Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Beer on Bainbridge

Last Saturday my brother and I took the ferry from downtown Seattle over to Bainbridge Island. Since we were planning on doing a bit a drinking we took the bus down to the ferry dock and walked onto it.

Once the ferry arrived in Winslow we walked through town to find a restaurant he had read about called Harbour Public House & Marina. It was kind of hidden from the street, but if you follow the Waterfront Trail you will run right into it. They have three things going for them.

  1. Good food

  2. They are not the first place you run across, so there are fewer day trippers

  3. Killer view




Once there we settled in for some beer and food..
First up was a Dark Sour from New Belgium. The beer was tasty, smooth with just a bit of sourness, the perfect thing to drink on a sunny summer day in Washington. This was actually my second, the hostess knocked over my half full first one, so they gave me a new beer. That was the only hitch in the afternoon

I am a big fan of seafood.. I try to eat it when I can but it is normally out of my price range due to limited funds. One of the specials Saturday was cioppino, which is a fisherman's stew with tomato based sauce. The same sort of idea as bouillabaisse, but with an Italian sensibility. As you can see it was loaded with clams and mussels, there was a good bit of salmon and white fish (Pacific cod I think) in there as well. I had an Eightmile Alt with it. The malty flavors paired well with the spicy broth in the stew. My brother had the Asian Salmon Bowl, he said that was really tasty too.

Next up was dessert. I have three desserts I always try to order if they have it, most places don't have any of them. The Harbor Inn had two of the three, so I had to decide between Bread Pudding and Key Lime Pie. In the end I went with the pie, mainly because it was a warm sunny day and the bread pudding was served hot. I had a dark and stormy to drink, which went great with the pie. Most of what I write about on this (woefully infrequent) blog is beer, but I like a good cocktail as well. So much so that I also ordered a Mojito afterwords. I also had an apricot cider before we left. Did I mentioned that we were NOT driving on this little trip? Yes? Good.

After we left we took the ferry back to Seattle. One thing to note is they only charge pedestrians for the west bound leg, east bound you can just walk right on. Once back we stopped off to get some taffy from a shop down at the waterfront and then made our way back to the bus stop. It was only a few blocks, but from the water everything inland is uphill, and the hill is steep. That coupled with the fact that I am way out of shape made me glad to sit on the bus. Even if we were stuck in the traffic from the Torchlight Parade for 20 minutes.

Next up I am going to see if we can do the same trick to Bremerton.

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