2017 Northwest Herring Week will take place June 19-25. The following Seattle restaurants and groceries participated in Northwest Herring Week 2016. Please stay tuned for 2017 participants, and stay tuned to our “Menu Items, Photos & News Blog” page for news, updates and what each establishment will be serving!

* = continuing to serve a herring dish after Northwest Herring Week concludes. If restaurant has “*”, but dish does not, then restaurant is likely featuring a different herring dish currently.

Grocers:

Restaurants:

  • *Altstadt
    • Bratherring [Recipe]
    • Herring Steckerlfisch [Recipe]
    • *Herringsalat
  • Anchovies & Olives
    • Grilled herring with salsa verde, orange, fennel, and Fresno chilies
  • *Art of the Table
    • *Tempura fried herring, smoked herring parfait, wakame salad, grilled green onion, shiso oil, dashi gel
  • *Bar Melusine
    • Smoked Herring, summer squash, radish, herb vinaigrette
  • Bastille Café & Bar
    • Smoked Herring Pate-Pernod/Baguette Crutes
    • Herring Brandade Fritters-Artichoke Aioli
  • Blueacre Seafood
    • Escabeche of Alaskan Herring, roasted corn & poblano relish, pickled radish
    • Togiak Viking Pickled Herring, horseradish sour cream, pickled onion, toasted seed bread
  • Etta’s
    • Fried Herring with Cherry-Frisee salad and Mint-Dill cream [Recipe]
  • Joule
    • Salt and vinegar cured herring, sea bean relish, seaweed gremolata
  • Lark
    • Herring Toast: grilled herring on house farro bread with dill, fennel & cucumber (available for lunch at Slab)
  • Le Petit Cochon
    • Togiak Herring “Old Bay” Escabeché, Snap Pea and Fava Bean Panzanella, M.F. Ranch, Collins Farm Peaches, Pickled Onions, Mustard Dill, Tempura Squash Blossom
  • *Little Uncle
    • Geng Som Pla – Southern Thai Sour Curry, spicy with Togiak herring, green papaya and greens
  • Loxsmithbagels
    • Herring and the Hendersteins
  • Luc
    • Cold poached Herring appetizer with pickled vegetable, potato salad, Olive and Petit Pepper Tapenade
  • Marine Hardware
    • Tomato-Marinated Pickled Herring with Fennel Salad [Recipe]
    • Seared Herring, Fingering Potato Salad, Brown Butter with Pickled Elderberries
  • Miller’s Guild
    • Woodfire Grilled Herring, Warm Potato Salad, Red Wine Vinegar, Washington Coast Seaweed, Citrus.
  • *Old Ballard Liquor Co. [Basic Brine Recipe]
    • *Traditional Swedish Pickled Herrings Bord: Blood Orange & Rhubarb, Classic Inlagd Sill, Curry Cream Herring with Tart Apple, Dill Herring, and Smoked Cream with Chives and Citrus Zest. Served with rye and barley flatbread, of course!
  • Orfeo
    • Hot Smoked Alaskan Herring with olive oil roasted potatoes, spanish chorizo, pickled goat horn chilies & espelette
  • Palace Kitchen
    • Smoked Alaskan Herring Pate, english cucumber, red quinoa, blueberries, pecan toast
  • *Pork Chop & Co.
    • Charmoula-marinated Herring with mustardy Potato Salad
  • *Revel
    • *Smoked herring pancake, chermoula, rapini, bagna cauda
  • *Salted Sea
    • *Cold Soy Marinated Herring, soy, ginger and rice wine vinegar marinade, with cucumber, pickled shallot, toasted sesame, red chili, and wonton crisps
    • *Smoked Herring Hush Puppies with Sambal Ketchup [Recipe]
    • Pan Seared Herring, with heirloom cherry tomatoes, ginger, shishito peppers, and butter
  • San Fermo
    • Antipasti Board: Cured Herring , Salame Gentile, Spicy Capicolla, Marinated Zucchini, House Pickled Vegetables, Burrata and Pecorino Toscano
  • Schooner Exact
    • Togiak Herring Oshizushi, lightly cured with salt, pickled with rice vinegar then torched, served atop sushi rice and shaved, marinated kelp, topped with grated ginger, scallion and ponzu sauce
  • Shiro’s Sushi
    • 鰊と蓮根の煮物 (Herring and Lotus Root) [Recipe]
  • Stoneburner
    • Roasted Herring-Pimenton, Green Shallots, Chickpeas, Butter Lettuce
  • *Sushi Kappo Tamura
  • *Swedish Club
  • Terra Plata
    • Alaskan Herring, piquillo pepper-golden raisin peperonata, pine nut gremolata, grilled bread
  • The London Plane
    • Seared Herring with sum choy, shiitake & oyster mushrooms, dashi, garlic scapes, ginger, tea leaves and flying fish roe
    • Pickled Herring with house-made labneh, rye toast, red onion, Old Chaser Farm French breakfast radish
  • The Walrus & The Carpenter
    • Herring escabeche, rye, caraway
  • *The Whale Wins
    • *Togiak Herring Butter on Toast, Pickled Onion
    • *Oven-Roasted Herring, Fermented Snap Pea, Sea Bean, Smoked Potato, Garlic Crumbs, Sweet Mayo