Skip to main content11:30 am-10 pm Monday-Thursday, 11:30 am-1 am Friday-Saturday, 10 am-9 pm Sunday. $$-$$$ Moderate-expensive.
[BEER AND BISQUES] While Davis Street's handsomely rustic decor suggests the cocktail bar at the end of the Oregon Trail, the finest attractions aren't the ones you drink, but the ones you slurp: specifically, two of the best bisques I've ever tasted. The Dungeness crab bisque is poured hot from a ceramic carafe onto a bed of crab meat and roasted artichoke hearts, and is flat out the most delicious thing I've eaten this year; the tomato bisque appears on the lunch menu, accompanied by an artisan grilled-cheese sandwich perfect for that tomato-soup dipping experience you remember from your luxurious socialite childhood. But everything on the menu at this Old Town bulwark (which feels the breeze of the passing MAX Green Line) is delicious, with portions that leave just enough room for a microbrew to accompany the old-school vinyl spun on weeknights. The lunch menu is packed with deals: An open-faced tuna melt BLT, with the tuna salad freshly chopped and piled with cherry tomatoes and braised pork belly, is a decadent reinvention of the countertop staple, while a chilled shrimp and frisée salad was good enough to derail an interview. AARON MESH.
Ideal meal: A cup of the Dungeness bisque, followed by the Carlton Farms pork loin with cumin slaw and jalapeño-green apple reduction.
Best deal: The tuna melt BLT, $10.
WWeek 2015