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Neighborhood: WallingfordMon-Thu. 5:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Fri. 5:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
Sat. 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Sat. 5:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
Sun. 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Sun. 5:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
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Expensive and memorable, delicious but heavy.
Went on a Saturday night - they were full to the gills. When you convert a craftsman home to a restaurant, there's not a lot of space between tables, and the minimal but warm decor couldn't dampen the noise level. The waiter was utterly pleasant, knowledgeable and patient considering how busy they were.
The food was artistic to the point of being overly precious, and was delicious with expertly crafted combinations of flavors. The spot prawns with pasta was average, the lamb pot pie was superb, the sirloin on fennel was mouth-watering, the pumpkin panna cotta with pumpkin-seed brittle was a perfect combination. Every dish was unnecessarily rich, like the beet salad with horseradish mousse that tasted great but was like having heavy whipped cream on salad.
They make a big deal of the daily gourmet cheese selection paired with flavors like quince or honey on the comb, but the $15 cheese plate we shared had 3 small slices that could have been eaten in one bite each on a cracker. $80 per person for cocktail, salad, main course, dessert, and only 1 of 4 had wine. So, I say, memorable but expensive.
My guy scored major points for taking me to Tilth on Halloween date night. Everything was excellent. The restaurant is small and cozy, but not stuffy. The atmosphere was warm and romantic, but not cheesy. Our server was friendly and super helpful. She assisted with the wine selecting, she described each of the cheese options, and she answered all of our main course questions. We especially liked how each of the menu items ordered were spaced out and not brought out to us all at once.
We loved every bite of the following ordered:
Baby Lettuce Salad
3 NW Artisanal Cheeses (can't remember the names, this is the best I can do: Bleu, CA milk, Montesano milk)
Prawn Special (daily special not on the menu)
Mini Duck Burgers
Top Sirloin
The prawns, specifically, were cooked perfectly... so tender and flavorful.
Amazing night out.
Visited Friday evening for dinner, and left feeling completely satisfied and taken care of by this Seattle gem. This small restaurant, converted from a Wallingford craftsman home is the perfect setting for delicious food with beautiful presentation. We each ordered the prix fixe with wine pairings for one, and were impressed with nearly every course. Service was thoughtful and attentive, pours were generous, and the atmosphere was comfortable for our 2 hour+ stay.
Definitely worth a visit for dinner if you are looking for artistic interpretation of fine cuisine in Seattle.
Tasty, tasty spot. Went there for my anniversary dinner. It was a little loud inside, but the service and food made up for it. John, our waiter, was attentive, but not overbearing, and also very knowledgeable about the menu. We started out with cocktails, which were well crafted. We did the 5 course tasting menu. Timing on the dishes was perfect, the food was adventurous, but not too exotic. Rich, but not gluttonous. I'd definitely recommend and will certainly be back.
Enjoyed the prix fixe menu last night, which was solid from beginning to end, but was appalled that the small wine pairing pours. For $35 we got five 1/3 glass pourings, which works out to about $20 a glass. The first pouring was about 10-15 before our first course and we ordered another glass of wine to split. That full glass was $9 and when split, was a much larger pour than our first.
Enjoy the tasting menu, but you're better off ordering matching wines by the glass instead of the $35 ripoff. A full glass of each of the 5 could have been had for $50. Maybe our server was just chintzy but I'll pair my own wines in the future.
I went for dinner the other night and it was substantially better than brunch. I think it is really overpriced, but the service was THE BEST service I've had in Seattle (okay, at least up there with Ray's Boathouse). I don't remember our server's name, but he knew so much about the preparation of the food, where everything came from, and every ingredient in everything. We were with a couple who keeps kosher, so they wanted to make sure there was no pork in anything they were ordering. A lot of servers would say, "I don't know, let me check," but this guy really knew what was in every dish.
Very nice experience. I probably won't come back often because it is a little too pricey, but I recommend it if you want to go somewhere with excellent service.
Brunch review:
After hearing so much about this place, we finally got around to going this morning…
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My good friend Miss Mary Ann D. (holla!) recommended this as a nice place to come for a great meal and was she ever right about that (she is a good foodie to know if you are coming to Seattle). From the moment I walked in, I felt welcomed as if to the home of a close friend. The restaurant is in a lovely converted Craftsman bungalow with a mostly white interior and soft lighting. I sat at a small table in the main room, facing the fireplace, and settled in with my book. I felt immediately comfortable and knew I was in for a treat from the very first interactions with the waitstaff. I decided to go with the five-course tasting menu since I knew it would be awhile before I could return, and boy am I ever glad I did.
