This is hands down one of the best restaurants in the city. Amazing food, amazing staff, fresh ingredients, and top of the line bourbon selections! Sailfish, Balard Cut, and Parish NW are always at the top of our list for eateries!!!
This place was definitely not what our group expected based on the website and online menu. We thought it would be a higher end restaurant with larger entrees but it was a loud, packed, crowded bar with small share plates that were all just ok or kind of odd. Won't be back.
Kaitlyn Jensen
Food and drinks are excellent in a great location! Happy hour everyday has a great selection!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Rustam Khashimkhodjaev
Great sea food awesome vine and amazing service. We tried almost everything on the menu and where quite satisfied.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Jennifer Lee
Good food. Oysters were great. I enjoyed the kale ceaser but less excited about the squash salad. The sable fish dish I really liked and the scallop risotto was solid.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
IronMaiden
It was a quiet Tuesday night. There were two other tables seated. We had the Kale Caesar Salad, Crab Cake, and Sablefish. All the dishes were tasty, although the salad was too heavily dressed for our taste, and the very large expensive ($33!) crab cake came by itself. The small piece of sablefish ($37) had a flavorful broth. For the prices of the entrees, we would have thought they would come with something else on the plate.
MichaelC
We split the crab cake and the scallop risotto and they were both fresh and delicious. It was an unusually cold evening for Seattle and the restaurant was uncomfortably chilly even though we were seated at the communal fire table in the center of the restaurant. Even our server wore her jacket the entire night. So that put a bit of damper on the meal; we basically ate quickly and left. I would go back on a summer evening, though!
Susan F.
In the old location of the Matador, this restaurant is lovely and cozy on a rainy, dark Seattle late afternoon. Came with my sister for HH. Joey, our waiter, was welcoming and an expert on the cocktails, my gin and tonic was fantastic, and food. We beat the crowd and are both looking forward to our next visit.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Great new seafood spot! Came in with a large group for a birthday and we tried several dishes. Loved the poke and the crab cake! They also let us bring in our own cake for dessert and even cut it up for us. Would definitely eat here again.
Maggie
Overall, we enjoyed the food, particularly the signature crab cake. I'd give a higher rating but for the oysters. They were fresh and delicious BUT very gritty. The grit was partly sand like, but we realized we were also spitting out large pieces of rock salt.
It was so dark that it was hard to eat the pork chop, which was otherwise quite tasty. And they were out of their brussel sprouts early on a Saturday evening.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 4
Nadine
Fancy restaurant with crab cake as their signature dish.It was pretty chilly and the staff came every 3 minutes to check whether everything is okay which had been a bit disturbing. But they were super friendly.Food was great and the cocktails delicious.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
estef23
This place was great! The food, drinks and the vibe are all reasons why I would go again, just not for a celebration. The host at the front greeted us great and acknowledged our celebration, took us to our table and gave us a quick rundown of the menu which we highly appreciated. The rest of our experience was okay. The food was amazing and the highlight of the rest of our dining experience, even without a couple of dishes we wanted to try that had run out. If we were offered a dessert menu or something to enhance our celebration, this would be a five star review.
We had a great date night at Sailfish! We had the best time chatting with our waiter (Joey) and the head chef (Zach) came out to talk to us because we were a huge fan of the blueberry custard pie dessert we had! Everyone was so so nice. The bartenders also love going off menu and creating fun drinks based on your liquor of choice and a flavor - highly recommend this place!
This restaurant is a fun Ballard spot -- I'm visiting from Palm Springs so it was a hike from downtown, but worth the food. I love how they had small plates and sharing plates. We ordered too much food, not realizing how big the portions were. A delicious spot!
This is hands down one of the best restaurants in the city. Amazing food, amazing staff, fresh ingredients, and top of the line bourbon selections! Sailfish, Balard Cut, and Parish NW are always at the top of our list for eateries!!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Crab Cake, Broccolini, Mussels and Clams, Brussels Sprouts, Aguachile
This place was definitely not what our group expected based on the website and online menu. We thought it would be a higher end restaurant with larger entrees but it was a loud, packed, crowded bar with small share plates that were all just ok or kind of odd. Won't be back.
Food and drinks are excellent in a great location! Happy hour everyday has a great selection!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Great sea food awesome vine and amazing service. We tried almost everything on the menu and where quite satisfied.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Good food. Oysters were great. I enjoyed the kale ceaser but less excited about the squash salad. The sable fish dish I really liked and the scallop risotto was solid.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
It was a quiet Tuesday night. There were two other tables seated. We had the Kale Caesar Salad, Crab Cake, and Sablefish. All the dishes were tasty, although the salad was too heavily dressed for our taste, and the very large expensive ($33!) crab cake came by itself. The small piece of sablefish ($37) had a flavorful broth. For the prices of the entrees, we would have thought they would come with something else on the plate.
We split the crab cake and the scallop risotto and they were both fresh and delicious. It was an unusually cold evening for Seattle and the restaurant was uncomfortably chilly even though we were seated at the communal fire table in the center of the restaurant. Even our server wore her jacket the entire night. So that put a bit of damper on the meal; we basically ate quickly and left. I would go back on a summer evening, though!
In the old location of the Matador, this restaurant is lovely and cozy on a rainy, dark Seattle late afternoon. Came with my sister for HH. Joey, our waiter, was welcoming and an expert on the cocktails, my gin and tonic was fantastic, and food. We beat the crowd and are both looking forward to our next visit.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Great new seafood spot! Came in with a large group for a birthday and we tried several dishes. Loved the poke and the crab cake! They also let us bring in our own cake for dessert and even cut it up for us. Would definitely eat here again.
Overall, we enjoyed the food, particularly the signature crab cake. I'd give a higher rating but for the oysters. They were fresh and delicious BUT very gritty. The grit was partly sand like, but we realized we were also spitting out large pieces of rock salt.
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It was so dark that it was hard to eat the pork chop, which was otherwise quite tasty. And they were out of their brussel sprouts early on a Saturday evening.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 4
Fancy restaurant with crab cake as their signature dish.It was pretty chilly and the staff came every 3 minutes to check whether everything is okay which had been a bit disturbing. But they were super friendly.Food was great and the cocktails delicious.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
This place was great! The food, drinks and the vibe are all reasons why I would go again, just not for a celebration. The host at the front greeted us great and acknowledged our celebration, took us to our table and gave us a quick rundown of the menu which we highly appreciated. The rest of our experience was okay. The food was amazing and the highlight of the rest of our dining experience, even without a couple of dishes we wanted to try that had run out. If we were offered a dessert menu or something to enhance our celebration, this would be a five star review.
We had a great date night at Sailfish! We had the best time chatting with our waiter (Joey) and the head chef (Zach) came out to talk to us because we were a huge fan of the blueberry custard pie dessert we had! Everyone was so so nice. The bartenders also love going off menu and creating fun drinks based on your liquor of choice and a flavor - highly recommend this place!
This restaurant is a fun Ballard spot -- I'm visiting from Palm Springs so it was a hike from downtown, but worth the food. I love how they had small plates and sharing plates. We ordered too much food, not realizing how big the portions were. A delicious spot!
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