The James Beard Best New Restaurants of 2024 | Eater
"In May of 2020, pasta lovers mourned the loss of Il Corvo, known as one of the best restaurants in Seattle — a Pioneer Square stalwart of nine years that often commanded hour-long waits. Little did they know they wouldn’t have to wait long to taste Mike Easton’s handmade pasta again. Last year, Easton and his wife, Erin, opened their new 18-seat spot, four hours and 264 miles southeast of Seattle, in the small town of Waitsburg, Washington. The bar has a limited chalkboard menu. There are a few handmade pastas a night, like silky squares of fazzoletti with rotating seasonal sauces. One week they’re tossed in wild mushroom and parmesan cream, and another, with Dungeness crab, tomato, and saffron. Easton also offers simple, technique-driven antipasti like fresh focaccia, cured meat, and chicory salad alongside desserts like vanilla bean panna cotta topped with a grape must reduction. Well worth a road trip into the wheat fields of Walla Walla, Bar Bacetto brought back everything Seattle loved about Il Corvo — this time, in a 1,200-person town." - Lee Musho
