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  • American, Burgers, Fast Food, New American
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  • Takeout, Private Party, Catering, Kid Friendly
    Lunch
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  • Not Accepted
    Street
Description

Nothing more than an Airstream trailer found weekdays in various curbsides, alleyways, and parking lots, Skillet is undoubtedly Seattle's best restaurant on wheels, attracting a cult following of neighborhood foodies. On the gourmet end, there's really no better burger around than their $11 offering, touting grass-fed beef they grind and salt-cure themselves, arugula, and bacon jam. The steal is the poutine, that Canadian delicacy of thick fries smothered in gravy and cheese curds-a delicious way to stretch your stomach. No matter what the options on their chalkboard are (many of which will be crossed out if you return to Skillet for a later lunch), the ingredients are the best of the best-in-season, fresh, and locally sourced. With not much space in the trailer to prepare their food, there's no room for bullshit. And though the servers hang out the door of a trailer, Skillet boasts impeccable service.







  • 2008 | Best Place to Talk Politics With a New Friend While You're Waiting for Bacon Jam

    The peripatetic Airstream trailer known as Skillet Street Food makes a different stop every day at lunchtime, and each stop draws a crowd. Four deep it sometimes gets, all of us hungry, eager, and unwilling to appear impatient/uncool. To pass the time while standing on the street waiting for our names to be called, we customers resort to that most ancient form of entertainment: talking to our neighbors. Where do you work You here every Tuesday How about that kobe burger with bacon jam... More »

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  • The Silver Bullet of Seattle Street Food

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    Joshua Henderson and Danny Sizemore have two things going right for them today: The sun's out, and they haven't been towed. Since they hatched their idea for gutting an old Airstream trailer and turning it into a mobile gourmet kitchen called Ski... More »

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    seattleweeklybestof | Seattle, WA | 62 Reviews

    | Wed, May 6, 2009

    The peripatetic Airstream trailer known as Skillet Street Food makes a different stop every day at lunchtime, and each stop draws a crowd. Four deep it sometimes gets, all of us hungry, eager, and unwilling to appear impatient/uncool. To pass the time while standing on the street waiting for our names to be called, we customers resort to that most ancient form of entertainment: talking to our neighbors. Where do you work? You here every Tuesday? How about that kobe burger with bacon jam? (General consensus: damn tasty.) This spring, of course, the Democratic primary was on everyone's minds, and the small talk out front strayed into long conversations—well, 15-minute ones, because the food doesn't take that long to arrive—regarding Obama's prospects and Republican angst. The experience left me with even more questions: Should I be speaking so frankly to strangers? Was I really in Seattle? Should I have ordered the pappardelle with cod and pea vines instead of the poutine?—Jonathan Kauffman

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