Seattle - September 17, 2008

Thali Wood

Poppy Restaurant Opens

Your preferred methods of consumption include browsing, grazing, scanning, sampling, and nibbling. Clearly — as further evidenced by the mini liquor bottles in your purse — you favor a lot of a little to a lot of one thing.

That’s Jerry Traunfeld’s (former executive chef at The Herbfarm) philosophy, too. Traunfeld’s new restaurant, Poppy, reinterprets the Indian tradition of thali for a Northwest audience.

A platter of ten dishes is served with specialties like Romano bean, hazelnut, and fennel salad and Lummi salmon with a sorrel-chive sauce.

Try the minted lentil goat cheese strudel paired with a flight of wine (so you can taste a little of each).

Most herbs come direct from the kitchen’s garden. And the contemporary, cheerful atmosphere is just as fresh.

That ought to leave you chomping at the bit.

Poppy, 622 Broadway East (206-324-1108 or poppyseattle.com).