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2030 Fifth Ave. Seattle, WA 98121

206-448-2001

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Critics'
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Best Restaurant When Someone Else Pays
Award Winner 2011

Cuisine(s): Pacific Northwest

Hours: Daily 4:30pm-1am

Price: $$
Payment Types: MasterCard, Visa, American Express, Discover, cash, check, ATM/Debit

Features: Takeout, Private Party, Catering, Wheelchair Accessible

Serving: Dinner, Late Night
Alcohol: Full bar

Reservations: Accepted, Not Accepted, Not Necessary

Parking: Garage, Street

Description

The second jewel in Tom Douglas' culinary crown is a mainstay for a downtown crowd looking for ambience and food that are both upscale and unfussy. The open kitchen and its applewood grill are warm and inviting, even when volume levels reach a fever pitch on weekends. Evergreen items such as goat cheese fondue served with grilled bread and apples, fire-roasted shellfish with chorizo, or roast chicken are what's built Palace Kitchen's following of locals and visiting celebs (everyone from This American Life's Ira Glass to the rock band Wilco dines here), but the creative seasonal specials are what keep things fresh.

2011 | Best Restaurant When Someone Else Pays

You can't write about the "best" anything without having experienced it yourself. So while there most certainly are many Seattle restaurants more expensive than Tom Douglas' Palace Kitchen, his new American creation is the one that provided, for me, the most sublime combination of good food and relief at not having to cover the bill. I can't remember all that was eaten, but there were definitely fresh oysters, foraged mushrooms, Idaho trout, sockeye salmon, a bottle (OK, bottles) of ... More »
2010 | Best Reason to Get over Your Hatred of Coconut

Coconut isn't quite as divisive an edible as that other "c" word, cilantro. But there are certainly those who'd rather shave their head than eat a plateful of the palm's shavings. These people should go to the re-education camp known as Tom Douglas' Palace Kitchen. There, in Belltown, they'll find the triple coconut-cream pie. Even at $9 a slice, it's still the best bargain in town. --Caleb Hannan 2030 Fifth Ave., 448-2001 More »

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cchilton1 | Seattle, WA | 282 Reviews

| Wed, June 23, 2010

If you are heading to a show at The Moore, it's the perfect pre-drink/pre-food spot. I recommend the delicious cheese platter or the duck confit appetizer...mmmm

Dinner Menu

Appetizers

$15.00

Fire Roasted Puget Sound Clams
fennel sausage, prosser tomato sauce, saffron aioli

$3.00
$17.00
$30.00

Olympia Oysters On The 1/2 Shell
blood orange ice

$14.00

Sea Sampler
octopus~grapefruit, clams~kimchee, scallop~citrus

$10.00

Wood Grilled Chicken Wings
coriander cream

$13.00

Grilled Rare Albacore Tuna
beluga lentils, pink grapefruit, citrus vinaigrette

$12.00

Cider Braised Berkshire Pork Short Rib
oregon grits, horseradish butter, apples

$10.00

Roasted Onion~tomme Raviolo
chicken liver confit, bacon, sherry, hot peppers

$15.00
$20.00

"plin" A Piedmontese Style Ravioli
with roast pork and chard

$11.00

Roasted Kobe Beef Marrow Bones
charred radicchio, pickled peppers, toast

$7.00

Palace Olive Poppers
herbed sour cream

$13.00

Pan Roasted Moulard Duck Breast
winter squash~chestnut dumplings, brown butter, saba

$10.00

Roasted Acorn Squash
parmesan, walnut, bitter greens

$11.00

Goat Cheese And Lavender Fondue
wood grilled bread, cameo apples

$2.00

Dahlia Bakery Bread
california arbequina olive oil, balsamic, picholine

Salads and Soups

$10.00

South End Arugula
tonnemaker honey crisp apples, beechers cheddar, organic white truffle oil

$10.00

Enormous Garlic Crouton And Romaine Lettuce
with parmesan dressing

$8.00

Creamy Potato Parsnip Soup
crispy leek, oil cured chili

$10.00

Marinated Golden Beets
new crop citrus, endive, river's edge chevre, raw honey, pistachio butter

Hand Crafted Northwest Cheese-cheeses
$20. To Try All Five

$5.00

Dinah's

$5.00

Goat Gouda

$5.00

Humbolt Fog

$5.00

Fourme D'ambert

$5.00

Hannah Bridge

Entrees

$25.00

Pan Roasted B.c. True Cod
brown butter spatzle, braised savoy cabbage, bacon, fresh cranberry relish

$20.00

Handmade Tagliatelle
braised leg of lamb, castelvetrano olives, ochoa's ricotta, lemon peel, summer savoury

$15.00

Palace Burger Royale
wood grilled oregon country beef, dahlia bakery bun, pickled green tomato and fries

$19.00

Winter Vegetables
ginger-sweet potato latkes, glazed delicata squash, chanterelles, kale, pickled pear, spicy pignoli

$25.00

Roasted Berkshire Pork Loin
alpine style pork sausage, roasted cippolini onion, white beans with duck confit, escarole

$40.00

Prime American Kobe Beef Strip Loin
celery root, black kale, roasted hedgehog mushrooms, celery heart, oregon white truffle

Entrees-from The Applewood Grill
Served With Sauteed Prosser Farm Greens And Yukon Gold Mashed Potatoes

$23.00

Rotisserie Chicken
pickled prosser peppers

$28.00

Country Natural Beef Flat Iron Steak
cashew butter

$24.00

Whole Idaho Trout
fried almond-grape relish

Desserts

$9.00

Chocolate Bundt Cake
banana brownie ice cream, peanut butter ganache

$8.00

Carmelized Brioche Pudding
vanilla ice cream, caramel sauce, orange rind

$8.00

Apple Cranberry Crisp
oat streusel, vanilla ice cream

$8.00

A Little Pecan Pie
bourbon~pecan truffle

$8.00

Chai Creme Caramel
gingersnap cookies

$9.00

Dahlia Triple Coconut Cream Pie
white chocolate, toasted coconut

$6.00

Bowl Of Sorbet Or Ice Cream
apple pie sorbet, citrus buttermilk ice cream, chocolate peanut butter ice cream

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Palace Kitchen

2030 Fifth Ave. Seattle, WA 98121

206-448-2001

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2011 | Best Restaurant When Someone Else Pays

2010 | Best Reason to Get over Your Hatred of Coconut

By Hanna Raskin | Fri, May 18, 2012

By Hanna Raskin | Mon, May 7, 2012

By Sonja Groset | Fri, January 13, 2012

By Jason Sheehan, SW Staff | Wed, March 23, 2011

By Leslie Kelly | Thu, February 17, 2011

cchilton1 | Seattle, WA | 282 Reviews