| Pete's Cafe - The Best Place to Eat Downtown | ||||||||||||
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| First-time restaurateur Pete McLaughlin got it right with Pete's Cafe & Bar in Downtown's Old Bank District. He has designed and built the corner restaurant into a stylish destination for lunch, brunch, dinner and late night dining. McLaughlin has created a neighborhood favorite with this warm, spacious dining room. The restaurant is continuously buzzing with a steady stream of diners. McLaughlin, a Mid-Westerner, Seattle-bred manager Christi Collins, and assistant manager Aaron Hagel from Connecticut, bring the common sense of their more rugged urban backgrounds to the venture. Gregarious bartender Steve Clark works the classic, massive wood bar. Pete's Cafe & Bar caters to the late-night theater and dinner crowd and is Downtown's after-hours hangout. Old-fashioned brick- and gold-colored awnings announce Pete's from the street. Coral blinds shade large windows facing out to Main and Fourth streets and pull the room together. Languorous light fixture fans draw down a high ceiling while mustard walls lighten the huge space. The restaurant has been planned to the last detail, from the striking art to the elegantly appointed downstairs restrooms with cinnamon suede walls and a built-in couch. Wall prints of old Downtown and the original tiny octagonal black and white marble tile underfoot underscore the history of the place, once home to a haberdashery, cigar shop, drugstore and chophouse. www.petescafe.com | ||||||||||||
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