Best American Restaurants in Phinney Ridge

Always an amazing meal and experience here. Very romantic and perfect way to celebrate with your loved ones

Wonderful greeting on entering, fabulous service, delicious food and impeccably prepared drinks. All around great experience. We will be back sooner than later!

We live a couple blocks away and come here at least a couple times a year, especially when friends and family visit. Great quality restaurant and the atmosphere is unmatched. A Seattle institution.

I had family here from California, and we arranged to meet at this restaurant, which I had been to once previously. I remembered that it was good, and also that it was near Seattle Center, and I had a hunch these two would want to poke around over there once our meal was done, so it was a perfect location. The service was warm and friendly, but never intrusive, and the food was divine. I ordered the "sweet stuff" French toast with caramel and strawberries; nobody else makes it like this, and it was mouthwatering! I also ordered (to go) some "soft scramble" eggs with asparagus and Dungeness crab. It's so hard to get real, fresh crab anymore, what with the overfishing, but my eggs had actual leg segments of crab in them, a perfect ratio of filling to egg. The eggs came with their amazing potatoes, and my husband and I had that dish, along with a small amount of leftovers from my French Toast, for dinner that night. This may be my favorite Seattle restaurant right now! The cherry on the sundae, so to speak, was that when we were finished, we sat and chatted and nobody seemed anxious to kick us out of our booth. Oh hell yes.

Autumn is not struggling to bring in customers. Every seat was full, as was the bar, and there was a private party in the back room. There was a lot of energy and an overall good vibe. It felt at times that they were running at least one staff member short. There were frequent pile-ups at the check in desk because the host was also functioning as a server. This wouldn't be so bad if there was anywhere to wait, but there isn't (unless you want to wait outside). The food was good - we liked the Brussels sprouts and polenta fries appetizers. The steak that came to the table was under the requested medium. My wife's pasta arrived several minutes after the other entrees and was a little more al dente than she's accustomed to. We didn't send either back since we didn't know how long it would take for them to come back out. We'll still come back to Autumn, but this wasn't their best outing.