The Big Dinner

[bryant]

There’s this restaurant in Seattle, Canlis. It has a reputation for excellent service and very good food. It is the only restaurant in Seattle with a dress code, which is fairly loose but don’t show up in a T-shirt. It is pricy – $185 a head for a six course tasting menu before you get into drinks – and it has a remarkable view of Lake Union. My in-laws kindly gave us a gift certificate for Christmas several years ago and it’s use it or lose it now that we’re moving, so we invited our dear friends Joe and Harli out to a big old blow out dinner. Here’s how it went.

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Comments

[gentlyepigrams]

That looked delicious!

[bryant]

Absolutely worth the effort. I wouldn't make a trip for it but you two would enjoy it if you happened to be in the area for other reasons.

[mneme]

Sounds delicious!

I probably wouldn't have gotten the sashimi, not least because if I'm gonna pay upwards of $150 for a plate of sashimi I know where to go (far too many places, but I've been to several). That said, sounds delightful, varied, and tasty!

I think I've had a "nice meal" in the Seattle area, but I think at a lower price point (a farm to table restaurant maybe 16 years ago or more).

[bryant]

There’re some really good farm to table places in the city and definitely there’s better sushi. And Seattle just isn’t a food city in the way Austin or SF (or of course NYC) is, which means Canlis stands out partially because there were so few ambitious restaurants for so long. Like every local article about the place feels the need to call out the dress code because it’s so unusual around here.

But still totally lovely.