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Palisade
2601 W Marina Place, Seattle, WA
http://palisaderestaurant.com/page/home
Review date:  October, 2010

We chose Palisade for Sunday brunch. It's a view restaurant, so we were expecting decent if not exciting food. It's a spacious older restaurant, located in the marina quite close to where our Holland America cruise ship berthed last week. The view is of Seattle's downtown and Queen Anne district, with the weather a trifle cloudy but bright.

Palisade handles their brunch differently than other restaurants. They have a buffet section with salads and cold seafood, as well as a hot station making pancakes. But diners also order a sit-down, waiter-served main dish from the menu, either a breakfast-type entree or a more substantial main-dish entree. Although the buffet is available separately without the entree, the cost is only a few dollars less, so everyone opts for the full entree-plus-buffet route.

The crab and shrimp were plentiful and fresh if not exciting. There were some good salads, such as quinoa with goat cheese and an excellent Washington apple salad, diced fine with dried cherries, which were a nice change from what's usually offered. 

Mel ordered the smoked salmon omelette and loved it, which would certainly astonish anyone who knows her well, as she's always hated smoked salmon until we sampled some from one of the Pike Place Market vendors on our food tour the day before. 

Christie had the Breakfast Benedict, which was puff pastry holding scrambled eggs and ham. I chose the crab hash with poached eggs, which had a very mild Hollandaise but a generous amount of shredded crab mixed with crisp bacon bits and some red and yellow bell peppers. Carlos chose the tiger prawns, which were quite good. All these ranged from $27-32 per plate including the buffet, so quite a bit less than one usually pays in the SF Bay Area.

The desserts weren't exciting either, but the chocolate creme brulee and coconut macaroons were quite good. The view was expansive, service was decent, parking was easy, and we were more than satisfied, for $175 with tip.