Cuisines:
Wine Bars/Small Plates
And now from the idiosyncratic French sensibilities of Boat Street Cafe owner Renee Erickson comes a Ballard nosh bar par excellence. Settle into the whitewashed-and-windowpaned rusticity (dig the bone chandelier) and nibble Nicoise salads, her trademark cheese and pickle plates, or fresh oysters with champagne mignonette, the house specialty. Or cobble together a few heartier dishes—smoked trout with lentils, perhaps, or her breathtaking steak tartare with egg yolk and toast—and call it dinner. Thoughtfully selected Euro wines and a list of Frenchy cocktails lubricate richly. From its position on the backside of Ballard Avenue’s Staple and Fancy (the two share a windowed wall) the Walrus is at once at the center of everything and away from it all; on the back patio you can smell the tide turning.
Updated 07/25/2012
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