Since I don't know how these reviews will be sorted in the future, I will repeat the contents of the Autumn five-course tasting menu (another reviewer just did the same thing):
-- Chilled heirloom tomato soup poured on top of a perfect crouton and a few sliced cherry tomatoes -- divine. Among the best cold soups I've ever tasted.
-- Albacore tuna with glazed carrot, basmati and a lovely homemade chutney.
-- Riicotta dumplings that were melt-in-your mouth delicious, not at all gooey or chewy, served with beans and pork sausage. Unusual and spicy and very nice.
-- Thinly sliced top sirloin served with anaheim pepper, which was really creative and worked, atop romaine lettuce.
And the final course:
-- Theo chocolate ganache cake with chocolate cookie, cocoa cream, sea salt -- un-freaking-believable. Sooooooo good.
And, all of that for $50, which might sound like a lot but compare that to the current prices at Chez Panisse -- which I believe Tilth easily rivals -- and then it sounds like a positive bargain.
I wish I could go back again soon, but it will most likely be a little bit longer than I would prefer. Oh, and I left absolutely stuffed and, believe me, I can eat *a lot* of food, so I don't know how anyone could complain about the portions. They seemed perfectly sized to me.
Lovely place, great food, nice people. Thanks for a great dining experience, Tilth!
Went for brunch. Food: pretty good. Service: lacking. Necessities: lacking. Friendliness: lacking.
Clientelle: probably the worst group you could imagine. Yuppies with loud kids, picky couples, older rigid folks, unhappy faces.
Could be a really good spot, but probably not going back due to the stale and rigid atmosphere.
I can't believe I forgot to write a review for Tilth!
My wife took me here for my birthday. We were doing some restaurant hopping and she was so excited to take me here.
The drinks were perfect... my wife was disappointed by hers and told our waiter. He asked a couple of questions about her drink style and came back with her original drink just tweaked a little and she fell in love. How many waiters actual listen and contemplate to what you hoping for and then actually provide it?
What I like were the sizes to the portions. You could tailor them to what you wanted (with in reason) so you could try more than one dish. Too many times I see more than one item and I want to try it all. Here you can try more than one...AWESOME!
The restaurant is well laid out and still has a feeling of being a house.
I literally just got home from dinner at Tilth. (okay, we actually had to go see a movie before we could drive, due to the generous wine pairings with our tasting menu)
Tilth has been on my list for quite some time and my mom was in town and invited me out. You never turn down a mom's dinner invitation, particularly if she is offering to foot the bill for your pathetic under-employed self.
We got there around 6 and by 7 the place had really filled up around us. We still received the same attentive service all night, regardless. Our server, Rebecca, was awesome. Genuinely excited about the food and really wanting to impart knowledge. Some people just want to grub, but my mother and I like to hear a good background story.
We started with an amuse bouche of (i believe) some sort of squash soup with candied pecans. delicious. Then a sampling of three cheeses with various accompaniments. Of course I have spaced on the cheeses but I must say, the triple cream that we had with truffle salt and truffle honey was spectacular.
Side note: I know truffles/truffle oil/truffle this/truffle that is all the rage but I have a really difficult time with it. I am pretty sensitive to the flavor and had sort of given up on even trying dishes with truffle, as most chefs seem to have a heavy hand. NOT SO WITH TILTH! The tiniest touch of truffle on this cheese just made it a little warmer and richer and earthier. It was perfect. I would even consider ordering their truffle risotto if I were to go back, something I would never do elsewhere.
After the cheeses I was a little tanked and couldn't decide what to order. We chose the 5 course tasting menu (with wine pairings, obviously).
Everything was really delicious and the flavors were spot on. The tastings consisted:
*chilled heirloom tomato soup (the perfect amount of salt!)
*albacore tuna with glazed carrot, basmati and ginger apple chutney (chutney added just the right amount of sweetness and pop)
*house made ricotta dumplings with epazote, shell beans and spicy pork sausage
*top sirloin with anaheim pepper, blue bird grain farro and romaine heart (the spice from the anaheim pepper was unexpected and unique)
*Theo chocolate ganache cake with chocolate cookie, cocoa cream, sea salt (mindblowing!).
