The Last Slice

I was drinking and eating on the cheap during March Madness at the Duchess Saturday when a friend of mine who lives in the neighborhood informed me that the U-Village Round Table was shutting its doors this Saturday, March 31. Thus ends a 17-year legacy of scores of Little League after-parties and, as some have put it, "the best bad pizza in town" (i.e., Pizza Hut prices, yet a million times tastier -- 'specially the pepperoni). Moreover, Seattleites will now have to schlep to the 'burbs for the Table's vaunted cheddar-mozzarella swirl, as the U-Village RT was the last remaining in the city limits. Its lease expired and rent raised to unattainable proportions, the parlor will make way for -- what else -- hundreds of residential units.