Washington High School Football - O'Dea victorious over Rainier Beach

September 16, 2022: Seattle, WA 98104

In Friday's league match, the host O'Dea Fighting Irish football squad scored a good 22-0 victory over the Rainier Beach Vikings.

In their next game, the Fighting Irish clash with the Seattle Prep Panthers (Seattle, WA) in a 3A Metro match, on Friday, September 23. O'Dea will attempt to move on its 3-0 season record. The Panthers enter the match with a 1-2 record after their 48-7 league loss to Garfield (Seattle, WA).

The Vikings (2-1) will now prepare for their match against Ballard (Seattle, WA). The Beavers enter the 3A Metro match with a 1-2 record. In their last match, Ballard thwarted Roosevelt (Seattle, WA), 41-34, in a league match.

Kricket Club is one of the few upscale Indian restaurants in Seattle. With takes on Mumbai street food, steamy goat biryani sliced open tableside, and a dark dining room with palpable night-out potential, all signs point to greatness with a side of roti. 

But ultimately, this isn't somewhere you should go out of your way for. There are better Indian restaurants in town at a lower price tag, more worthwhile spots for an exciting dinner, and overall tastier meals elsewhere in Ravenna.

The entire menu is said to be “family-style,” but we’ve only found that to be reasonable if you’re a family of one or two. In fact, Kricket Club’s portions are so delicate that it makes the concept of sharing difficult for the first time since preschool, and this is especially the case for the appetizers. Vada pao sliders come in pairs, three miniature bao are stuffed with just a few pieces of masala-spiced potatoes, and madras coffee-soaked tuna tartare yields only a couple of spoonfuls of fish. It prompts you to order more food for the table, but that’s when your meal starts to add up quickly—a solitary order of four small tandoori-rubbed chicken wingettes will run you $21. 

We understand that this is a fine-dining restaurant. Not to mention that Meesha, Kricket Club’s sister spot in Fremont, has similar pricing. But multiple plates seem to prioritize heat over flavor, some bread items are stale, and the cocktails can be unpleasant (like a cumin-heavy mocktail, or a Jameson drink packed with bitter ginger and a lack of sweetness). For a meal that could easily cost $100 per person, there shouldn’t be so many misses. 

There are actually some hits on this menu, though, but they’re few and far between. We thoroughly enjoy the chicken ruby, a pot of smoky stewed tomatoes that you can spoon on ghee-glistened basmati rice. When the homemade buns on the vada pao are fresh, they hold in beetroot patty sliders we’d snack on once a week. And the curried soup shooter you receive at the beginning of the meal is soothing, coconutty, and by far the best thing here. 

Even if you’re looking for the hyper-specific scenario where you need a date night spot in Ravenna and spending money is the least of your concerns, we’d still send you to Frank’s or Ebb & Co. At least at those two places, a single drumette won’t set you back a fiver.