I typically think it is a cop out when people say that dessert was their favorite course. This dessert is near, if not at the top of, my list. I think it has something to do with the dessert wine paired with it (something about being distilled through brandy, but everything was a little hazy this late in the meal).
All in all, my first experience at Tilth was wonderful and I will definitely be going back. Today was dark and stormy and had me craving heavier late fall/winter meals and while I was not at all disappointed by the offerings, I would like to return to see what they have for me later in the season.
I saw a few people had mentioned the small serving sizes, and perhaps because we ordered the tasting menu our experience was different, but a few of the dishes even seemed a bit large for a typical tasting. We definitely left full and happy (and more than a bit tipsy).
High quality food, but small portions. However, a small portion by my standards is probably the correct size portion that an average person should be eating. : ) Brunch entrees tend to be around $13-$17 which is a little pricey given the portions, but given the local fresh ingredients, it really isn't that bad!
I really like the "home" vibe, and it is definitely a nice intimate place to get brunch with a small group of friends. The place is really small, and it doesn't look as though they take parties with more than 4 people.
I am by no means a "foodie" but I know good food when I taste it and Tilth has AMAZING food. My sister and I both had the Chef's Tasting Menu. Each course was perfectly prepared and excellently timed.
I think it says a lot about the food that with each course we tasted, I thought to myself, this is something I could (attempt to) make at home. It is pure and fresh and simply delicious food. No fuss, no attitude.
And forget about wine pairing (maybe). Their homemade sodas are to die for. We had the sarsaparilla and the apple-ginger and both were excellent.
Tilth's food is as subtle as a drunken frat boy philosophy major. Every dish has a great foundation of local, fresh ingredients but each is ruined by some obnoxiously overpowering flavor.
Who knew a Chinese soup spoonful of "amuse bouche" could ruin the subsequent meal by sledgehammering the tastebuds with way too much pickled onion? Or a duck burger's only lasting impression was of Tart Chinese Plum Candy because of a bushel of plums piled on each? And how could a trio of subtlely flavored ice creams be ruined by the extremly loud shortbread cookies hidden underneath each?
There is such a thing as being too bold. Just go clubbing... or try Tilth.
What a fabulous brunch experience!
Though we had reservations, it took the hostess a while to seat…
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Seven words: Cheddar Biscuits with Smoked Pulled Chicken Gravy. Amazing! Tilth is a super cute restaurant with very friendly service. I've been there for brunch twice and everyone has been very satisfied and full. I still need to make it there for dinner...
The food was tasty at Tilth and creative, but there just wasn't enough of it. All 3 in my party left a bit hungry, and that was after dropping about $60 per person at the place.
I love old houses, and Tilth is in a charming house (if sparsely decorated), but I froze the entire evening. It was one of those sunny breezy summer evenings where the temp might have been mid-60s. I guess some in Seattle consider that tropical, so the front door was left open the entire time. We were seated in the only available table which was right smack in front of the front door. I'm not one to make an issue of an open door if no one else is. Besides, even if I had made an issue, it wouldn't have helped. Patrons were coming in and out and the servers were using the door to serve outside in the front patio. (I'm convinced Seattlites are oblivious to cold when it is sunny.)
Good food, but not enough, and the dining atmosphere wasn't comfortable, so Tilth, unfortunately, only gets 3 stars from me.
I really enjoy coming to brunch here. The boyfriend and I don't often do it, but when we do, we've been going here the past few times.
I had the cheddar biscuits with chicken gravy topped with a fried egg today. SO GOOD! The boyfriend had the crab fritata, which seriously had more crab than it did eggs! I'm not a seafood fan at all, but it was pretty tasty! Our friend had the granola with yogurt and fresh fruit. It was beautiful! Peaches, figs, strawberries, and raspberries. Gorgeous.
The best part? They let us sit on the patio with the puppy. The waiter and waitress were wonderful to us and especially sweet to the puppy. How can you not love a place that not only allows us to bring the puppy, but gushes over him as much as we do?!?!
I have yet to try dinner here, but somehow I suspect Maria Hines can't go wrong.
Unfortunately a number of small problems joined forces and prevented me from having a very enjoyable experience here.
First, none of the menu items really looked that appetizing to me. Items like "tomato water" and "grilled cucumber" just don't sound great. I'm trying to keep my carb intake very low, so it was a bummer that the tastiest-looking item was the House-Made Ricotta Dumplings. Regardless, I ordered the small green salad and the Poussin with a "Salty Poodle" to drink.
