Seriously one of the best spots in Seattle — amazing chicken and broth, either the rice or noodle are phenomenal, and great cocktails and NA drinks. Highly recommend the waffles too 🤤 Just the best!!!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Anh-Kim Phung
God great place
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
Aliya Tang
Service was great but the chicken was dry! Loved the soup that it came with though, amazing.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
Clare Lin
The chicken was a bit dry in both dishes we tried, but the waffles! So perfectly toasty and the perfect sweet-salty-rich juxtaposition of flavors between the pandan and the buttercream!
Additional A+ for service and atmosphere (wow! it's a boat!).
Everyone wishes their parking lot was larger.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
Kathryn Wright
Ate at this restaurant on a visit to Seattle. The service was average, altho the staff were nice & pleasant. The food was good, but when I eat Fried Chicken, I want the chicken to be seasoned and I found that the fried chicken had most of the seasoning in the outer breading. I would suggest they season & marinate the chicken so that the seasoning is in the meat vs the breading. The tea was great and the accompaniments were good, but I would rate them higher if they focused on seasoning the meat first, and then the coating. Also, contrary to popular like, I don't want my chicken to be served boiling hot..let it cool down and then serve it so that the customer can start eating right away vs having to wait on this fresh out the grease bath chicken and then served. Give it some time to cool down before bringing it to the customer's table. Its too hot served as is. We were seated right away, but it was lunch time so there was a wait for our food to get to our plates, and, as I said, that chicken was boiling hot..had to wait to tackle it. My first time there so I only can comment on what I ordered..the boiling hot chicken
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 3
Recommended dishes: Garlic Rice with Fried Chicken
Jenny
Hey, what happened!? After many reviews talking about how good the chicken is, you gotta be kidding me! It's a CORNISH HEN, not chicken, which is fine, but you have to cook it a delicate way because Cornish hen is delicate and can get dry FAST. It also doesn’t have much fat flavor. This was double assaulted because It looked and tasted like a precooked refrigerated bird fried to perfect leather with crunchy texture of twigs. The sauce is terrible with that wet extruded into small balls garlic in a jar you get at Safeway. Zero garlic flavor, how is that possible.then they burned it to bronze instead of golden, did not looo at all like pics from the reviews!!! They can't just blend costco pre peeled garlic? Rice, great sticky but dry leather skin and room temp. Soup was like the msg-y Chinese noodle soups in the dive eateries of Oahu but with no mustard or hot sauces/chili water to perk it up. The sauce is bad, just corn syrup and something salty and msg. I haven't had a vietnamese sweet sauce this bad in...ever, usually it's fresh tasting and watery, this was Korean fried chicken sticky. Y’all LIED to me. C’mon Seattle, honor among foodies!
Neryzza Calo
The food was worth the wait! It’s small and amazing. Service was 😊
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Waffle, Garlic Rice with Fried Chicken
Richard Thurston
The waffle with banana was amazing! What ever you order for your main, make sure to save room for a waffle!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
Charlie Te
Great place to get some chicken and rice or chicken with egg noodles soup. It's nice that the menu here is limited as they specialize in chicken. The Cornish hen was cooked perfectly with a great exterior crunch texture and a juicy interior. The place is nice and cozy and has a design shaped like a boat.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Tuan Nguyen
They serve low-quality and small portion vietnamese food, but price is up there. The service is pretty bad, too (server took order and brought us food. That's it. No water or check-up). Also they use ugly metal plates (same for Pho Bac.... I'm guessing same owner) to serve food... Just a horrible experience overall.
This is the first of my many trips to this “very ngon” place
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Miranda Le
Came here on a Saturday for dinner and got to sit right away but at the counter with a party of 4. There’s only a few items on the menu but they specialize in chicken dishes. The chicken and rice is really good, cooked perfectly with rice and a mini salad on the side. They also give you broth but it’s super salty and I could only have two spoons before I couldn’t take any more. We ordered the pandan waffle and I tried to get as much of that cream as I could it complimented the waffle so well. Overall very tasty and if you pay with cash they give you a small discount.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Nadia S
I had been curious about The Boat for a while and finally stopped by for dinner on a Friday night. The experience was a bit mixed for me.
We ordered the Com Ga Mom Toi, which came with garlic Cornish hen, yellow rice, chrysanthemum salad, and chicken broth. The portion was generous and the presentation was nice, but the flavors didn’t really land for me. The hen was cooked well but was on the sweeter side, which just isn’t my preference. My partner liked it though, so it might come down to personal taste i guess. The chicken broth was decent, and the turmeric rice was fine as well.
We also got a side of noodles with fried egg, but the noodles were a little tough. I ended up adding some broth to soften them, which helped.
Somethings to consider from my experience - My water glass had something in it, and the server didn’t seem to notice or offer a replacement. The space is also pretty noisy with limited seating, so it’s not the most relaxing place to sit and eat.
Overall, I’d say the vibe is very casual, but the attention to detail just wasn’t quite there for me.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 3
Thea Yong
Was excited to try this spot, but the food was just okay. Had the dry noodle option, and it was pretty salty and had too much black pepper. The chicken skin was soggy, not crispy. Side of turmeric rice had no flavor, was just for color, maybe that was the purpose. The pandan waffle was also just okay. Did love the side of broth so probably should have the noodle soup. Probably won't go back though.
