Cascadia
Seattle, WA 98121
Phone: (206) 448-8884
- Price:
- $$$$
- Cross Street:
- Bell Street
- Specialties:
- Hamburger
- Best of Citysearch:
- Bar Menu 2007, Bar Menu 2007, Bar Menu 2006
- Hours:
- Mon-Thu 5pm-12am, Fri-Sat 5pm-12:30am
Message from Cascadia
Fine dining. No rules.
- Modern American, Northwest
- Private Dining and Catering
- Happy Hour 5 - 7pm, Mon - Sat
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Editorial Review for Cascadia – by Hannah Levin
The Scene
With its warmly glowing bar and tranquil waterfall window separating the kitchen and dining room, this Belltown beauty exudes opulence, but with a refreshing absence of upscale pretension. Service is gregarious, yet unobtrusive, making it a proposal-worthy date spot or an ideal choice for high-end celebrations.
The Food
The moniker refers to Chef Kerry Sear's focus on the lush area between the Cascade Mountains and the Pacific Ocean: All ingredients are drawn exclusively from this region. Tasting or prix-fixe menus are the best route for harnessing the most of the kitchen's creative output. The seven-course vegetarian option features successes such as the silky tofu "scallops" and crisp wontons with eggplant "caviar," while the three-course prix-fixe menu wins with robust grilled venison sausage and the cooling, sweet finish of hand-churned ice cream.
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Insider Tips
Know Before You GoThe bar's famous mini sirloin burgers are worth a special trip. Order them plain or with add-ons like blue cheese, black truffle butter or barbecued lobster. Fans can also order them for catered events.
What to DrinkTry the icy Alpine martini, with a pine-flavored sorbet "snowball" floating in Absolut Citron.
The ExtrasPrivate dining is available, with the option of prix-fixe menus or cocktails and appetizers.
Happy HourThe bar features one of city's best happy hours, which includes deeply discounted top-shelf cocktails and $2.50 mini-burgers. Get there right at 5pm to snag a spot.
Notable ChefChef Kerry Sear frequently leads tours of the Pike Place Market and teaches cooking classes in the Cascadia kitchen. Call for details and pricing.
Outdoor DiningThe bar's overflow spills out onto a charming patio on First Avenue.
User Reviews for Cascadia
07/16/2008 Posted by foodiedad
We went to Cascadia on a vacation in Seattle. Good food and kids welcome (my son is 5). His meal was great, three courses with a fantastic dessert involving cotton candy and a chocolate Space Needle. If I could order off the kids menu I would have been happier. My wife and I each had a variation of their seasonal 3 course meal with wine pairings. First, at $25 for 3 paired wines, the half glasses were very disappointing. The wines were good, but over $8 a half glass of Reisling is not acceptable. The food sounded good, but was somewhat bland and uninspired. For my entree I had hamachi tuna paired with a pureed eggplant with miso. The eggplant "sauce" completely overwhelmed the tuna and was terrible by itself. The appetizer and dessert were fair. Service was excellent but the execution was just off. I had seen in the Sea-Times that Chef Sear was looking to sell the restaurant, probably about time.
Pros: kids menu, service
Cons: adults menu
04/10/2008 Posted by impregum
Just plain bad food, and bad experience. We eat out alot, I mean alot, all over the country and abroad. Tried Cascadia a few years ago and hated it. We decided to give it a go again. If it has been around this long we must have just gone on a bad night. Wrong. Service from door to dessert (although desert was good, but pretty hard to mess that up) was bad, and food even worse. Although I wouldn't have thought the service so bad, if the food wasn't even worse. We will never go again, and compel others not waste their money. It's not super expensive....but still not worth it.
Pros: decor
Cons: everything else
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