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| - My job often requires me to be at Howard Hughes around lunch time. I usually eat alone and have exactly 45 mins to get in and out. McCormick & Schmick's is an excellent choice for a quick, tasty, white cloth napkin lunch.
Jill is the bartender during the afternoon hours and she serves up lunch expertly with a side of smile.
The iced tea here is always fresh, never bitter. They have an array of salads to choose from, from seafood salads to buffalo chicken. The bread is warm sourdough with softened butter.
My staple lunch is the Oregon dungeness crab and shrimp louis salad. It's served on a bed of iceberg with tomato, cucumber, kalamata olives, egg and thousand island dressing.
As I write this, it is the end of May and wild Alaskan king salmon is in season. You can order your fish prepared any way you like. Simply grilled works for me, and I asked them to pair it with freshly steamed green beans. The salmon was incredibly fresh, and I'll continue to order it as long as it's in season.
Just as an aside, one day last week I only had 1/2 hr for lunch. I dropped my car off at the valet, ran in to the bar, told Jill about my time crunch, and I was out of there with time to spare. Just proves that when you're short on time, that's still no excuse for eating fast food.
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