He was born in northeast France near the Swiss border, on the shore of Lake Geneva. Place had a track record he had credentials. It was an immediate critical and financial success. He named it Dominique's Place, a bilingual pun on his own name.īut the restaurant was no idle joke. Why, I wondered - as I thoughtfully chewed a magnificent cut of beef tenderloin in a three-peppercorn cream sauce - why should the closure of Dominique's have been a surprise?ĭominique Place (the last name is pronounced Plass) opened his small, cozy, intimate restaurant down at the foot of Madison Street in 1984. There were some cheers, some tears and a round of champagne toasts. It is more of a requiem - a memorial.ĭominique's Place served its last dinner a few weeks ago, late on a soft Saturday night in September. This is not a review of one of Seattle's best French restaurants of the 1980s.
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