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Wildfire Grill
929 West 8th St., Port Angeles, WA
http://wildfiregrillpa.homestead.com/
Review date:  October, 2010

We decided to skip Bella Italia, the PA restaurant where the ubiquitous Belle and Edward (of the sickeningly popular Twilight saga) had their first date. Wildfire doesn’t take reservations, but we were able to do a walk-in.

Can you say, let's wipe our foreheads in relief and have some interesting food that offers a creative spark in this well-located but rather uninteresting town?

The portions here are extremely generous in size. Mel had beef short ribs with Denny's BBQ sauce. It was falling-off-the-bone tender and delicious. Denny is the co-owner, and he makes a great sauce. 

Christie had the pork tenderloin, marinated. This was also excellent, with the meat nice and juicy despite the leanness of this cut.

Carlos chose the Meat Lovers Pizza for his birthday dinner, an excellent thin crust with chile-hot pepperoni. He found it very satisfying and the rest of us agreed when we shared small slices of it.

I had the seafood cakes, a mix of shrimp, halibut, and whitefish. They were fresh and nicely browned without being overcooked, but somewhat bland compared to everyone else’s entrees. The accompaniments of mashed potatoes and roasted vegetables were very good.

We were too full and thus skipped dessert. Service was excellent and cheerful, and we left very happy. This is much better food than has been previously available in Port Angeles, and with tip came to very modest $126.