Staple and Fancy Mercantile

• Cuisine(s): American, Italian, Pacific Northwest, Seafood
  Hours: Sun-Thu 5pm-11pm, Fri-Sat 5pm-12am
  Price: $$$
• Payment Types: All Major Credit Cards
  Features: Wheelchair Accessible
  Serving: Dinner, Late Night
• Alcohol: Full bar
  Reservations: Accepted
  Parking: Street

Description

Staple & Fancy exists way down in the guts of Ballard-by the water, crowded in among the sailmakers, mini-storage units, and coffee shops that pop up like benchmarks of rapid gentrification. The building in which Staple & Fancy is housed has been reclaimed in the best kind of way: just barely. Because of the method by which owner Ethan Stowell and his demo crew turned this former boat-gear warehouse-home, for 80 years, to the Kolstrand Marine Supply Company, and before that to a neighborhood mercantile called L. Strand (a purveyor of "Staple & Fancy" goods, hence the unusual name)-into a rough and rustic restaurant, the place already had a century of history the moment they opened the doors. And today, the food does justice to the space, offering a mix of the modern and the classic, all prepared to the exacting standards of any Stowell operation.