Lowell's Restaurant Seattle

Our neighbor 2 stalls over, Chukar Cherries!

Chukar Cherries has some great unique dried fresh berries, cherries and chocolate covered treats. We use their dried cherries to garnish drinks in our bar, because well, why not? Different because who else where else can walk two doors down and grab something that no one else has? Its pretty awesome having such diverse neighbors left, right, up, down, sideways, diagonal, whatever direction you want to go! There are over 200 shops and restaurants and stores and hide aways all over Piker pLace Market. Grab one of the maps at the info booth in front of where they throw the fish, and come into Lowell’s for a “pit-stop” in OUR hide away! Head to the bar on the 2nd floor, or have a bite to eat on any of our 3 floors, and pore over the map and make a little plan on what to see and where to walk to around here. We’re all friends and neighbors, we’ll stear you in the right direction!

~Mark & the family clan of Lowell’s, running around our water-view “hide away in the market to take care of you all!Chukar Cherries

Lowell’s Mixed Seafood Salad, Anna Cheung’s favorite lunch, every Friday, at the back 3rd floor window table!

Mixed Arcadian Field greens with Dungeness crab, hot smoked fresh local salmon, grilled & chilled prawns, baby cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, paper thin sliced radish, hard boild boiled egg and 1000 island dressing on the side! Alway’s on our menu, just ask Anna!

Happy Holiday’s from your family at Lowell’s!

If Anna loves our "Mixed Seafood Louie" salad, you will too! Anna has turned more friend's onto this salad than Ashlea & Ron have turned people on to our fantastic grilled alaskan Cod tacos!

If Anna loves our “Mixed Seafood Louie” salad, you will too! Anna has turned more friend’s onto this salad than Ashlea & Ron have turned people on to our fantastic grilled alaskan Cod tacos!

Lowell’s Fresh Home-made Wild King Salmon Lox & Bagel Plate!

We make our fresh wild king salmon LOX fresh weekly (the time it takes to brine and weight) for a whole different (and better, according to our New York "locals" visiting!

We make our fresh wild king salmon LOX fresh weekly (the time it takes to brine and weight) for a whole different (and better, according to our New York “locals” visiting) for the joy of serving fresh, authentic, local and tasty! This is our Lox & Bagel plate with our house pickled Bermuda onions, imported capers, our citrus-herb cream cheese and toasted bagel. Oh yeah, we make it the classic way, only fresher, enjoy.

 

Lowell’s Butternut Squash-Sage Soup, tomorrow’s soup of the day!

Nice iPhone picture, eh? I know, you thought it was a professional, stock photo, bought from an internet site of food pictures, BUT NOOOO, taken with a free photo app on my phone! Bragging? Well, not really, (it does have really grainy details and the artsy bouquet of sage next to the bowl may be a little much!) it’s just that I’m just amazed that my phone makes us look so good (I mean, our food is GREAT!) but the fact that a free photo app would take as good of pictures as a Nikon or other expensive camera is extraordinary. Of course, if I handed my phone over to a pro, then it would look even more beautiful, but we have fun.

Stop in tomorrow for Juan’s great cold weather bone-warming Baked Butternut Squash & Fresh Sage Soup at lunch time. The fresh sage inside and on top of the creamy, deep rich flavor of the squash is extraordinary. It’s a simple philosophy; fresh & simple ingredients from the neighbors around us, then let those flavors shine on by themselves, like nature allows. Beautiful, tasty, simple and fresh, just like Pike Place Market…

~Mark (but Juan gets the credit!)

Anotrher one of Juan's great fresh soups; vegetarian baked butternut squash & sage soup with LePanier fresh baked baguette on the side

Anotrher one of Juan’s great fresh soups; vegetarian baked butternut squash & sage soup with LePanier fresh baked baguette on the side

 

 

Lowell’s Breakfast Cooks…they rock our mornings with the best professional skills found anywhere!

Our loyal breakfast pros. Two of the crew, all dedicated to you daily from 7AM through lunch and dinner!

Our loyal breakfast pros. Two of the crew, all dedicated to you daily from 7AM through lunch and dinner!

Javier and Hector arrive at 5 to start the day fresh, grinding up fresh braised corn beef hash, and then giving it a nice sear. Blanching the fat off of the bacon so it will crisp up nicer (we use a thicker smoked bacon then other restaurants (10-12 slices to the pound instead of most places 14-16 slices to the pound, huge difference!) which needs to be done beforehand if we’re to finish up the bacon to order without spending 20 minutes to do it!

I’ll brag about our cooks all day long, because they are incredible! Every time I travel anywhere, I’ll Google “The Best Breakfast Place in ______” whichever city I’m visiting, and see how we square up. Man, I’ve had great breakfasts in LA, San Francisco, Chicago, New York, etc. etc. But I always miss both our All American breakfasts and Pacific Northwest breakfasts, all using the freshest local ingredients from Pike Place Market. We do not rest on our unsolicited laurels, framed in our front window, and we take nothing for granted.

In our kitchen, which is a very small space compared to ANY restaurant (smaller than most home kitchens, actually!) Lowell’s cooks are the best! When lines go out the doors on weekend’s mid-morning or throughout the summer days with cruise ship guests arriving in droves, these cooks can plate fresh handmade dishes with professional accuracy of plate presentations of beautifully original breakfasts combined with the efficiency required to serve three floors of 150 guests daily!

Then, they switch out the kitchen for our lunch cooks, and the phenomenal jobs they do. I thank them all, and I thank Juan, my loyal kitchen manager/”chef” (he’s so humble, his job is all about support and responsibility, as opposed to “look at me wearing a fancy chef’s jacket” chef-dom ego tripping)! Watch them any day of the week and be impressed with their focus, it’s all about you, our guest’s, and they know it!

~Mark