Steelhead Diner
| Address: | 95 Pine St, Seattle, WA 98101, USA |
| Phone: | +1 206-625-0129 |
| Site: | steelheaddiner.com |
| Rating: | 4.1 |
| Working: | 11AM–10PM 11AM–10PM 11AM–10PM 11AM–10PM 11AM–10PM 11AM–10PM 11AM–10PM |
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Robin M
This review was for a special dinner hosted in November with Lange winery. If you have a chance to sign up for ANY of their dinners DO IT! It is really difficult to be able to execute perfectly prepared food for a group dinner of 20 people PLUS keep up with all of the orders in the normal flow of the restaurant, but these guys did it PERFECTLY. We had a six-course dinner with paired wines and everything was not only tasty and paired well with the wines, but perfectly executed. Before each course Jesse Lange from Lange winery would tell us about the wine and we would get an overview of the food pairing. The menu featured a few things similar to the regular menu, but was really an exploration of the partnership between the chef and wine maker. My favorites included: Sunchoke Voloute with curry essence, hickory bacon and truffle oil - when I saw this on the menu I thought there is no way I thought that they could pull this off without hammering the flavors - too much in one dish! I was really wrong. It was my favorite thing of the night, well-balanced subtle use of each ingredient paired with a delicious pinot gris. It was spectacular. Crispy Rainbow Trout - Thai style. This was really really good, again strong flavors that could have really overpowered the trout were applied delicately and skillfully and the fish was cooked to perfection. Chicken Confit taco with mole - yup, you read that correctly, and it was really great. The other courses were great as well, the only change I would have made would have been serving smaller portions, especially of the final veal chop at the end - it was HUGE! The stand-out thing to me was not just the collaboration on flavors and textures between the chef and wine maker, but the perfect execution of each dish. Highly recommended!
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A Private User
This weekend my buddy and his girlfriend along with two other couples took in Sunday brunch at The Steelhead Diner. The crab cakes just ruled. And then yesterday my friend and I ate lunch at The Steelhead Diner. Based on his great weekend my buddy ordered a crab sandwich. Wow! He learned the Chef’s secret: it is the crab … lots of fresh Dungeness crab! This is cooking with love: what you’d expect at the home of a fine cook, instead of commercial restaurant fare. And having eaten at The Steelhead Diner at least four or five times a week over the last six months I feel sorry for anyone who doesn’t eat here too. Even worse for me is getting to the bottom of the Chef’s bowl, where there is no more. The freshness of ingredients, Chefs awesome flavors and textures and a beautiful hot plate delivered by the runner always make me happy. Today the sandwich was so good, dripping juice onto the fries. It was real Louisiana sandwich, plus a cool-one suggested by the helpful wait person. I am always seeing folks from the greater New Orleans area come in for Chef’s gumbo with a big smile, including Branford Marsalis in town for a concert last month, chatting about the family back home. I saw Mario Batali with an appetizer of mussels and a drippimn chicken sandwich. A lot of us from work will take a community table along the side, instead of a low booth near the Chef’s collection of steelhead flies or a small table looking over Puget Sound at the Olympics. Over time I see that colleagues show more vitality, relaxing into them selves and appreciate the more simple things in life. The Steelhead Diner is good medicine. Tomorrow I see myself sitting on the patio overlooking Post Alley with a chilled Brutus Salad that just kills Caesar.
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Harrison Markey
Salmon! I was in seattle for less than 12 hours and did the scenic tour in less than 2. When I made it to Pikes Place Market I asked the fish monger where they suggested and this was their suggestion! Didnt have to look at a menu but did notice a mention of farm fresh ingredients. No farm involved in my order, the biggest piece of salmon they had! the salmon was to die for, cooked perfectly and scarfed down quite quickly. Couldnt help but notice that the place was a bit stuffy though. I was aked if I had a reservation, which I of course did not have. Plenty of open tables, but I was seated at the bar where I noticed the tables stayed open during my enitre meal. I was playing tourist so I asked the bartender which of the local beers he suggested. Didnt get a suggestion! how does that work? literally shrugged me off. the prices were also a bit on the high side. but like I said the salmon was absolutely delicious, well prepared, and a stomach full Overall the deliciousness of the fish saved the day, but I doubt Id be back if I lived in Seattle.
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Y Man
Overrated and expensive, a classic tourist trap. The location should have been a telling tale, but I was drawn to the Google summary sentence "jumbo crab cake". They eliminated this menu item unfortunately. They do have dungeness crab tater tots $12, but it was mostly potatoes so we were pretty stuffed after eating this appetizer. We also ordered crispy chicken spring rolls, which in fact are Vietnamese salad rolls with chicken. We returned it as it wasnt what it says it was. We re-ordered an appetizer, the prawns $16 which contained 4 large shrimp elevated on two big slices of bread on the bottom. Their entrees are more pricey than the menu they posted online so we just ordered the oyster Po boy sandwich $18 which was disappointing. It had two pacific oysters which were thickly breaded coated and lots of oyster skirt pieces making you think you there are lots of oysters in your sandwich. A total carb overload at the end of this meal. One positive thing is the service, that was great. Conclusion: this is a diner with a fine dining price tag
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Johann Schneider
The caviar pie is half the size it used to be! What the hell, Steelhead? The caviar pie is just one silly example, but this place has totally gone down hill. I guess its still a great restaurant, but it is no where near where it used to be! When it first opened, Steelhead Diner was my favorite restaurant. They used to have the best dish in all of Seattle (in my opinion). I still think of it today: the blackened kasu cod. But, it was taken off the menu, portions on popular dishes were reduced. they even got rid of the deep fried beechers cheese curds!! You can still get a decent meal at Steelhead, but it will feel overpriced instead of justified. Were on to you, Steelhead! Shape up or reduce your prices or something! Good luck.
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Tim Quiroz
Upon looking at the menu, we were uncertain about dining in. $47 for salmon a la carte seems a bit unreasonable. Anyways, we decided to give it a shot. My wife wanted to sit out on the patio, which was nice. However, she was disgusted to see that the glasses were upside down touching the tabletops direct. We ordered the salmon cake which was tasty, but not sure if it warranted the price $15. I ordered the fish & chips, and it wasnt honestly one of the worst. No way can you justify charging $19 when you use cheap frozen fries and low quality cod. I probably just ordered the worst thing on the menu. Overall, its not bad but its not anything special either, especially for the price. Service was great.
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A Private User
I came here for an English assignment, to write about trying a new food that Ive never had before. I chose this place because their creme brulee was the least expensive, even though I probably shouldve gone to a French place. I came with a friend who majored in communications and is currently studying abroad in France. We ordered latkes and creme brulee. Delicious! I would go back and do it all over again. We sat at the chefs table (bar-like high-seating right by the kitchen). It was exciting! Dark ambiance, very nightlife feel. By the way, I got my highest score on that paper about trying creme brulee for the first time. I took pictures and had a notepad. Im sure I looked like a food critic.
