(photo added 1:53 pm)
Previous reports on the new restaurant opening this Saturday in The Junction (California/Edmunds) sparked a lot of wondering about its menu; Table 35 has now posted the menu online, from sushi to steak to salads – see it here (with descriptions and prices).
I think it sounds awesome. I already know what I want to try at least the first three or four times I go.
I wish them luck…this menu is “all over the place” in style and selection….really hard to execute consistently. But, gotta’ give them a chance…good luck Table 35!
Awesome! I’ve been trying to tell everyone that what Seattle has been missing all along is an Italian- Japanese- mid-eastern- Hawaiian- Cajun restaurant.
interesting, yes…but really hard to read..the black lettering really fades into the dark brown background….
decent prices, too..
you might tell them their hours are wrong, unless they’re really only going to be open 2-3 hours a day. ;)
Any idea if their hours during the week are temporary?
Mon-Thurs 11am-1pm & Fri 11am-2pm
I agree with the above, this menu is way too big and all over the road, usually a recipe for failure. Cut out the stuff everybody serves (fries, wings, sushi) and focus on the interesting items (duck appetizer) and cut the menu items by 75%. Good luck!
MB, the hours are probably another web work in progress. Mon-Thurs 11 am-1 am, Fri-Sat 11 am-2 am, Sun 10 am-2 am is what it says on the sidebar of their Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/West-Seattle-WA/Table-35/221221057913
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(as of this moment they hadn’t posted the menu announcement on that page; it was announced on Twitter, where they’re at
http://twitter.com/table35
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TR
I tend to agree with onceachef. This menu is ambitious. I wonder if they’re deliberately starting with a shotgun approach to see what people respond to. But too much variety on a menu can lead to “choice paralysis” and lower sales.
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Recently there was an interesting piece in New York Magazine with a break-down of the menu for Keith McNally’s NYC restaurant Balthazar. It was interesting to see how the clever arrangement of menu items (and even placement of prices) can have a positive effect on a restaurant’s business:
The hours are puzzling-perhaps a misprint?Looks like the latest they are open is until 2pm on Friday-but Happy Hour is from 4pm-close!?
The menu looks great-I wish them well.
Anne, please note what I posted earlier in the comment thread. The website obviously is still a work in progress but in all my communication with the Table 35 folks, I believe what’s on the FB page to be correct – TR
Same old, same old. The proof’s always in the pudding. It’s all baloney, it’s just how you slice it. Over 50 menu items? I’m scared!
Right on about the menu being hard to read – trendy colors but not user-friendly. So the happy hour is really more like a happy few hours…
This reminds me of Shadowland, which started out with a very ambitious menu and has since trimmed it back considerably.
LOVE the menu; the great variety, many of my favorites
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and now someplace to go for many palates, besides the Seattle Center or mall food court; how cool to fill my desire for diverse Asian/sushi/spicy and others in dining party can choose from huge variety of just about everything; now let’s just hope the food is good
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also LOVE the prices; it’s about time; I worked in fine dining restaurants for 20 yrs, and have been completely put off past 10+ yrs at insanely high prices AND breaking out into small plates for same price that used to be dinner that included soup/salad, veggie, starch, bread
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also LOVE seeing FRIED ZUCCHINI on menu; that was my favorite along with calamari for many years, but seemed to disappear from every menu, and for reasonable price; oh I can hardly wait
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how about a westseattleblog dining out gathering? Looks like there’s something here for everyone
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oh and re the hard to read online menu; I just did “select all” to highlight, brings up bright white letters; works for me when websites try to get cutesy with dark backgrounds that make content impossible to read
Good catch, Diane! Only 2 other places I can think of seeing fried zucchini in the past year … Carl’s Jr. (stopped in the Tacoma store when we went to Zoolights at Point Defiance in December) and White Spot in B.C.!
the menu looks awesome…nothing too weird, and the variety is good.
Hello All!
Thank you for your comments and concerns. For the record…
The hours on the website are incorrect here are the correct times:
Monday- Thursday 11 am – 1 am
Friday 11am – 2 am
Saturday 10 am – 2 am
Sunday 10am – 12 am
We will also get the website colors and formatting issues resolved asap. Thank you for your patience.
Table 35 Mgmt
Yes, it is insane that prices have increased over the last ten years, what with inflation, rising shipping costs and the crappy economy. Just shocking!
Menu looks good to me! And open until 2am YAY!!! Definitely not trying to start a debate, but do we know if it’s 21+ or not?
Readability by Arc90 makes most websites easy to read.
I just discovered this yesterday and it sure helps with this menu page!
http://is.gd/5N9Nj
Joe’s has excellent french fried zucchini. Not heavily breaded zucchini coins like Carl’s (which have a place as well), but light, thin chip-like rounds served with fried lemon and basil. Tasty.
I also think Table 35’s menu is very schizo. I think I’ll wait to see how it’s received before giving it “its day in court”.
Oh yeah, just had great fried zucchini spears at Claim Jumper last week. The happy hour serving was the perfect appetizer size for my husband and I.
thanks for fried zucchini tips; now I’m really hungry
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so where is Claim Jumper and what is/where is Joe’s
No vegetarian entree option…? There are a lot of us out here and we love to support our local restaurants.
I think I saw this same menu at the buffet in the Bellagio. Same owner?
Menu looks amazing if it can be pulled off. Some items will probably fall by the wayside eventually, but you gotta love the prices. It’s great to see a semi-swanky restaurant in West Seattle charging ‘casual’ prices. Also, great to see that they’re keeping most of Ama Ama’s decor. I loved their updated 50’s atmosphere. Hope the lounge side can pull in more peeps than Ama Ama managed to. I think that will determine success or failure.
