Comments on: Matador vs. Pesos: What do you think?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:15:50 +0000

The copycat idea is truly silly. They’re both great restaurants and there are some similarities, but I never felt like either Pesos or Matador got their chocolate in my peanut butter … errr, you get my point. With this logic we’d have every Vietnamese Pho soup house, every Mexican restaraunt and every burger joint in Seattle suing each other. Obama’s "silly season" doesn’t apply just to politics … it’s silly season in Seattle’s restaurant community. Get back to serving drinks and food and we’ll keep buying, unconfused and just happy that both places exist in different neighborhoods.

By: alejo699

alejo699 — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:28:27 +0000

I’ve been to both restaurants (well, the Matador in West Seattle, not in Ballard), and I definitely prefer Peso’s. As for the legal aspects of the thing, I think the Peso’s owner might be on shaky ground with a lawsuit — however, working for someone and then using their ideas to start your own restaurant does seem kind of crummy.

By: josh

josh — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 05:11:40 +0000

Even though they might have a point (I was surprised at how distinctive the menu was at Peso's when I stopped in after bumbershoot) I thought it seemed awfully silly when I saw it in the Seattle Weekly earlier this week [mb]. I mean, it's not as if habanero prawns are really a smoking gun.