Seattle Times - Friday, May 5 2005
"Tin Room is a hangout with a heart" by Nancy Leson
Lamenting the lack of swell restaurants in the South End? You're not alone. But take heart and allow me to introduce you to the Tin Room Bar.
Established in the heart of Olde Burien late last year, the Tin Room takes its name from its former incarnation as the Hi-Line Tin Shop, established in 1930. It's brought to us courtesy of Milo Goodrich, who tends bar, and his business-partner Dan "the Sausageman" House — whose specialty food business is headquartered next door...
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Magnets may not be attracted to tin, but Burien inhabitants sure are. Tin Room is the hangout every neighborhood wishes it had: rich with history, gushing atmosphere, overflowing with regulars and spot-on at delivering the very eats and drinks we crave. Note the corrugated tin walls and sheet-metal roller above the long bar--markers of this skinny room's past life as Ernie & Phylis Eder's Hi-Line Tin Shop. (Eder's old benches inlaid with his tin templates serve as tables.) Maybe it's this deeply authentic sense of place, or the fact that the noshes are consistently better than they need to be (grilled marinated flank steak sandiwch with cilantro aioli, grilled double-smoked pork sausage with apple chutney and hot mustard, and grilled meatloaf with mushroom bourbon gravy). Perhaps it's the enchanting fact that they insist upon making all their cocktails with fresh-squeezed juices and nary a mix in sight. Whatever the reason, Burien oldsters, families and after-work cocktailers have embraced the Tin Room as their "third place" of choice.
Seen the Tin Room elsewhere in the press? Call us and let us know!