Tuna, egg, and olive at Txori
It's squeezed between brick walls, allowing sun to slip in only during certain blessed hours of the day. Txori's airy indoor dining room options are topped by the outside haven, a few little tables on a patio nearly surrounded by old brick walls.
Txori's food is more consistently sunny than it's patio, the little Basque bites intensely colored with chorizo, purple octopus, and squid ink. Natural daylight is the food's most flattering partner.
This is the second restaurant of Harvest Vine owners Joseba and Carolin, a glorious project whose late night intentions might be more suited to Capitol Hill than Belltown. But it's as Basque as you get in Seattle, with paper napkins meant to be tossed on the floor after use, red wine and coke, and meals made from diminutive plates, manchego, and jamon serrano.
The blood sausage and stuffed squid are requirements at a meal at Txori, so is the shaved chocolate on chorizo. Cocktails are excellent as is the very Spanish wine list.
Txori's an ideal summer restaurant - aside from the patio, the food is fresh, not overly heavy, and the bright flavors spring out with ease.
Txori, 2207 2nd Ave, 206-204-9771, open Sunday - Wednesday 12 pm - 11 pm, Thursday - Saturday, 12 pm - 1 am.
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