Type: Restaurant
Class: Average
Sitting next door to the Ballroom they seemed to get some spill over from people who don’t want to wait in the giant line to get in on this Friday night. This used to the be Seattle Fish Company or some such. This new place is equally “nice” and unthrilling. There seemed to be a lot of regulars already, but I suspect that since the look is close enough to the old place that they just took up their old bar stool.
Norm’s is decent looking menu but it is nothing special. I think that this is the key word for this place. Nothing new, nothing special. It may be the type of place you like and you live close by, but I don’t see it doing a lot of non-local business on its own. Its location next to the Ballroom is genius, but they need some better drink specials to lure in the kids before they disappear into the Ballroom. The other idea would be some quick cheap food available as people spill out. They have a huge opportunity, but they need to leech off of the Ballroom’s popularity like a lamprey.
I give them 2 and a half Martini Glasses out of 5. Nothing wrong, but nothing special.
-B
Posted by Brandon at July 05, 2003 08:53 PM