All Aboard for Fabulousness!!!

We've been having some range issues at Chez Vel-DuRay, so last night The Colonel, The Greek and I went to dinner at one of my favorite places - Andy's Diner!

(I know what you're doing: You're rolling your eyes and thinking "Sheesh. Her and her trains" Well, stop it. Yes, Andy's diner is very railroad-centric, but it is also quite cool.)

For those of you who don't know it, Andy's has been on Fourth Avenue South (just down from the Elephant Car Wash) since 1949. It consists of several OLD (and I mean OLD) rail cars, set up for dining and drinking, as well as an old-fashioned lunch counter.

The food is not bad. Nothing to write home about, but not bad, and the prices aren't bad either. The fun, of course, is in the ambiance. The "Sidetrack Room" (the bar) is like many of the long-gone and much-missed bars of Seattle (the old Jewel's May, Kettel's, Doghouse, Cloud Room, Gold Coin): dumpy, frumpy and sparsely populated with people who look like they've been sitting there since 1973.

But that's just the trouble: The sparse population. Unless I'm missing something, Andy's doesn't get much business, and that is a shame. We all know what lack of business leads to, and we would hate to see that happen.

So, dear readers, I think we should have a Good Taste Chronicles "Meet 'n Greet" in the Sidetrack room, or maybe even a "dinner in the diner". Some Friday we can all gather in the Sidetrack Room, heft a few and head into one of the Dining Rooms for an evening of mediocre food. It would be just like Omaha in the 70's, when my parents and several other couples had a weekly "supper club"

What do you think?