Wedgwood Broiler
Seattle, WA 98115
Phone: (206) 523-1115
- Price:
- $$
- Cross Street:
- 85th Street
- Best of Citysearch:
- Bloody Mary 2006, Group Dining 2006, Power Lunch 2005
- Hours:
- Daily 11:30am-10pm
Editorial Review for Wedgwood Broiler – by Anna Roth
The Scene
This so-old-it's-retro hash house is the perfect antidote to a bad weekend, the kind of spot where prime rib is the weekend special, waitresses call customers "hon" without any trace of irony and the most exotic thing on the menu is the teriyaki marinade on the broiled chicken breast. An assorted crew of aging regulars and neighborhood denizens fill the smoky glassed, wood-slatted dining room and the fantastically noir dark-wood paneled cocktail lounge.
The Food
Think expertly prepared comfort food, circa 1958. Salads come heavy on the dressing and garnished with Cheez-Its. The house-ground hamburger dip, with its dark, complex au jus, should not be missed for love or money. Chef's dinners, including liver and onions and London broil, are delivered with a side of mushy green beans and potato of choice, either baked, mashed, hash browns or fries. Dessert is--what else?-- a hot fudge sundae topped with a cherry.
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Insider Tips
Know Before You GoKids enjoy their own menu, a toy box filled with goodies and crayons and paper tableside.
Look GoodEating champions can step up to the 72-ounce steak dinner challenge, where the contestant must finish the steak, tomato juice, soup, salad, fries, bread, ice cream and coffee within an hour or pay for the entire meal.
When to GoThe lounge closes at 10pm, but you can still get a drink at the bar every night of the week until 1am.
User Reviews for Wedgwood Broiler
03/23/2008 Posted by richard907
Ragu Boy must have a chip on his shoulder (and no, I'm not an employee -- just a satisfied customer). This place has excellent hamburgers, and some of the best reasonably-priced steaks in town. It's certainly not fancy, but their hamburger dip is simply perfect (definitely my favorite) and the chicken fried steak is the best I've found in Seattle. We always eat in the bar (not the restaurant) and the waitresses know us by name and are always great.
Pros: High-quality food at reasonable prices
Cons: Not fancy -- don't go there expecting The Met
03/17/2008 Posted by The_Big_Ragu
Citysearch readers rated the hamburgers here as no. 10 on the Best of Seattle list. Wow! What were you thinking? Maybe Wedgwood employees write a lot of reviews? Having read the reviews on Citysearch, and seeing the high ratings for the hamburger, my wife and I decided to go there last Friday night (3/14). At first it appears as the reviews have stated; kind of a throw-back to the place your grandparents used to like. Complete with some older staff and an older decor, like an older steakhouse. The service was deathly slow, but we had read that too. The salad was as advertised; covered with Cheese Nips which actually wasn't too bad. We both ordered drinks and they were strong and well prepared. The hamburger, on the other hand, was made of quality beef and the buns were toasted, That was the extent of their positive attributes. The patties were overcooked (even crispy on the edges) and doused with some god-awful seasoning that was probably loaded with MSG and offset the BBQ grilling flavor so that they tasted like charcoal lighter fluid. We both had indigestion for the rest of the evening as a momento of our experience. We did order our fries overcooked and, of course they were overcooked, imagine that. The waitress was inattentive and oblivious to what was going on and who was trying to flag her down. She didn't come back and ask us if the food was good she only came back when we were done and gave us the bill. No where on the bill were instructions as to how to pay it. There is usually something like 'please pay your server' or 'please pay at the cashier' and of course my multiple attempts to flag down our waitress were unsuccessful. So we found the cashier and paid the bill and there was no positive dialogue at all. No 'how was your meal' or 'thanks, please come back' nothing and nothing will ever bring us back. They had all the tact of a AM/PM clerk and, surprisingly enough, the hamburgers were like the ones at AM/PM with that phony BBQ taste.
Pros: I lived to write this review
Cons: food, service, atmosphere, value
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