I suppose I should have known there would be salt on the rim of my drink, but it didn't say so in the menu. I don't like salt on the rim of my drink. And overall it wasn't very tasty.
The salad was quite good, but the pieces of baby lettuce weren't torn properly and required either extra cutting or, my method, cramming large bites into your mouth. This immediately set off an alarm in my head - attention to detail is important.
The Poussin - a fancy word for young chicken - was underdone. The texture as I cut into it felt tough and raw but it was too dark in the restaurant to see whether the meat of the thigh was actually pink inside. What made things worse was that the waiter took his time checking in on us and I sat without taking a single bite for five loooong minutes while we tried to get his attention.
Another low-rent moment was when he said he would "bring it up to temperature" for me (another way to say "finish cooking it"). I expected that they'd just fix me a new dish, or do something, anything, to offer their apologies - taking something off the check, a free dessert... nope. Just another loooong five minutes and the same cut-open chicken.
Oh yeah, they did give us a small plate of their "famous" fingerling chips. Eh. Salty, not very flavorful.
Unfortunately, the dish didn't end up being that impressive either. It was a little too salty. The side of corn cake was tasty but was gone in three bites.
My wife's heirloom tomato soup was probably the best thing either of us had.
I'm kind of in love with Tilth. I ate there 2 weeks ago and couldn't believe the real old-fashioned hospitality showered on me, my hubby, my dining partners and their children.
Not only was the food top notch (hello, duck burgers!) but the staff was so sweet to tailor our dining experience to meet the needs of the little ones, fast-tracking their courses and, more importantly, dessert!
The restaurant has a very comfortable decor and was snuggled into downtown Wallingford, a cozy area of Seattle dotted with boutiques and cafes.
I'm so in love, and hope to hit up this little spot next time I'm in town.
Went again this week after a few visits and a couple of years thinking this was one of the better restaurants in the area. It was very disappointing. We got the $50 five course tasting menu, which included chilled tomato soup, seared tuna, ricotta dumplings, top sirloin, and a chocolate ganache cake.
Everything was mediocre at best. And room-temperature. The highlight was the sausage which was a garnish on the dumplings, and everything else was mostly eh. How do you screw up tomato soup? Do they put together the tasting menu to sell off the dishes that no one is ordering? Anyway, this was NOT a $50 meal, and I am planning to stop recommending this place to people. Oh well.
chris
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Delicious and not over-filling. I rarely have meals when I strongly contemplate ordering more than 1 entree for brunch, but this was one of them...only because the portions weren't over-sized. I came here with 3 other friends for an early brunch, and at around 10:30am on a Saturday, the ambiance was quiet, warm, and comforting. (Perhaps it would have been more jam-packed had it not been Labor Day weekend.)
We started with the Local Fruit Plate, and ordered the Tilth's Toad in a Hole, Dungeness Crab Frittata, Bourbon Vanilla French Toast, and Baked Dutch Blueberry Pancake. The fruit plate was good, and even had figs, though the peaches were somewhat overripe. The Toad in a Hole was quite an interesting concoction, since the (brioche?) bread was extremely crispy, and the egg in the center (of the hole in the bread) was still somewhat runny. The ham hocks that were served with it were slow-cooked to be really tender! The frittata was too salty, but tasty nonetheless. I enjoyed the baked pancake, because the homemade 'farmer's cheese' that topped it tasted like a citrus-infused ricotta. I enjoyed the chantilly cream atop my french toast more than the french toast squares themselves...mostly because I prefer flufflier toast and these were instead heartier and whole-wheat-er.
Overall, good. Perhaps it would be better if I were going on a diet, but for now, it's something I'm very happy to have tried once, yet won't need to revisit within the next year.
Is this place for real? I heard so many wonderful things about it and was so dissapointed when I went there. I even brought my mom there, figuring it would be a great Seattle dining experience.
We spent way too much money for hardly any food. The waiter recommended getting a lot of small plates of entrees and splitting them, which means just spending even more money. I really don't understand why they are charging so much for everything. I guess I don't have the "gourmet" mindset, but this just isn't my thing. I can just cook at home with my organic vegetables, okay?
So, if you like a pretentious and fancy dining experience where you pay a lot for tiny plates of food, this is a good place to go. Otherwise, try some place else. We paid over 100 bucks for a mediocre dinner for 3 people. NOT WORTH IT.
