A quarter is one of several mementos embedded in the bar top at La Isla in Redmond. It is the coin co-owners Alfonso Gonzalez and Jason Mikos flipped to resolve their design disagreements. Perhaps Congress could adopt this decision-making method, because it certainly made for a successful collaboration. Even more than the original La Isla, a neighborhood favorite in Ballard since 2005, the 2-month-old Redmond restaurant evokes Old San Juan, no small feat in a suburban strip-mall locale. In the dining room, scrolling ironwork, ceramic tiles and splashes of tropical color play against the aged-rum hue of high-backed booths clustered like barrio storefronts along a faux cobblestone alley. In...
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