Seattle

• Care to dance? Following an extensive culinary tour of Mexico, James Beard Foundation American Express Best Chef: NorthwestChristine Keff plans to open Fandango, a 120-seat Latin American restaurant, this spring in Belltown.

• Brent Christie and Roberto De Angelis, creators of the quick-bite Pasta Ya Gotcha restaurants, and Ted Johnson and Jeremy Jaech, co-founders of the computer graphics company Visio Corp., have openedBaccano in Belltown, a restaurant complex in a faux Italian town selling housewares, food, and books.

• TomDouglas is shuffling chefs at two of his restaurants. Duskie Estes succeeds Matt Costello as chef at the Palace Kitchen, while Costello moves to the relocated Dahlia Lounge in the Marshall Building at Fourth Avenue and Virginia.

• Saleh Joudah has closed Saleh al Lago, his 17-year-old Italian restaurant near Green Lake. Philip Mihalsky (ex-Dahlia Lounge, NYC's Park Bistro) has reopened the space as Nell's, where he serveshickory-smoked lobster, porcini-dusted sweetbreads with Brussels sprouts, and pan-seared veal sirloin with chanterelles.

• Jim Watkins and Sharon Woo-Luke have opened Jimmy's Table, a casual American bistro, in Madison Park. Watkins was chef at Plenty, while Woo-Luke operates Cool Hand Luke's Cafe.

• Snazzy Thai restaurant chain Typhoon! lands in Seattle after hitting Portland. Run byBo Kline and her husband, Steve Kline, Typhoon! opened in November at the Bella Bottega Center in suburban Redmond, and will take over the former Wild Ginger space this spring when that popular pan-Asian restaurant makes its move to larger quarters in the Mann Building at Third Avenue and Union. .