My fiance took me to Tilth for my birthday. Let me get the less than perfect stuff out of the way first: The restaurant closed at 10p so we felt reasonably comfortable arriving at 9-9:15p (we made reservations). We ordered the chef's tasting menu and wine courses. We ended up feeling rushed - the next wine course being served while we were still eating the course before and having half of that entree still. I know some say we shouldn't have ordered a more complex meal but if the restaurant is open and we didn't walk in five minutes before closing, why rush us - I have prefaced all my verbal reviews with this.
Now, onto the good stuff. We had recently been in Paris where the prix fixe menus were almost 100 euros so the $55 tasting menu with $35 for the wine pairings seemed like a bargain. However, note that the entire table has to order it so we did. The amuse bouche was wonderful - pumpkin with some grain. The first course of a sun choke soup was decadent but not too creamy. The second course, spot prawn was what I anticipated being less than great but it was perfection, the risotto was to die for (I wanted to go back and ask to lick the pan) and the beef was so killer. Then we had Theo chocolate dessert - decadent. And what I really liked was that it had a salted choc sauce on the side so those of us who aren't into the salted choc/caramel craze don't have our dessert ruined and my fiance was able to enjoy an extra taste. The wine pairings were great and somewhat experimental - the rioja with the steak was fantastic. And anytime you pair banyuls with chocolate, you have my vote.
So overall, I am still a fan. The place is quite cute. We were seated by a window so it was a little chilly but not awful. I would recommend based on the food but cannot give it five stars because of the feeling of being rushed.
I'll start with the bad: Sous vide eggs are not tasty.
We picked Tilth for our "Ides of Brunch" (March 15 fell on Sunday, the brunch day this year). It's quite an honor and we discussed where to have this momentous brunch..it was here. The reviews were very exciting and we couldn't wait to go.
First: Prep. We donned laurel headbands and one person wore a toga. We brought a bottle of BRUT sparking white for mimosas. Get it..."et tu, Brute?"
We show up and are seated immediately......behind the door we entered. The door opens to the left and bumped into the table we sat at. Yup. Okay fine.
The menu, now I have always ordered eggs bene, so I naturally selected Dungeness Crab Benedict. The others ordered Croque monsieur, Dutch apple baby, French Toast, and Duck sausage.
Now, sous vide means cooking in a vacuum (sealed plastic) at a low temp for a long time. The sous vide egg was available as a side called "best egg ever" or something. Sounded very promising.
It was terrible. Maybe I just am not a fan of sous vide or maybe they did it wrong..but..the eggs still looked raw (more than usual for eggs bene). The whites were still gooey and opaque. Ick. The crab was represented by a tiny sprinkling of some shreds. Lame. I quickly stirred up my dish just so I wouldn't have to look at the gooey eyes and ate quickly.
Everyone else's food was amazing though. The Dutch apple baby...sooo sweet! The croque monsieur was tasty! The French toast divine. Somehow my dish was the worst and smallest (not to mention most expensive of our group).
Other than that, the service was okay except we had called before and mentioned bringing our own bottle of wine. When we arrived they told us it was a $20 corkage fee. Why wasn't this mentioned on the phone? And no one bothered to ask why we were dressed strangely, heh.
I don't know if I'll be back, but if I am, I will avoid sous vide, sous hard. (I had to!)
I guess they'll nominate just about anyone for a James Beard award these days.
Our brunch experience was the biggest dining let down while visiting Seattle last weekend. The service was absolutely terrible. The guy who sat us took our drink order when he gave us the menus, brought us our drinks about ten minutes later, and never came back to the table. I'm not kidding. At least six waitresses walked by. We waited 25 minutes (I counted) before somebody came over and asked if we had been helped yet. That would be a NO since we still have our menus. She didn't apologize.
I had the duck burgers and confit chips. People raved about them on here but they're truly nothing special. The chips were a total joke. Who cuts skinny ass fingerling potatoes horizontally and calls them chips? They were under salted and are possibly the smallest chips I've ever seen. They were about as big as the pennies in my wallet. I didn't know if I was supposed to eat or pay with them.
Very little food. Very big price tag.
There were three of us at the table. Each of us ordered ONE dish and ONE Bloody Mary. The bill was $82.50. For brunch. For what we got the bill should have been around $50 at the absolute max. My jaw dropped.
I will never eat here again.
