Roe

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   Allison VIP

   Seattle12 reviews

   5.0

   Dined 1 day ago

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 4
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 3

   The food and service are impeccable. The ambiance is a bit stale for such upscale prices, but that’s easy enough to tweak
   

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   LindaS

   San Francisco8 reviews

   5.0

   Dined 2 days ago

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   We had an amazing dinner at Roe! The food was all so beautifully and lovingly prepared. I can’t wait to go back again.
   

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   OpenTable Diner

   Seattle1 review

   5.0

   Dined 3 days ago

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 4

   absolutely amazing food! highly recommend this restaurant!
   

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   stefandlin

   Seattle4 reviews

   5.0

   Dined 3 days ago

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   The entire meal and dining experience was superb. This is a restaurant with a huge commitment to delicious interesting food. The service was personable, helpful, and attentive. I believe that Roe is the finest restaurant in Bellingham.
   

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   BethL

   Seattle6 reviews

   5.0

   Dined on 2 March 2025

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   A delight in every bite. Excellence in ingredients, preparation, ambiance and service. Already looking for an opportunity to return.
   

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   Ivancovich

   Seattle2 reviews

   5.0

   Dined on 28 February 2025

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 4

   The food was exceptional and the service as well. Our server Jess was knowledgeable, fun and professional. The beet salad with radicchio and blue cheese was so good I can't stop thinking about it. Will definitly be back!
   

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   Harte

   Unspecified1 review

   5.0

   Dined on 27 February 2025

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 4

   We've been to this location when a previous restaurant operated here. The kitchen was much the same, with the addition of a great bar overlooking the kitchen. We sat at the bar and thoroughly enjoyed watching all the action and attention being placed on each order. We had a nice conversation with the owner/chef to understand the philosophy of the restaurant. We both had the Ling Cod which was fabulous with a variety of flavors that overlapped each other with amazing surprises. I commented that this dinner was in the top 3 of all top-of-the-line meals I've enjoyed in my 75 years on this planet. We will definitely be making Roe a recurring date-night choice. We ate at 7:30 as the main dinner crowd was starting to leave, but the noise level was still quite high. I would recommend either earlier or later if you want to carry on a conversation. I was gold Sunday is best for an intimate experience with smaller crowds.
   

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   Nicki

   San Francisco12 reviews

   5.0

   Dined on 27 February 2025

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   Excellent! The salmon appetizer, best ever! Our new fav!@
   

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   Mike

   Seattle2 reviews

   5.0

   Dined on 23 February 2025

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   Each dish we had was perfect particularly the black cod which had mussles and parsnip along with it.
   

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    Lydia

    Seattle7 reviews

    5.0

    Dined on 23 February 2025

    1. Overall 5
    2. Food 4
    3. Service 5
    4. Ambience 5

    Sometimes great restaurants try to do too much to food, combining too many flavors or textures and forgetting the beauty of simplicity. While Roe is an excellent restaurant, I believe this is happening... First, we loved the salads at Roe - the combination of flavors and textures worked. I know we would have loved, loved, loved the focaccia if it were just focaccia: the addition of the serrano ham might have been okay, but having it sit in a "broth" of a sweet alfredo sauce made it too gloppy and unappetizing, without really adding anything to the beauty and flavor of the focaccia. Also, the Dungeness Crab mixture on a hashbrown was indistinguishable as crab, and rather than let the crab flavor (buttery and delicate) shine through, it was overwhelmed with the saucy mixture. The steamed clams and ricotta gnocchi were both excellent. Overall, the service and ambiance are great. We'll certainly go again and hope to see a few more menu items that enhance the flavor of the main ingredient rather than try to combine too many flavors into the dish.
    

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