The Room
Salty's opened on Alki Beach in 1983 — Seattle's longest-running Alki Beach waterfront seafood institution, with a wraparound deck that looks across Elliott Bay to the downtown Seattle skyline.
The Seattle Times has held Salty's on its top-waterfront rankings every year of operation. The Sunday brunch buffet is one of America's most-photographed weekend services.
The Food
The Pacific seafood programme — daily-rotating coho salmon, halibut, Dungeness crab — runs as the menu's spine. The seafood tower for the table, the wood-grilled whole-fish, the seasonal Pacific bivalves handle the menu's wider draws. The Sunday brunch buffet is the main draw.
Wine programme tilts toward Champagne and Pacific Northwest whites. Cocktails are classic-American. Service is the long-running Salty's brigade book.
Best Occasion Fit
Proposal: The corner deck table at Salty's at sunset is one of Seattle's most-photographed proposal venues.
Birthday: Birthdays at Salty's are warm, Pacific-seafood-led, waterfront affairs the room has hosted for over four decades.
First Date: The deck at Salty's at sunset is one of Seattle's most-cinematic first-date settings.