Went here for my birthday and was pretty content with the meal in general. The cheese options are fabulous, and the food has good flavor (hooray for organic!).
The swirl of different waiters/people attending on us got a wee bit confusing, and I had wished to develop more of a relation with a singular member of the wait staff, but I assume this aided in getting us through "the system" faster.
I could probably get talked into eating here again if someone else was paying.
PS-the fromage blanc cheesecake bit was disappointing. :( Not as good as the one I make.
Tilth is an adorable little restaurant, it has a very happy, inviting atmosphere that just makes you feel good when you walk in. I love that! The food was good, if not a bit confusing..
We started with their housemade sarsaparilla- WOW this was tasty. I would have ordered more if it didn't cost so much for such a teeny little glass of the stuff.
The Mini Duck Burgers, we of course had to order those! They were very tasty- the chips served with them were very good, but were so tiny and such a small portion that it was almost a joke.
The "Cheddar Biscuits + Smoked Pulled Chicken Gravy" were pretty far off from what I was expecting- my husband even asked the waiter what was on my plate. The biscuits weren't biscuits, I don't know what they were. They were big square pieces of *something* that just seemed like thick slabs of congealed fat... Really weird, I don't know why they called them "cheddar biscuits". They tasted okay, but the gravy would have been SO good on actual cheddar biscuits! So this dish just confused me.
We also had a side of the Maple Duck Sausage- good, but I didn't go crazy for it.
I'd consider coming back to try them out for dinner some time- those duck burgers WERE pretty great!
Food at Tilth is aaaaAhMAYzinG! Sooooooooo savory and scrumptious! I always show the Organic cuisine LOVE when I find such places!
Stumbled in here with my girlfriend after being told Portage Bay was over an hour wait for Sunday Brunch. We were WAY too hungry to wait, so we stopped here at Tilth upon finding it open to us. So glad we skipped Portage, because we ended up here, eating cheddar biscuits and drinking some damn good coffee. Atmosphere here is fanstastic, too.
Ordered a macaroni broccoli and fried egg dish, and refused to share any of it. GF ordered a pancake, and made sure every bite was enjoyed with sweet apple.
Definitely recommend eating here, and enjoying some find foods in life. Would never have thought to combine the ingredients they used in their dishes, but now I know to never discriminate, always try new things!
MMMMMMmmmmmmmM!
Although I felt slightly underdressed upon entering the restaurant, the manager did not hesitate to show us to our seats at the bar when we told him that we were just there for drinks. Whenever I asked for wine and drink recommendations, the manager always tried to accommodate my tastes, and when I told him that I was unfamiliar with a sparkling white wine that he had mentioned, he brought me a tasting. I would go back for the service alone.
I also tried their cheese plate. In general, I am huge fan of goat cheese, but here I found that I preferred the other kinds of cheese that they offered more.
We had gone to Tilth a few months ago just for desserts and fell in love with the tiny house turned into a restaurant.
Fast-forward to yesterday, Happy Birthday to ME my baby took me to Tilth for dinner.
We decided to order a bunch of small dishes and share everything. We started with drinks of course, I don't like anything too harsh, so the server suggested "The Ginger Slip" and he could make it a little sweeter by adding more simple syrup and less ginger. It was fantastic and I am so glad he could cater it to my tastes. We also had a drink called "Old Pal" .. we probably should have asked for this one to be sweetened up some too but it was still great.
We started our dinner adventure with The amuse bouche - a Chickpea salad thingy, this was fantastic. Next up was a 3 cheese plate, no blue's at my request and we had 3 of the best cheeses I've tasted so far. All served with something to accompany them. We moved on to Chilled Heirloom Cucumber Soup that I could have ate by myself, it was so good I didn't want to share...
From the appetizers, we move on to our main dishes.. starting with Sous-Vide Sablefish. The texture scared me a bit because it felt raw, however was fully cooked and the dish was so so good. Following the Sablefish was the Grass-Fed Hanger Steak.. Medium Rare was suggested, we said more Medium... and I think we got more Rare... and while the waiter asked for the egg on the side due to my own allergy... it was atop the salad anyways and he was promptly to our table as the waiter who brought it out set it down to apologize and ask if he should take it back due to an allergy. Thankfully it's only bad if I ingest it, and I was able to move the egg to my loves plate without breaking it. He absolutely loved that egg. With the steak we had Fresh Flageolet, i loved this dish, he thought it was too salty .. which I admit, I could taste what he meant, but I liked it that way.
