Restaurant
MORE INFORMATIONCity/neighborhood: Bellevue Cuisine: Seafood Hours:
Lunch: 11:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday-Friday; Meals:
Lunch Reservations: Recommended Make reservations Alcohol: Beer, Wine, Liquor Payment forms accepted:
Parking: Valet parking, Validated parking Disabled access: No obstacles to access Features:
|
Seastar Restaurant & Raw Bar (Bellevue)
205 108th Ave. N.E.
Bellevue, WA 98004-5770
Phone: 425-456-0010
Fax: 425-456-0020
Web site
Maps & directions
DESCRIPTION
Seafood is the lure at this spacious, expensively furnished restaurant, but neither carnivores nor vegetarians will go hungry. Owner/chef John Howie's menu includes triple-tiered sampler towers that showcase some of the best appetizers, such as roasted tiger prawns, crab cakes, scallop ceviche and Hawaiian ahi poke. Lunch and dinner entrees vary slightly. Look for halibut with avocado/tomatillo relish over corn-flecked mashed potatoes, pumpkin-seed-crusted sea scallops in tomato coulis and peppercorn-and-sesame-crusted seared ahi. At lunch, Seastar offers a quick, inexpensive menu of soups, salads, raw fish and deli sandwiches served in the long rippling bar. For dessert, go for the banana spring-roll sundae.
NEWSPAPER REVIEWS
The Seattle Times (review)
READER REVIEWS
Average reader rating:
All reader reviews | Write a review
Reviews 1 - 2 of 2
fine dining in east side -- NOT!!!
Posted by Savvy Diner on 05/13/2007
The only tolerable food that we ordered was the Seastar Appetizer Tower. The main course tasted awful (poorly seasoned and prepared), fresh vegetable tasted either old or over-cooked (leather like), and the service was really, really bad.
Posted by Savvy Diner on 05/13/2007
The only tolerable food that we ordered was the Seastar Appetizer Tower. The main course tasted awful (poorly seasoned and prepared), fresh vegetable tasted either old or over-cooked (leather like), and the service was really, really bad.
| Request removal |
not impressed
Posted by karolaj on 09/28/2006
My husband and I went to the Seastar for our anniversary. Since we sere eating late we chose to share some appetizers and salads. The Blue cheese salads were really good and the service started out ok. The appetizers we got were clams, the scallop trio and the seafood sampler - a mountain of shaved ice with tiger prawns, oysters, scallop seviche and king crab. Of the appetizers, two of my three scallops had sand in them, as did a couple of the clams. The tiger prawns were over cooked and slightly rubbery. In a restaurant that specializes in seafood and charges exhorbitant prices, this is unacceptable. Also, our server disappeared the last 20 minutes of our meal we had to ask the busboy for the check. Not acceptable when the bill for 2 salads, 3 appetizers and one glass of wine is $112 before tip.
Posted by karolaj on 09/28/2006
My husband and I went to the Seastar for our anniversary. Since we sere eating late we chose to share some appetizers and salads. The Blue cheese salads were really good and the service started out ok. The appetizers we got were clams, the scallop trio and the seafood sampler - a mountain of shaved ice with tiger prawns, oysters, scallop seviche and king crab. Of the appetizers, two of my three scallops had sand in them, as did a couple of the clams. The tiger prawns were over cooked and slightly rubbery. In a restaurant that specializes in seafood and charges exhorbitant prices, this is unacceptable. Also, our server disappeared the last 20 minutes of our meal we had to ask the busboy for the check. Not acceptable when the bill for 2 salads, 3 appetizers and one glass of wine is $112 before tip.
| Request removal |
