{"id":1888,"date":"2015-07-02T23:56:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T15:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/?p=1888"},"modified":"2019-02-03T15:50:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T07:50:11","slug":"millers-guild-good-sides-and-seafood-main-event-lacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/2015\/07\/02\/millers-guild-good-sides-and-seafood-main-event-lacking\/","title":{"rendered":"Miller’s Guild – Good Sides and Seafood, Main Event Lacking"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went to Miller’s Guild in downtown Seattle, a restaurant known for its huge wood-fired grill, recently. It was my second time back at the restaurant after coming here last September. Unfortunately, I think I liked it more the first time around as the signature thick slabs of steak\u00a0were not as tender as I’d anticipated.<\/p>\n

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The restaurant is part of the trendy Hotel Max<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The entrance to the restaurant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The sides were, in my opinion, the\u00a0best part of our meal. From my first visit, we really liked the grilled Romaine lettuce salad (which is tasty as it’s dressed\u00a0with halibut cheeks, pancetta and a lemon basil dressing) and the scallops. We didn’t try the thick cut meat at that time. Miller’s Guild also serves smaller individual portions of steak, so perhaps this would have been the better option for us this second time around as well.<\/p>\n

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The large wood-fired grill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Besides the scallops and the salad, which were still good, we had the ash roasted beets and watercress salad, the curry roasted cauliflower, grilled artichoke, grilled asparagus and the gruyere mash potatoes. Being a bunch of ladies, we were big on the greens. The first time I came, Miller’s Guild had the best brussels sprouts I’ve every had (it’s not one of my favorite vegetables). Unfortunately, it wasn’t on the menu this season.<\/p>\n

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Ash roasted beets salad<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Grilled romaine hearts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Curried cauliflower was nicely roasted<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Grilled artichoke<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Thick, juicy scallops<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The steak was a 90-day dry aged bone-in Niman ranch ribeye – a huge 43 oz slab. Miller’s Guild cuts this thickly – around\u00a0two inches. Unfortunately, this ribeye wasn’t as tender as I hoped it would be. I think I would have liked a\u00a0standard\u00a0cut better as I think the flavors from the grilling would have permeated more.<\/p>\n

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Thick cut steak – our ribeye, alas, disappointed somewhat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The dessert was very good – an ice cream sandwich made of oatmeal cocoa nib cookies and\u00a0chocolate malted crunch ice cream (our selection). We\u00a0added hot fudge sauce to it.<\/p>\n

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Ice cream sandwich<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Overall, I think I’d stick to the seafood and sides at Miller’s Guild and leave steaks to dedicated steakhouse restaurants such as the Metropolitan Grill. The service was good\u00a0– knowledgeable and not pushy. Perhaps my one complaint was that the meats were not as hot as I would have liked\u00a0when they got to our table. We had a bottle of the\u00a0LIOCO Indica Ros\u00e9\u00a0which is from\u00a0California and a 2010\u00a0Conterno Fantino Barolo. The latter drank nicely and went well with our food. The former was refreshing but there are much better European\u00a0Ros\u00e9 wines at the same value point I had elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Outside of the Barolo, the big ticket item for us was the steak (USD146). Otherwise, pricing is generally reasonable for the quality and portion. Most of the sides and dessert were around USD9 and the romaine hearts was USD19. More menu details are available on the Miller’s Guild website .<\/p>\n

Miller’s Guild website:<\/strong>\u00a0http:\/\/millersguild.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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