Following the was the infamous Mini Duck Burgers... a bit too undercooked for my liking, but I ate the whole thing and loved every bite. The fingerling potatoes were cut like coins instead of length wise, which is OK but it makes them so tiny, but man were they good.
For dessert we had House-made Ice Cream ...sweet corn, chocolate, and mint julep. The sweet corn was heavenly, but the mint was too garden green tasting for me. I enjoyed them all though. My Dessert was Strawberry Shortcake with an almond biscuit, chantilly, and strawberry coulis.... I shared... but I didn't want too lol. It was so amazing.
The parting wishes that came with the check, Heirloom Yellow Watermelon Basil soda... very tasty.
I've noticed allot of people mentioning that their checks were outrageous for the number of people. I can't really say it was. 8 dishes and 2 drinks and it was around $125.... Which honestly, is not bad. It compares to the bill I would see from Salty's, SeaStar and Cheesecake factory.
Though after reading a few posts maybe I should have mentioned it was my birthday and dessert would have been Comped... ahh well.
Bottom Line, Tilth has amazing food, an awesome waitstaff, and a cozy environment... It's the place to go if you love presentation as much as you love food!
Now if the patrons drinking a bit too much would learn to keep their tone at the same level it was before they started drinking it would be 100% perfect. A quiet space can get awfully loud real quick when people start drinking.
Food snobs will bore you to tears with what's wrong with Tilth. Or at least that's what I think they're saying. Here's what you need to know - bring a cool date. Ask for recommendations. Get a bunch of small plates. Secretly pretend you snuck into a U-Dub grad school party in someone's recently renovated Craftsman. Drink enough to need a walk afterward.
Wow. This place definitely surprised me. I had heard great things from a few biased friends (they know the staff), but I was genuinely impressed with everything from my cocktail and wine to the many different small plates, not to mention the wonderful and welcoming staff.
From the outside I had no idea what to expect, it's a little green house in Wallingford right on 45th. There is a cute little patio out front and a nice, warm, candlelit ambiance inside. In a few select words, comfy, cozy, private and intimate.
My friend and I enjoyed a cocktail (or two;)) first, then moved on to dinner. We proceeded over the next two hours to taste (they have two sizes of their dishes, one for tasting that is smaller, more for sharing and ordering a few; or larger, entree portions) several, and I mean several, small plates. Everything that we ate was amazing and tasted simply delicious. I know that mostly everything they serve is organic and they try to source locally, which just added to the appeal of everything on the menu. Our server, Cole, was very knowledgeable and assisted us in selecting our courses. He recommended wines to pair with everything and then timed our selections so as not to bombard us with too much all at once. Much appreciated!
All in all, my friend and I had three courses (I wish I could list you the items, I had too much wine to get them entirely correct) and dessert, along with a cocktail or two each and quite a bit of wine, and we couldn't have been happier. We had such a wonderful experience that we didn't leave until they practically kicked us out.
I will definitely be returning upon my next trip to Seattle!
Orgasmic experience!!!! I was looking over the reviews and thinking to myself, how could anyone NOT like this place? So I feel a little bit bad for them, but it won't sway my review a bit. I only went once for dinner.
I was lucky enough to have a friend introduce me to this place, because I'm a tourist and I never would have known it existed. He goes here a lot, so we got great service (but I made the reservations without him and the manager was super sweet to me). The staff is pretty pushy on their food items, however, I think it's because they really love what they make. I got great advice for cheese, and we just ordered a lot of little things instead of getting big meals. After all that plus desserts and wine, the bill was huge for just 3 people. So... I probably won't be going back anytime soon on my budget.
But WHAT A MEAL it was amazing. I really have to give it to these people, they know what's up. What's even better was the selection of local cheese. It was phenomenal and paired perfectly -- we're talking truffled honey and jams. yum yum yum. I got the lomo to go along with it... heaven! Did I mention the local wine yet? Or the local produce?
OK I need to stop gushing about this place. Just go. Run!
Oh wait I did remember something disappointing. The sasparilla. And the avocado dessert. I must've forgotten. Selective memory!