Kelly Chow-Sale
Go there for the food, but it’s not a place you can sit relax and talk to your friends. Because of the way you’re always feeling rushed and the staff is efficient. When we went there, they were out of dessert and as they close early It’s not really a place to linger and hang out with friends
Seriously one of the best spots in Seattle — amazing chicken and broth, either the rice or noodle are phenomenal, and great cocktails and NA drinks. Highly recommend the waffles too 🤤 Just the best!!!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
God great place
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
Service was great but the chicken was dry! Loved the soup that it came with though, amazing.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
The chicken was a bit dry in both dishes we tried, but the waffles! So perfectly toasty and the perfect sweet-salty-rich juxtaposition of flavors between the pandan and the buttercream!
Additional A+ for service and atmosphere (wow! it's a boat!).
Everyone wishes their parking lot was larger.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
Ate at this restaurant on a visit to Seattle. The service was average, altho the staff were nice & pleasant. The food was good, but when I eat Fried Chicken, I want the chicken to be seasoned and I found that the fried chicken had most of the seasoning in the outer breading. I would suggest they season & marinate the chicken so that the seasoning is in the meat vs the breading. The tea was great and the accompaniments were good, but I would rate them higher if they focused on seasoning the meat first, and then the coating. Also, contrary to popular like, I don't want my chicken to be served boiling hot..let it cool down and then serve it so that the customer can start eating right away vs having to wait on this fresh out the grease bath chicken and then served. Give it some time to cool down before bringing it to the customer's table. Its too hot served as is. We were seated right away, but it was lunch time so there was a wait for our food to get to our plates, and, as I said, that chicken was boiling hot..had to wait to tackle it. My first time there so I only can comment on what I ordered..the boiling hot chicken
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 3
Recommended dishes: Garlic Rice with Fried Chicken
Hey, what happened!? After many reviews talking about how good the chicken is, you gotta be kidding me! It's a CORNISH HEN, not chicken, which is fine, but you have to cook it a delicate way because Cornish hen is delicate and can get dry FAST. It also doesn’t have much fat flavor. This was double assaulted because It looked and tasted like a precooked refrigerated bird fried to perfect leather with crunchy texture of twigs. The sauce is terrible with that wet extruded into small balls garlic in a jar you get at Safeway. Zero garlic flavor, how is that possible.then they burned it to bronze instead of golden, did not looo at all like pics from the reviews!!! They can't just blend costco pre peeled garlic? Rice, great sticky but dry leather skin and room temp. Soup was like the msg-y Chinese noodle soups in the dive eateries of Oahu but with no mustard or hot sauces/chili water to perk it up. The sauce is bad, just corn syrup and something salty and msg. I haven't had a vietnamese sweet sauce this bad in...ever, usually it's fresh tasting and watery, this was Korean fried chicken sticky. Y’all LIED to me. C’mon Seattle, honor among foodies!
The food was worth the wait! It’s small and amazing. Service was 😊
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Waffle, Garlic Rice with Fried Chicken
The waffle with banana was amazing! What ever you order for your main, make sure to save room for a waffle!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
Great place to get some chicken and rice or chicken with egg noodles soup. It's nice that the menu here is limited as they specialize in chicken. The Cornish hen was cooked perfectly with a great exterior crunch texture and a juicy interior. The place is nice and cozy and has a design shaped like a boat.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
They serve low-quality and small portion vietnamese food, but price is up there. The service is pretty bad, too (server took order and brought us food. That's it. No water or check-up). Also they use ugly metal plates (same for Pho Bac.... I'm guessing same owner) to serve food... Just a horrible experience overall.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Restaurantji Recommends
This is the first of my many trips to this “very ngon” place
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Came here on a Saturday for dinner and got to sit right away but at the counter with a party of 4. There’s only a few items on the menu but they specialize in chicken dishes. The chicken and rice is really good, cooked perfectly with rice and a mini salad on the side. They also give you broth but it’s super salty and I could only have two spoons before I couldn’t take any more. We ordered the pandan waffle and I tried to get as much of that cream as I could it complimented the waffle so well. Overall very tasty and if you pay with cash they give you a small discount.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
I had been curious about The Boat for a while and finally stopped by for dinner on a Friday night. The experience was a bit mixed for me.
We ordered the Com Ga Mom Toi, which came with garlic Cornish hen, yellow rice, chrysanthemum salad, and chicken broth. The portion was generous and the presentation was nice, but the flavors didn’t really land for me. The hen was cooked well but was on the sweeter side, which just isn’t my preference. My partner liked it though, so it might come down to personal taste i guess. The chicken broth was decent, and the turmeric rice was fine as well.
We also got a side of noodles with fried egg, but the noodles were a little tough. I ended up adding some broth to soften them, which helped.
Somethings to consider from my experience - My water glass had something in it, and the server didn’t seem to notice or offer a replacement. The space is also pretty noisy with limited seating, so it’s not the most relaxing place to sit and eat.
Overall, I’d say the vibe is very casual, but the attention to detail just wasn’t quite there for me.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 3
Was excited to try this spot, but the food was just okay. Had the dry noodle option, and it was pretty salty and had too much black pepper. The chicken skin was soggy, not crispy. Side of turmeric rice had no flavor, was just for color, maybe that was the purpose. The pandan waffle was also just okay. Did love the side of broth so probably should have the noodle soup. Probably won't go back though.
Go there for the food, but it’s not a place you can sit relax and talk to your friends. Because of the way you’re always feeling rushed and the staff is efficient. When we went there, they were out of dessert and as they close early It’s not really a place to linger and hang out with friends
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
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