Good luck!
The online menu is pretty hard to read because of its not so good brightness. Also, I am a professional raw fish eater, and if they are charging $12 for Poke, that better be a damn good portion and no more than day old fish. I’ll know if its worth the price or not. Looks pretty pricey. I guess Happy Hour is more to my wallets likeing.
“Awesome! I’ve been trying to tell everyone that what Seattle has been missing all along is an Italian- Japanese- mid-eastern- Hawaiian- Cajun restaurant.
Comment by Zgh2676”
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:-D Right on!
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There is such a thing as *too* ambitious when it comes to a restaurant menu.
Good luck T-35! Great to see a place like this that intends to be open late on weekends – the ol’ Junction could use some night life.
Personally I think the menu looks great. Definitely ambitious and if they eventually scale it back a little it should still have at least 2-3 choices for whatever the mood.
Can’t wait to visit! So happy to see some of the ama ama interior still intact. No sense in trashing the good design. No more judgement till I’ve experienced the place…
We appreciate your concerns and comments!
@Zgh2676 – my personal favorite comment of the day!
@christopher – yes we are starting big and we will probably see what works and what doesn’t. The menu isn’t really that large, I think that the format of the current website gives you this huge “list” which makes it bigger that it is… it’s a work in progress!
@Rawkgrrrl – we are adding a vegetarian entree! We also will have gluten free items available!
@msfan – Yes, we do own the Bellagio.
Thanks,
Table 35
clearly Table 35 has great sense of humor, one of the best assets on road to success
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good food, and make me smile, wins my heart and loyalty
I have this weird theory that the reason stuff doesn’t succeed in that location is lack of parking. Sounds ridiculous, because there is a ton of free parking around, but I think there is some sort of psych barrier to not having a parking lot right behind or in front of your establishment in West Seattle. Or lots of street parking. May I humbly recco that the owners make some sort of arrangement with the pay lots immediately across and behind the restaurant? It broke my heart when Ovio closed, and I was very very sad when Ama Ama closed too. GOOD LUCK TABLE 35! I’ll happily walk to my first evening there. :-)
The parking worries are goofy indeed. Not only is there *some* free street parking the pay lots are not expensive AND this place is right on the bus line…
I am curious about the parking issues from ArborHeightsMom. I never have a problem in the Junction. Now, Belltown, Capitol Hill, Lower Queen Anne, there’s a problem. But we do live in a major Metropolitan city….
I like to see that Table 35 has a sense of humor. Can’t wait to try it!
way too ambitious. I question whether you can have truly quality fresh ingredients with that many menu items.
I think the menu sounds great — and best of luck to them! (Maybe we shouldn’t all scream gloom and doom about their ambitions and just send good vibes).
But…I am curious. Is there a children’s menu? I think lots of restaurants in West Seattle fail because they think they are serving the Belltown Singles crowd…guess what? West Seattle is full of families and there are enough bars to go to without children in the three-block Junction!
I think the menu looks fabulous… something for everyone or something for every mood. I can’t wait to try it out. Ovio Bistro was our favorite restaurant and we were so sad when it closed. The food there was always interesting but I think it was really the service that impressed us the most. Unfortunately we never got in to Ama Ama so I hope this one makes it. Anything’s gotta be better than the overpriced and pretentious Spring Hill!
a couple of suggestions on beer:
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while i like georgetown’s ales, *everyone* serves manny’s. and in my opinion, red hook and alaskan taste like dish water.
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there are a lot of new local breweries that are getting distribution and some older ones that haven’t compromised their beers for mass-brewing. check out big al brewing, two beers, schooner exact, and elysian. (personally, i would love to see north coast brewing’s (CA) red seal ale on tap somewhere in west seattle.)
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you have an ecclectic menu; why have the same old beers?
? What was in that spot since Godfathers Pizza? Guppy’s, Ovio, Ama Ama… Did I miss something? My point is that something is wrong with that locale? Way too many restaurants went thru that spot in the last eight to nine years. Just saying.
Uh oh… apparently we were *too* happy about the good prices… they’ve all disappeared… ;-)
Yeah Me…you can’t find something on this menu for your kids to eat??? Fried zucchini..that seems to be the big favorite here…there’s nothing like deep frying a fresh vegetable to get the kids to eat them! :)
How many restaurants can West Seattle really handle? Don’t get me wrong, I like choices, but it pains me to see places fail. It’s not a secret that restaurant bussines is all about volume. And there are only so many of us westseattlelites here. I hope the fine people at Table 35 did their homework. Good luck !!!
We will have a children’s menu available (with crayons for coloring of course!)
but will there be a gluten free childrens vegetarian menu?
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(glad to see you mention adding Gluten free stuff. more and more people are headed that way..)
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…more and more people are headed that way…
Thank you for a very astute definition of West Seattle …:)
Mar3c – good point about the beers. Not only for taste, but small business should support small business. Good karma! and i love mannys, but agree it is everywhere. Good karma, too if table 35 has a good, fair wine menu and reasonable corkage fees.
to onceachef
Do you have children? My child will not eat anything that she has not had before..so no, she will not eat Fried Zzucchini (but I will!). I was just asking about the child’s menu as I think part of the Breweries success is that it is so family friendly. I would love to see another fun and fab restaurant that caters to the whole family (note: I said Part of the success).
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