Iron Horse (restaurant)

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Iron Horse
The Iron Horse Restaurant in Seattle, April 2000.jpg
The restaurant in April 2000
Iron Horse (restaurant)
Restaurant information
Established1971 (1971)
Closed2000 (2000)
Food type Hamburger
Street address311 3rd Avenue South
City Seattle
State Washington
CountryUnited States
Coordinates 47°35′58″N122°19′50″W / 47.599569°N 122.330478°W / 47.599569; -122.330478

The Iron Horse was a hamburger restaurant in Seattle, Washington, established in 1971 by Charlie Maslow. [1] Located in Pioneer Square, food orders at the restaurant were delivered by model trains which moved along a track that circled the dining area. [2] [3] [4] The Iron Horse closed in 2000, its then-owners citing increasing rents created by the dot com boom, combined with a loss of event business occasioned by the demolition of the Kingdome, as reasons for its shuttering. [1]

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After the closure of the Iron Horse, the subsequent closing of another train-themed Seattle restaurant – Andy's Diner – prompted the Seattle Weekly's Mike Seely to eulogize that in "the sweet hereafter ... the Big Engineer in the sky makes a choice between Andy's and the Iron Horse". [5]

The restaurant was located at 311 3rd Avenue South, near the King Street Station. [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 "End of the line for Iron Horse". Seattle Times . November 22, 2000. Retrieved January 19, 2008.
  2. Samson, Kam (2001). Frommer's Seattle and Portland 2001 . Wiley & Sons. p.  64. ISBN   076456191X.
  3. "What our writers love this week". Seattle Times . October 31, 2008. Retrieved January 19, 2018.
  4. Shannon, Robin (2008). Seattle's Historic Restaurants. Arcadia Publishing. p. 87. ISBN   978-0738559155.
  5. Seely, Mike (September 20, 2010). "SoDo's Orient Express Hopes for Another Trainwreck". Seattle Weekly . Archived from the original on April 30, 2018. Retrieved November 27, 2019.
  6. Crew, Anna (2001). Moneywise Guide to North America. BUNAC. p. 391. ISBN   0952687259.