Tilth Restaurant

• Cuisine(s): Pacific Northwest
  Hours: Sun, Sat 10am-2pm, Sun-Thu 5pm-10pm, Fri-Sat 5pm-10:30pm
  Price: $$$
• Payment Types: MasterCard, Visa
  Features: Patio/Sidewalk Dining, Delivery, Private Party, Fireplace
  Serving: Brunch, Dinner, Lunch
• Alcohol: Full bar
  Reservations: Accepted, Recommended
  Parking: Street

Description

When Maria Hines first opened Tilth, her certified-organic restaurant, the food was good-the duck burgers with fingerling chips damn good-but you could sense the strain the budget imposed on the four-star chef. A few years on, she's upped the prices slightly (all dishes are still available in small and large portions), and her creativity has taken flight. A truffled cauliflower flan with bits of Meyer lemon and fried capers is as unctuous as a French triple-crème cheese, and a sablefish fillet cooked sous-vide has the texture of a poached marshmallow. Hines' servers can muster all the polish of a much pricier restaurant without dumping the friendliness befitting a restaurant housed in a tiny Craftsman. And her sublime choucroute garnie-braised sauerkraut, velvety pork cheek, and a breaded patty made of the meat picked off a pork trotter-transcends the Era of Bacon Overkill.