Two-time James Beard Award-winning chef and founder of Seattle’s Food with Roots, Edouardo Jordan, is sounding the alarm on the local restaurant industry, warning that Seattle is losing its unique restaurants.
“Farmer-driven, locally sourced, sustainable, minimally touched, neighborhood-focused, mom-and-pop and husband-and-wife operations, upscale and lowbrow options, takeout — all of it is disappearing,” he wrote on Instagram earlier this week.
Citing a 2015 article by The Stranger, he worries that Seattle will “be left with only smash burgers and the five owners controlling the remaining 40 restaurants in the city.”…