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6049 Seaview Ave. N.W. Seattle, WA 98107

206-789-6309

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Seattle Weekly
Recommended
Best Place to Dine With Your Grandpa
Award Winner 2011

Cuisine(s): Seafood

Hours: Daily 11:30am-9pm

Price: $$
Payment Types: All Major Credit Cards, cash, ATM/Debit

Features: Banquet Facilities, Catering, Patio/Sidewalk Dining, Private Party, Water View, Wheelchair Accessible

Serving: Dinner, Lunch
Alcohol: Full bar

Reservations: Accepted, Highly Recommended

Parking: Lot Available, Valet

Description

Now in its 60s, Ray's has become such a cliché of Seattle delights, it's almost impossible to believe it could also be good. Just taste the smoked Columbia River Coho salmon and grilled Chatham Strait sablefish in sake lees. The stuff surrounding the actual seafood-the salads, the side dishes, the sauces-varies in quality from ho-hum to delightful, but the meat itself is all finesse. The cafe gives you the same view as the boathouse without the luxury tax. Casual and airy, it is banked by stone fireplaces for the winter and rimmed by a deck for the summer from which you can toss fries at feisty seagulls.

2011 | Best Place to Dine With Your Grandpa

Gramps is going to love Ray's Boathouse. He'll probably talk your ear off about how he used to come to Shilshole "back in the day" before the original Ray's burned down in '87. (Isn't it cute how Grandpa can recall the dates of disasters, but he never manages to remember your birthday) The rebuilt Ray's, which opened more than 20 years ago, isn't quite the same, but it'll do just fine because it's got a lot of nice dishes he remembers from the good old days. And, by gum, the vi... More »

Ray's Cafe Is Seattle, Stereotyped

By Naomi Bishop | Mon, April 9, 2012

Ray's Cafe is packed on a Monday night, a mix of families with kids, older folk celebrating birthdays, and tourists wielding cameras like they are the Puget Sound paparazzi. There's a noise level and ... More »
Hogue Cellars Pinot Grigio Shines In Blind Tasting

By Leslie Kelly | Fri, January 13, 2012

Hey fellow lushes! How about this for a Monday that didn't suck? The Wino got to judge nearly 100 whites for the Ray's Boathouse 25th retrospective of Northwest wines. Now, that might sound like the ... More »
Those Eggs on Ray's Cafe's Sammie Really Are Farm-Fresh

By Leslie Kelly | Thu, January 6, 2011

It bugs the hell out of me when restaurants that claim to embrace the whole local/sustainable thing use factory eggs. Especially because there are loads of local, sustainable eggs available. Here's t... More »
Back to the Classics

By Jonathan Kauffman | Wed, October 11, 2006

The first restaurant your parents took you to where you couldn't color on the tablecloth. The place where you and your husband celebrated your first, 10th, and 20th anniversaries. The place you've sent so many out-of-town guests to that you feel l... More »
Hook, Line, and Urethane

By Roger Downey | Wed, June 14, 2006

For many, the arrival in the market of fresh wild salmon is the high point of the Northwest gustatory year. Thank to the tireless evangelizing of Seattle food promoter Jon Rowley, virtually every seafood lover in North America knows that salmon fr... More »
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Ray's Boathouse and Cafe

6049 Seaview Ave. N.W. Seattle, WA 98107

206-789-6309

Description

2011 | Best Place to Dine With Your Grandpa

By Naomi Bishop | Mon, April 9, 2012

By Leslie Kelly | Fri, January 13, 2012

By Leslie Kelly | Thu, January 6, 2011

By Jonathan Kauffman | Wed, October 11, 2006

By Roger Downey | Wed, June 14, 2006