Seattle Times Restaurant Critic Providence Cicero Reviews McCracken and Tough's New Restaurant The Old Sage: Four Star Food

Today's Times has our review.  Cicero writes, "Ooh-and-aah your way through plate after astonishing plate on McCracken and Tough’s tightly focused smoke-and-malt-inspired menu of meat, fish, vegetables and grains..."  After dining with us, in our "handsome, broody bar" she calls herself a "fangirl".  We're honored.

Happy Hour daily until 7pm and all night Sundays.

"Happy Hour roster: that’s where I found cured salmon pastrami with horseradish pudding and pumpernickel crumbles ($6), as well as ham-and-rhubarb-stuffed cherry bomb peppers with frizzled shallots and fresh herbs ($4).

At Happy Hour you’ll also find half-price versions of some items from the main menu, among them a divine hot-from-the-oven puff of flat bread, dusted with caraway, fennel pollen and sea salt ($4). Drink specials included $7 bourbon, rye or scotch Manhattans, complex and well-constructed. Tip your glass to teetotaling pioneer Arthur Denny, whose visage graces the wall. That old sage may look askance at this Old Sage, but I’m a fangirl."

Thank you Providence and the Seattle Times.