Water Grill - Bellevue

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   Elie

   VIP

   Atlanta

   27 reviews

   5.0

   27 reviews

   Dined 1 day ago

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

   Superb seafood and service. Excellent downtown Bellevue location
   

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   Jim

   Seattle

   7 reviews

   4.0

   7 reviews

   Dined 1 day ago

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

   Food portion size vis-a-vis price is way out of whack. For example cioppino at $48 came with two bite size pieces of salmon, one small claim, two mussels, one piece small snow crab. I estimated food cost to be no more $6.
   

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   Robin

   VIP

   Seattle

   8 reviews

   4.0

   8 reviews

   Dined 1 day ago

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

   Ordered the Fraser to start. Was… meh. No paticularly fresh. More like a store-bought bag-o-ceasar. My cioppino seafood soup had good broth flavor but all the seafood seemed overcooked and the shrimp still had their gray feet on them. My husband ordered a Manhattan and I ordered a bottle of Pelligino. Mine bottle was brought to the table with no ice, no lime, but with a water glass. The waitress was happy to bring me a big wine glass with both when requested. Seems bringing it festive to start would be standard. When we finished out meals and didn’t order desert, she brought the check. She’d cleared the small seafood hunting knife so I had to ask for one. With cioppino, you are brought a bib and crab cracking device so she knew it was messy. I had to ask for a lemon finger bowl to clean up as my hand were fishy. Again, she was happy to help but no sense of anticipation of need. Add to it a table that rocked for a dinner that was hundreds of dollars. The management should better train the staff as I felt she wanted to do a nice job but just didn’t know how.
   

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   Jose

   Seattle

   1 review

   5.0

   1 review

   Dined 2 days ago

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

   Had a beautiful valentines dinner. Staff was very friendly.
   

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   Dmitry

   San Francisco

   2 reviews

   5.0

   2 reviews

   Dined 2 days ago

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

   We have Feb 14 dinner. Pre-fixed menu of 3 dishes and a dessert. The crab cakes were fantastic. So were salads. The steak was done perfectly as I requested (med rare). We also had wine pairing, which might be something I'd skip in retrospect. The wine was fine. It's just a tad too much of it. For two, it turned $500 including tips. Finally, it was very busy on Feb 14 so we had to wait a little. Not an issue though.
   

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6. OT

   OpenTable Diner

   Seattle

   4 reviews

   5.0

   4 reviews

   Dined 2 days ago

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

   Valentine Day dinner
   

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   Jonathan

   VIP

   Seattle

   6 reviews

   5.0

   6 reviews

   Dined 2 days ago

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

   Great Valentine's experience, bettered by the fact we got one of the best servers. They may try and pack in a few too many tables for what they can handle, but our server was perfect, food was excellent, and value was decent, not exceptional, but a great experience for the special day.
   

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   Abraham

   Seattle

   2 reviews

   5.0

   2 reviews

   Dined 2 days ago

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

   Megan did an exceptional job for the Valentine’s Day dinner! Food courses were amazing.
   

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   doug

   VIP

   Seattle

   3 reviews

   3.0

   3 reviews

   Dined 6 days ago

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

   Mediocre food...overpriced!! Will never go there again 😣
   

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    Sasha

    VIP

    Seattle

    4 reviews

    3.0

    4 reviews

    Dined on 9 February 2025

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

    We took my mother for her 78th Birthday celebration, after I had celebrated my 45th there a few weeks before and it was perfection. Sadly, her night fell very short of that. Our waiter seemed bored or distracted, with minimal eye contact and communication, inattentive to our table, its contents and our requests. What was saddest to me was that there was no “celebration” attached to our deserts, as I had received one at my dinner and saw two go by that evening. Just a bummer because I was so excited to share the restaurant with the rest of my family.
    

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