beans.  This was a fried egg atop the edge of a bundle of grilled wax and green beans wrapped in slices of cured capicola (you guessed it, I passed this on).  Dessert was the Affogato - a sweetly caffeinated way of ending a meal - for some reason caffeine doesn't keep me from blissful sleep.  I was excited about this dessert, but it wasn't what I was expecting.  Something was up with the ice cream - it just wasn't creamy.  I like Via Tribunali's much better.

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