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Lunch with a view at Westward

I love this place. It looks like a beach restaurant with umbrellas and pier for boats. Located north of Lake Union, Westward offers a fabulous Seattle skyline view. If the weather is nice you can sit on the deck or have a glass sitting on Adirondack chairs around a fire pit.

The cuisine has some Greek and Mediterranean inspirations, like Grilled Haloumi cheese, Wild Salmon Gravelax with labneh and za’atar, Braised Lamb shoulder, Dungeness Crab tartine, or Keftehes lamb meat balls with roasted plums and Ras el Hanout.

Don’t forget to make a reservation. Open for lunch on Saturdays and Sundays.

Westward
2501 N. Northlake Way

You can read my previous post on Westward: Sunset at Westward

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Lunch at The Whale Wins

At the moment, one of my definite favorite restaurants is The Whale Wins in Wallingford/Fremont.
Chef Renee Erickson (also behind Walrus and Carpenter in Ballard) mixes her amazing talent with many European influences (England, France, Italy, and Spain). 
I went with two friends, and we shared several plates:
First, two tartines on very good bread. One with sardines, curried tomato paste, and shaved fennel and another with herring rillettes and pickled shallots.
Then we tried roasted clams with sausage, spring onion and sumac. I love sumac’s flavor.
We also had warm lentils, swiss chard, spinach, cilantro, orange and tahine.
And the desserts… oh my!
We had Peychaud Bitter frozen sabayon with citrus and meringue. And finally, something that was recommended to us by our waitress was butter roasted zucchini bread with crème fraîche. She was right, it was delightful!

They offer a long list of wines from Italy and France. Among the French ones some we usually don’t find in Seattle (Janières, Apremont, Saumur Domaine Filliatreau…).