Chefs and Restaurants

Elmer Dulla Serves Island Hospitality and Guamanian Cooking at familyfriend

Naomi Tomky

The menu at Elmer Dulla’s Seattle restaurant, familyfriend, is designed to convey the story of his life, and thus it became Seattle’s only restaurant serving the food of Guam. His dishes—like the red rice in the burnt eggplant tinaktak bowl, the seafood kelaguen tostada, and the buñelos månglo’—reflect the mix of cultures on an island where Indigenous Chamorro foods mingle with the traditions of Spanish and Japanese...