Hi-Life

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The Hi-Life is a Breakfast, Bar, and Seafood restaurant where most Menuism users came for a family meal, paid between $25 and $50, and tipped between 15% to 18%.

Leave room for dessert: The kitchen transforms ordinary leftover bread into a palate-blowing pudding, flavored with caramel, espresso and cream.

Housed in a converted 1911 firehouse, the Hi-Life serves upscale comfort food. Find the front door by looking for the 20-foot neon sign atop the old elevator shaft inviting you to "Eat" and "Drink." But don’t expect kitschy firehouse décor. Although the atmosphere is upbeat and charming, it's geared towards casual and comfortable. Breakfast and brunch patrons enjoy specialties such as vanilla...

The Hi-Life is Ballard's go-to brunch spot. In a converted firehouse, the echo-y space has the familiar feeling of a TGI Friday's, which makes it a safe bet for families, but it also has personality enough to appeal to anyone needing some French toast. From morning until night, the Hi-Life has something to satisfy—you can get small plates, full entrées, wood-fired pizzas, breakfast until 3 pm,...

The once civil-serving Ballard firehouse is now a soul-saving sample of the high life: spicy Bloody Marys and vanilla custard-dipped Fancy French toast in the AM; ever-changing MMM! Macaroni Du Jour and Wild "Magic Mushroom" Pizza in the PM. Bar comes to life at night with locals ditching good intentions for good fun. Bar doors open wide, bringing in fresh air from the busting outside...its the...

The Scene
Surrounded by local art on the brick walls, diners gravitate to the comfy leather booths. In the summer, the enormous front doors open to let in the milder weather. Once again,...

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