Seattle Restaurants

Ivar’s Acres of Clams

#17 of 568 things to do in Seattle

#386 of 19917 things to do in USA

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Good for: atmosphere, food, Solo Travellers, service

  • Address
    • 1001 Alaskan Way Pier 54
  • Phone
    • 206-624-6852
  • Price
    • fish & chips $8-9
  • Hours
    • lunch & dinner

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Lonely Planet review for Ivar’s Acres of Clams

Ivar Haglund was a beloved local character famous for silly promotional slogans (‘Keep clam!’), but he sure knew how to fry up fish and chips. Ivar’s is a Seattle institution that started in 1938. Forgo the dining room for the outdoor lunch counter; the chaotic ordering system involves a lot of yelling, but it seems to work, and then you can enjoy your clam strips or fish and chips outdoors on the pier.

 

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    Salty delicious benches

    shanghaisam37 recommends this,

    We had abused every rule that Seattle lived by -- burning the stay limit at the coffee shops, abusing the tourists, terrifying the shoppers. The only chance now, I felt, was the possibility that we'd gone to such excess that nobody in the position to bring the hammer down on us could possibility believe it.

    The wharf is where you go when you've
    messed up once too often in conspicuous Seattle
    - and when you're not even welcome
    in the cut-rate dim sum places. Ivar's Acres of Clams seemed like
    a fairly safe haven from our storms. No hassles, no talk. Just a place to rest
    and regroup. I wasn't even hungry. There was nothing in the atmosphere of
    the Acres of Clams to put me on my guard.
    Everyone seems glazed in the same salty montage, making it impossible to distinguish tourists from the locals, and oboes from guitars. I eat delicious fries and fish, tossing fries to the locals, one footed pigeons and seagulls. A few mysterious eaters adorn the tables and benches, but they too are a haze.
    And if you’re lucky, you might even see Ivar….there he goes now. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.

    Good for: atmosphere, food, Solo Travellers, service

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