Restaurants near Everest Park

Toen is fabulous, recommend great choices and amazing dinner!!

My wife and I returned once again to this great restaurant (views, service, cuisine). We had the fried artichokes as a starter --- that was a great start! I had the crab risotto for my entry ---- it was sooo good I'm coming back next week to have it again. I really loved the lemon flavor added to the dish. Outstanding!!!! My wife sampled my dish and said she will order it too when we come back.

We had very high hopes for the food as several restaurants have failed in that spot. It is a very busy place and your scale might say "energetic" but really its just very noisy. The wandering guitar player, the godfather movie on the screen all great. the food in general was also good we had two issues - one, the food took a very long time as I think there kitchen is borderline too small when the restaurant is full. Also, the "spicy" clams in broth was not spicy at all. My wife, who co-owns a spice store asked what the spices were supposed to be and the service person responded "spicy Salumi" - there was no salumi in the broth at all - they kept saying it was until finally they brought out 4 pieces of salumi to "add" to the broth - it was really strange. They did remove the charge for that but without us asking so they are paying attention and we are happy to have new restaurants in downtown Kirkland - we may give it another try but probably won't order the clams again - the meatball appetizer was very good - and the staff was attentive but just a bit overloaded

As usual, there were not many restaurants open close to where we live Christmas Day 2024. So I turned to my trusted app -- Open Table - which I could use to narrow down the day. Fofo de Chao sounded intriguing, so I booked one of the few openings -- 4:45PM. Around 3:30PM a 7PM time had opened up, so I cancelled the 4:45PM time AFTER I booked the 7PM time. That way, I was assured we had a time and our prior time was opened up for others. Because we had a reservation, we waited about 10 minutes to be seated. There were about 40 people in line, who we had to assume did NOT have reservations. Thank you, Open Table! We were seated close to the front window in a semi-private 2-person table, which we appreciated greatly. Our wait person Marsala could not have been more personable and professional. Because we had not eaten in the restaurant before, and because there was a special holiday presentation, Marsala explained to us how the entire process worked. Everything started with a self-service salad bar (like those that existed before Coid-19), which was pleasant. Large plates were available instead of the very small ones other venues offer. Once we were at out table, my wife and I were both given 2-inch-in-diameter paper discs. One side up indicated you were not ready for meats. Flip it, and a steady stream of carvers came to us offering different meats -- carved at the table and put on our plates. The meats were not overcooked, and overall were delicious. Our check, including an 18% (voluntary) tip on food+tax was $208. So at ages 80 and 84 on fixed incomes, we will be reserving Fogo de Chao for special occasions. But we were very happy with the whole experience. You will not leave hungry!

The food, service and enjoyment were at the highest level. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves!