Seattle Magazine
Best New Restaurant 2006
“Dinette isn’t revolutionary: It offers the kind of rustic European-inspired food that we can’t get enough of in Seattle but presents it with a rare and happy convergence of cozy atmosphere, reasonable prices and yumminess. From homemade pickled onions that add zip to lush duck rillettes to the almond brittle to accompany a last, rich bite of chocolate terrine, chef-owner Melissa Nyffeler makes her food with a sticklers eye for detail. And her small, offbeat dining room, decorated with a collection of tea trays and pale gold stenciling, is charming. With its style and thoughtful details, Dinette makes a novelty out of familiar comforts, and very well might make regulars of us all.”
Seattle Magazine
April 2006