Shaker + Spear
2000 2nd Ave, Seattle
(206) 826-1700
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Excellent brunch. Meeting friends who had taken the ferry over from Bainbridge Island, this was a good place to meet and it was a super choice. Great food, excellent drinks (the cold brew with Licor 43 was kinda amazing), attentive service, and not crazy prices. Highly recommend.
Excellent food. Very friendly wait staff. I had the plum salad and then ordered adobo mussels which was an app as my main. Excellent. My husband had the scallops and they were also good. Of course the focaccia is a must have.
Awful experience had high expectations.  food was late prepared done correctly. Nothing was done to fix issue.
Nice upscale restaurant close to Pike Place. Food was well prepared and presented. The place is modern and looks understated from outside which for me is a plus. Good drinks and selection of wines. I had already reserved when I asked a local for a seafood place close-by and he mentioned it. A good place if you don't want to go to one of the tourist places in the market.
Enjoyed a meal here last week. Appetizers were delicious but my entree was just ok. Service was excellent.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Charred Octopus, Grilled Octopus, King Cole Duck Breast
Best meal of my life. We had Tiger Prawns, Pan-seared Scallops, and the Alaskan Salmon. Absolute perfection on every dish. The flavour combinations, the textures, the colours, the excellence of cook. To top that off we then had the most amazing Chai Flan that was so creamy and delicious. The service was top notch and very helpful with suggestions on where to go in the city to explore.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
We had a private dinner family style and the quality and quantity of food was amazing. The servers incredible.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Brussel Sprouts Nuoc Cham Jicama Purple Daikon, Truffle Parmesan Fries Saffron Aioli
Amazing! Seattle food is so many steps above the nearby towns. This place put attention to detail and incredibly creative flavor combinations.
Kid-friendliness: Not recommended for kids
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 4
Food was amazing!! I ordered the truffle fries ( must try), oysters and black pepper fish dish. They were cooked perfectly and super delicious. In addition, the staff including kitchen were incredibly professional, knowledgeable and kind. Glad I sat at the chefs table :).
For as much as this meal cost, I expected much better. I ordered hush puppies and surf & turf (NYstrip and scallops). The hush puppies were incredibly dry and had a weird burnt after taste. I didn't understand why a simple comfort food eaten with seafood was reimagined with complex toppings that didn't really add anything to the dish. Good hush puppies stand on their own. This was just weird. The steak was cooked to the right temp and had flavor, albeit overly covered in something that I presume was a twist on chimichurri sauce. The sauce wasn't bad, just perhaps too much - drowning the steak AND the bone placed on the plate. The bone had no marrow in it, so I don't know what purpose it served other than as additional surface area for the sauce. The scallops were slightly undercooked, but had good flavor on the portion that wasn't in the path of the sauce. The sauce that runneth over overpowered the rest of the scallops. The service was good and I liked the atmosphere, but not enough to return for a mediocre meal. I suppose that is what I get for giving a hotel restaurant a shot.
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Love the no drink menu. The customized drink is an awesome concept.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
This was a great dining experience. Most notably, the scallops prepared by Ryan were perfection, risotto was delicious, the hostess was lovely, and I really enjoyed my NA cocktails.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 4
I’ll start with the positive (the food), but you should know up front it was a bad experience. We started with the Charred Octopus which had great flavor but was a bit tough. For entrées, both the Scallops and the Duck Breast were amazing! Although only 3 scallops for $40 makes it quite overpriced. The server was nice and efficient but not very friendly and we barely saw him after ordering. The food was brought to the table by a woman we suspected might be an inexperienced food runner. Rather than stopping at each diner and describing the plate, she continued to circle around and mumble about the dishes towards no specific person or table. We had no idea whose dish she was describing, and then she just sort of faded off as she left the table.
At the start, the waiter offered to track a bill for us and the other couple. As we concluded, the waiter brought the bill. This is where things got messy. Our bill was correct, so we paid. Then the waiter came and said he made an error. (He hadn’t.) He thought he “corrected” it, but instead added an item to our bill that was also already on the other couple’s bill. We pointed this out, and awaited another bill (identical to the first). But instead of simply voiding everything and starting over, the waiter tried to make some offset adjustment to the already processed incorrect bill (without any explanation or reconciliation). Then he disappeared. I asked for the manager, who to our surprise, was actually the “inexperienced food runner” we encountered earlier. She rudely argued the transaction, blamed their point-of-sale system, and thought it was silly to want itemized and credit card receipts for the transaction. A tad less arrogance and a smidge of customer service could have simply resolved this.
So word of warning, enjoy the food but beware the bill.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 1
Great service and outstanding food
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Charred Octopus, Oysters Mignonette Celery, Seafood Boil
It has been a while that I can say that I had enjoyed the food and that was it. Champagne perfectly chilled, appetizers timely served, dinner plate amazing and dessert- oh gosh, we just swallowed it in 1 minute. Flannel cake was out this world. Highly recommended.
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