Monsoon Seattle

Food is so delicious. The menu options are tantalizing. Loved the non-alcoholic cocktails. Pleased that they have a good selection of gluten-free dishes for my celiac niece. We ate on the rooftop garden, which was lovely. All in all a delightful evening.

The grilled pork belly (pictured) was one of the stand out dish at Monsoon, which used to be one of our favourite local restaurants when we lived in Seattle about 20 years ago. Amazingly they still have on the menu my three favourite items from back then: drunken chicken, spicy eggplant, and banana bread. Sadly I can no longer eat any of these dishes, the first two don't contain gluten but are fried in a contaminated frier, the banana bread contains wheat. Still, plenty of other great dishes to enjoy, and the company was wonderful. I wonder how difficult it would be for them to adjust what flour they use such that the frier is no longer contaminated, which would then greatly increase the enjoyment of celiac sufferers like myself.