Elliott's Oyster House
Seattle, WA 98101
Phone: (206) 623-4340
- Price:
- $$
- Cross Street:
- Seneca Street
- Specialties:
- Seafood, Waterfront Dining
- Best of Citysearch:
- Seafood 2007, Raw Oysters 2006, Raw Oysters 2006
- Hours:
- Sun-Thu 11am-10pm, Fri-Sat 11am-11pm
Editorial Review for Elliott's Oyster House – by Citysearch Editors
In Short
All teak, copper and rough-hewn timber, Elliot's is most inviting when the weather cooperates. The long south-facing deck provides sun for lunches and early dinners, and sea-fresh dining for the nighttime crowd. A 21-foot oyster-shellfish bar sits opposite the entrance, where expert oyster shuckers and crab crackers skillfully prep crustaceans. Oysters and Dungeness crab are highlights, but in true fish-house tradition, the menu runs long with various preparations of local and Alaskan seafood.
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Insider Tips
ParkingAt lunch, the Republic lot across the street offers one-and-a-half hours of validated parking; after 5pm, use the complimentary valet.
Save MoneyHappy hour is progressive. Get there at 3pm for bargain oysters; their price rises every half hour, but other snacks and drinks stay cheap until 6pm.
What to DrinkTry a flight of different rum varieties for something different.
User Reviews for Elliott's Oyster House
07/10/2008 Posted by 4FoodCritics
7/2/08 for lunch & 7/7/08 for dinner. Years ago traveled to Seattle and really enjoyed this place. Love the food, location, views and atmosphere. Boy were we disappointed in their management. On 7/2/08 for lunch it took us 3 hours to eat--waiting for service, waiting for order, waiting for appetizers, waiting for soup, waiting for lunch--took FOREVER. We gave them a 2nd try for dinner 7/7/08. We lost count of empty tables at 15 or 16 and those were just INSIDE the restaurant, there were a bunch of empty tables outside AND we had to wait 30 minutes to get one of those empty table. Rediculous. The waiters were literally standing around and regularly checking with the hostess for customers to be seated at their empty tables. After checking with the hostess a couple times, we grabbed a waiter and he was able to get us a table--made no sense. Once we were seated, the service and food was great. The management clearly doesn't have it together. Having customers standing for 30 minutes with dozens of tables empty is just bad management--had to mark them down for that. Would I eat there again probably, but if I walk in and there is empty tables and have to wait more then minutes, I'm out of there! My time is valuable too and there are plenty of excellent restaurants in the neighborhood!
Pros: Great location, views, food
Cons: Lack of management, inconsistent service
04/15/2008 Posted by 2forlunch
My husband and I ate at Elliot’s a couple of weeks ago. Two words: over-priced and over-rated. The waitress was very friendly and chatty as a distraction to try to get you to order things you didn’t really want. For example, I ordered a bottle of wine and she made a remark walking way, mid chatter, something about a wine with another name other than the one I had ordered. I quickly looked at the menu and noticed that the one she named was $43 a bottle and the one I wanted was $27 a bottle. When I called her back to make the correction she was a tad snobbish about it, like I didn’t know what I wanted. The same thing happened later when we ordered raw oysters. We ordered the $23 selection and she brought and charged us for the $30 selection, twice, because we ordered two orders. We expected the raw oysters first, and indeed did see the oyster guy set our order out for pickup rather quickly. But the waitress walked by it several times and didn’t notice. All of a sudden she appeared with our salad and entrée’s at the same time. The oysters were still sitting on the bar. A few minutes later she appeared with the oysters and made some comment about them finally being ready, when we had been sitting there eying them for 30 minutes or more. Now to the food. In addition to the raw oysters, which were the best thing we got but certainly not worth $30 a dozen, we shared one shrimp salad and one order of pan fried oysters. The shrimp salad consisted of two romaine lettuce leaves with a small mound of chopped fresh tomatoes on one end, half of a chopped boiled egg in the middle, and crumbled blue cheese on the other with frozen tiny salad shrimp sprinkled on top, topped lightly with a bland dressing of some sort. The 6 pan fried oysters were overcooked to the point of tasting burned. All this to the tune of $150 for the meal and we left still hungry.
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