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"Renee Erickson’s highly anticipated new restaurant is not really a restaurant. Sure, you can have a full meal here, but it’s really more of a place where you can engage in some Italian-style don’t-eat-without-drinking-or-drink-without-eating grazing while on your way to dinner. To be clear, there are some fantastic grazing opportunities here, like the black cod mousse, which comes topped with photogenic orange ikura. There’s an impressive list of Italian wines, and oysters (it’s an Erickson restaurant, so of course there’s oysters), and also a lot of beautiful tile and huge wine bottles that have been turned into candles. Lioness also boasts one of the few standing bars in Seattle, which means having a drink here technically counts as exercise." - Meg van Huygen, Harry Cheadle
