"Rimini has something that all other Italian restaurants in Seattle don’t. Specifically, a Sicilian fellow named Tony who serenades the dining room with Sinatra standards and asks each table, “Va bene?” approximately six times per course. We’d love Rimini for its unrelentingly warm service even if the food was just OK, but thankfully every plate of tender pasta is executed perfectly, and the vodka chicken parm is both blanketed in velvety mozzarella and topped with a dollop of fresh burrata. And it turns out that crispy cannoli shell tastes very good while Tony’s belting “That’s Amore.”" - anne cruz