Good Friday at Betty

What and excellent place. First off, if one bases their opinion on the steak frites they serve for lunch, Betty is exceptional. Today's Good Friday lunch was a little departure from the usual Serious Pie.

Owned by the nice people who own Crow Betty opened on Queen Anne this month. Though they took the best people from Crow and put them in Betty, it's still got that new restaurant bumble. As with all new restaurants, the place is a bit of a nail biter for the servers and cooks and a bit of a question mark for those who expect perfection from a brand new place. Mario, the general manager, will not be getting any sleep for the next six months but everything will turn out fine.

The major problem we had was at our table: nine people with a few different time lines, no table host (that one person who orders the wine, takes the check and is the server's main contact), lot's of different food needs (shared plates, open faced sandwiches and steak frites), and general tom-foolery. We were a nightmare and the server did her best to put up with us.

Like Café Presse, one can't out and out review the place until it settles a bit. I do hope that Betty adjusts its lunch menu to accommodate the kitchen. It is tricky to juggle a ticket with an open faced sandwich (which takes very little time to cook) and steak frites–which takes quite a while and service suffers because of it.

I look forward to seeing how Betty will evolve. I certainly look forward to the mega deck they are planning and am sorry it isn't done in time for the weather we are having now.

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