At Hound and Bottle, a bevy of local seafood, dubbed Shells of the Sea.
Image: Amber Fouts
Across the Manette Bridge, Alan and Jodi Davis rep the neighborhood at their recently relocated (and renamed) Hound and Bottle.
Image: Amber Fouts
An assured mark of coolness: craft beer. In Manette, a small jut of land in east Bremerton, the euro-styled brewery Der Blokken began dispensing ales alongside canonical pub fare in 2010, the first inkling of rapid change in a district long home to glass repair shops and architecture firms. Then Matt Tinder, a baker with Michelin-starred bona fides, brought Saboteur Bakery to the neighborhood in 2016. Locals (and day-tripping Seattleites, too) happily guzzle Saboteur’s audacious whole wheat croissants and brioche sucre. Meanwhile the former Honor Bar, rechristened Hound and Bottle serves up a rarity in these here meat-and-potato parts: a legitimate seasonal dinner menu—nettle risotto, honey and scape custard, rhubarb-imbued drinks. The cocktail den is fancy enough for a date, but so chill a few windswept boaters may swing through after a day on the inlet.
The burgeoning food scene in this peninsula neighborhood centers on a stretch of shops just off its namesake bridge that reflect Manette’s past as a secluded, autonomous town. It still feels a bit like a remote place, but the new fast ferry from Seattle to Bremerton means Manette is closer than ever.
While You’re There: Peruse Manette Garage, an antique shop at Pitt Avenue and East 11th Street, where curated vintage goods, from old jukeboxes to porcelain neon, dwell.
Published in the Destination Dining issue of Seattle Met.
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