Westward

Westward is a water-inspired full service restaurant and bar located on North Lake Union.

Westward’s setting emphasizes its Lake Union location in multiple ways: the Wes Anderson-inspired boat-shaped bar; a dining room perched on a pier doing double-duty as a patio; Adirondack chairs circling a fire pit on the beach. The lake wind blows fresh breezes into the light-colored dining room, a place that's pleasant in summer and cozy in the winter when the wood stove in the open kitchen...

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Bon Appetit dropped its annual list of the best new restaurants of 2014 today, and Josh Henderson's Westward comes in at #5 out of the ten best dining picks in America as chosen by restaurant editor Andrew Knowlton: "A stunning waterfront setting, snappy nautical design, and dozens of oysters—there is no better all-day restaurant hang than Seattle's Westward."

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Josh Henderson is thinking ahead. He's one amazing year into Westward: The Life Aquatic-esque space snagged a James Beard nomination for Outstanding Restaurant Design this year, and with its view of Seattle across Lake Union and Northwest menu, Westward has already managed to claim quintessential Seattle restaurant status.

Henderson stepped away from daily operations at Skillet about two years...

Westward is a water-inspired full service restaurant and bar located on North Lake Union.