In late 2007, before he built a 10-restaurant empire in Seattle neighborhoods, chef Ethan Stowell owned three very different places, and one of those – Union – was doomed. The recession turned the restaurant’s corner of First and Union into a money-losing location and made its fine-dining concept unsustainable downtown. How his company, Ethan Stowell Restaurants, got from there to where it is now was by taking the not-so-obvious route. Stowell’s two post-Union survivors were Tavolata, a…
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