Went there sunday night for a celebration dinner and the experience was very positive. Good food - check, Good Ambiance - Check, Good service Check ... everything was positive. It didnt get 5 stars only because it was lacking in quantity.... seriously tilth, please give some more food for the price :)
I live in Wallingford and want to fall in love with Tilth. I really do. I tried it a year ago for dinner and experienced some of the most memorably awful service in my restaurant-going history. The food for dinner was solid, although I did notice that just about every dish (minus the duck burgers) had prosciutto in it somewhere, which seemed strange. Don't get me wrong, the food was good, but our party of four left feeling slightly hungry and fairly underwhelmed. Needless to say, we decided to eat dessert elsewhere.
Fast forward to today, one year + one James Beard award later. I had been reading a lot of buzz surrounding Tilth's brunch lately, so we decided to give the restaurant another go. The service was much better this time around, and the food was good - (scones, french toast, benedict, bacon). Everything was pretty tasty - especially the scones - but the benedict was actually a bit cold and the French toast was not really warm either. It was a good meal, but did not knock our socks off. We've had better - Serafina, Dahlia Lounge, Maximilien's ...
I've been three times. The service was not good the first time, but not bad enough that we couldn't smile and laugh about it. The second time I went I brought my visiting mother and was horrified by how bad it was. It was brunch and although only three tables were filled (it was late in the service) our coffee and water was never refilled, our waitress was rude and not particularly knowledgeable and the food was really uneven: the pulled chicken and biscuit was amazing, but the truffled egg I got was essentially inedible because of the amount of truffle oil poured on it -- a weird problem since the stuff is so expensive. It's one of the only two times in my life I haven't left a tip.
I went a third time by myself maybe 8 months ago and sat on their porch -- I had one server (a man) who was really kind and come out twice to refill my coffee mug. I got the pulled chicken (delicious) but still ended up owing over $20 without even getting an alcoholic beverage.
I think it's nice in theory with some standout items (the duck burgers) but horribly overrated in practice. Maybe I need to revisit it and see if anything has changed in the last few months.
Hard to go wrong here. The duck burgers are especially awesome, and they may have the best salmon in Seattle. I'm not that into super arty organic food but everything I ate was great. They could use some more local beers on the menu.
My boyfriend and I introduced our parents to each other at Tilth. I was very nervous about the parental introduction, especially since no one had tried Tilth yet. When trying a new restaurant, I'm always afraid that I'll show up for a high-stakes dinner and find animal droppings under the table after the server has sneezed in the food we didn't order.
Tilth blew our entire party away. Our server saw that we weren't quite sure how to manage the small plate courses, and said, "Hey, let me take you for a ride. Sound good?"
What a sweet ride it was. Several small but substantial courses, spaced out beautifully, delivered by charming but discreet service. Most impressively, the kitchen accomodated a single vegetarian with thoughtfulness. Instead of giving everyone else at the table their chicken and giving me fava beans, chef managed to create meatless versions of the plates so that I could participate in the conversation about and experience of the food.
Recently, we returned for my birthday brunch. Warm scones, potatoes, french toast... fabulous, fabulous, fabulous. And everyone at my table said that the duck sausage was bomb dot com. Thank you, Tilth!
I've been here three times and I swear, each time it gets better!
The service is great - casual but attentive and informed. A number of reviewers have complained about the service, but I've always found servers friendly and professional.
The food is to die for; seriously good! The cassolette and duck burgers are favs. I've only been for dinner but after reading some of these reviews, will make plans to go for brunch.
Located in a charming bungalow in Wallingford, the atmosphere doesn't disappoint!
I am a Chef in Portland, and my wife and I just spent a few days in Seattle checking out the food and drinks, and Tilth was definatly a high light for us. We went to brunch on July 5th, and the staff and the food was outstanding! Truffled scramble, Crab Benedict, even the coffee, espresso, mimosa and sarsparilla soda i had with dessert were spot on.
It is always hard to not be too subjective when I go out to eat, because I cook for a living, but I had no problem with anything! Even when I asked for some salt (cook's palate) I received a plate with Murry river pink salt from Australia, some of the nicest salt you can get.
I also want to thank their new chef de cuisine Larkin for cooking a great meal and coming out so say hi to us. Nice bro.
Thanks again, Anthony @ Tabla in Portland
disappointing. i had my little local food self revved up too much for this experience i guess. for what we paid (and oh did we pay) it just wasn't worth it.
i'm sorry but my boyfriend and I eat from the farmer's market and CSAs and he can make a far better meal for half the cost and twice the belly filler. my belly needs a lot and this just didn't cut it. pretension is worth nothing.
oh, and let's hope the pork belly trend is over soon. god help us all.
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