Restaurants near Ballard Bridge

We had a good New Year Day dinner in the restaurant as a family of seven. The ambience is excellent particularly with the life music and the view of the Seattle downtown. The service is excellent particularly with our server Brian. The food is good.

There were 8 of us seated after the Nutcracker. We had our choice of the dining room or the bar. We chose a high topper in the bar. To put it simply service was excellent from the minute we were greeted at the door to taking our leave. The food was exceptional with a large and varied menu that provided everyone with what they wanted. Ordering came down to trying for as wide a selection as possible which was easy. My food recommendation - get anything that looks interesting to you. We will definitely come back to enjoy again.

Superb, as usual. The carrot sformato was an unusual find and quite delicious. The addition of olives to the blood orange and fennel salad hit just the right acid note, Mama’s meatballs were pure beef with a strong dash of anise seed, and the accompanying marinara had been simmering for ages to pick up that deep complexity of flavors and great balance between sweet and slightly acid.

Excellent selection of well prepared fish and seafood. Nice wines by the glass if you don't wish to pick something from the fine wine list.

The mushroom risotto was incredible! The staff was amazing and super friendly.