Chicken-N-Mo wins our Slam Dunk Dishes tournament!
April 5, 2021 4:53 PM Connor Sarles
SPOKANE, Wash. The viewers have spoken, and the winner of our Slam Dunk Dishes bracket the local dish you voted as the best in the Inland Northwest is Chicken-N-Mo’s fried chicken!
It was a tense face-off between iconic eateries Domini Sandwich and Chicken-N-Mo, located right in downtown Spokane. In the end, Chicken-N-Mo edged out a win by just two votes!
Overall, 2,966 votes were cast in our tournament.
In the first round, many of the expected big name dishes won, with some upset wins the Luna Burger beat out Reuben from Madeleine’s 43–41, and the Zip’s Papa Joe lost in a tiebreaker decision against The Cedars’ Prime Rib, as did Clinkerdagger’s Pea Salad to The Scoop’s Ice Cream Waffle.
n Monday, word slowly began trickling
out of Olympia that restaurants and bars, which have been closed for indoor dining since mid-November, can now adopt new COVID-19 safety guidelines defining open-air dining. As early as Tuesday, several establishments across the Spokane area announced they d begin seating customers inside at 25 percent capacity while keeping open all bay-style doors, usually reserved for warm weather, to increase outside airflow. The new open-air rules came just days before many restaurants across the region saw recent investments in temporary outdoor structures, mostly thin-walled event tents, badly damaged in the historic Jan. 13 windstorm. Under the new guidelines from the governor s office, open air seating is defined as a structure with one or more permeable exterior walls, allowing outside air to easily exchange within occupied seating areas and maintain carbon dioxide levels below 450ppm.