84 Yesler has been a restaurant location since the 40's and the Mitchelli Family has been stewards of this location for over 3 decades!
We are currently serving the infant children of the children of our original guests. The bond and the trust generated between us all is a result of the assurance to our patrons of quality, value, service and cleanliness.
We are proud and thankful for the many years of service to our community, and it is with a deep sense of regret that we announce the closure of "Mitchelli's".
We would love to continue if not for the many problems caused by the current economy. As much as government is trying to help small business, it continues to contribute to putting them out of business across America! Think of us as the farms of the 30's great depression! Banks foreclosed on them and turned them to dust; now government is shuttering business doors and putting more and more people out of work. Small business is the backbone of the economy! How many more shuttered doorways do you need to walk by?
I have personally written all my elected officials. Our President was kind enough to respond, although his contact information cannot help us. No one else deemed it important enough to call or write!
The restaurant will go dark on January 1, 2010. An auction will take place on January 20, 2010.
We will be having two closing parties, one on December 30th and the other on New Year's Eve, from 5PM until close each evening. Bring a thirst, a hunger, a celebratory mind set and any musical instruments for the "Trat" jam!! Be sure to hit your ATM before you come as both days will have deeply discounted fare, hence the need for "Cash Only". We want to help you eat and drink it till it's gone!!!!!
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I will sit at your counter in the old part one more time, it was my first place in Seattle to get a regular breakfast in the fall of 1973 when i was squatting across the street, You came a bit later, Danny, a welcome change to the menu, eggs in purgatory! Next door early morning, we lined up at the longshoreman hall to unload the occasional banana boats, the best of pay, better that taking the school bus parked across the street off for a ride to the cucumber fields south of seattle, those fields are now entombed in concrete. 50 cents a 5 gallon bucket they paid, but they would feed lunch and a beer on the way back to Yesler. I hope someone keeps the old counter working and in place for the 3rd turnover, the counter has some life in it still. Is it time for the soup kitchen? You came close with your benevolence my friend. with love, buster simpson
ReplyDeleteJust a handful of years after Buster, I began to come by your counter very early in the morning following a graveyard shift at the Spectrum Glass pilot line on west marginal way. The eggs were good and slid down easy with a short glass of dago wine. I will sit at your counter one last time later this evening. Cheers! -Floyd
ReplyDeleteWell, I tried to do my part, Dany. I couldn't attend because of some boring medical stuff, but I announced the closing parties at several venues because I had a lot of speaking engagements last month. And there were many long faces. I tried to think of a Dany response and it came naturally: If about three times that many long faces dined there regularly, you wouldn't be going out of business and you might even still have Stella's and Lake Union and the 25-wine-pour machines, yada yada. But I held my tongue, following your model. You have taught me well, me boy. Hey, I even coerced my attorney to the party.
ReplyDeleteBut, as a friend and I discussed over a decent sangiovese, no telling what might happen if you lay out on the sand of the Mediterranean a couple of seasons and your wife feeds you grapes and olives and bon-bons. You could well become the toast of Provence or even Poitou and that would give me a good excuse to try to return to France after 45 years gone.
(trying to think positively)
or, as my dad and mom, Depression-veterans both, used to day: "Hey Buddy, don't forget to write when you get work."
Noel
www.skagitriverjournal.com
What a bummer. My and my father's favorite place to have a quiet business lunch is gone. i can't say i went that far back with it, just a couple years, but Mitchelli's closing will leave a huge gap in Pioneer Square's lunch-time options.
ReplyDeleteI really regret having not made a happy hour. I was checking the website just now for the happy hour times, when i saw that it's closing.
I'm sorry to see you go.
John