The Curious Palate

The Curious Palate serves American fusion dishes in a deep corner on the third floor of Nordstrom, across from a children's museum. The menu includes cilantro pasta, asparagus salad, burgers, and wasabi shrimp wraps, with most ingredients brought from farmers markets and made from scratch. At lunch the restaurant is busy, and at 6 p.m. it is quiet before customers soon arrive, while staff explain orders slowly. The bread on the sandwiches and veggie panini tends to be hard or the seasoning bland.