There’s a new place to eat and drink in downtown Ballard. 5 Corner Market officially opens on Monday in a prominent spot.
5 Corner Market Restaurant and Bar is located in the former Lombardi’s location at the corner of 22nd Ave NW and NW Market Street. Hours are 11:30 a.m. to midnight on Monday through Wednesday, open until 2 a.m. on Thursday through Saturday. On Sunday, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Chef Sam Crannell, formerly of Quinn’s and Oddfellows, is at the head of the kitchen in the new “gastropub,” which we’re told includes local, seasonal ingredients; full bar with hand-crafted cocktails. The menu will be half starters, half entrees, some cooked in the Wood Stone Josper Oven
smoked chicken thighs, market bbq, corn bread salad, $10
The menu will change monthly. Click through to see a sample of the December 2010 menu.
Small Plates
pork rillet, pickles, toast 5
beef fat chips & aerated onion 5
artisan cheese selection, mostarda, brioche crackers 14
smoked chicken thighs, market bbq, corn bread salad 10
beef belly, root vegetables, marrow dumplings, consommé 12
wood roasted mussels, harissa, butter 8
pork sausage, kneffla, braised cabbage, sugo 11
sweet potato ravioli, chestnut, sage 12
ricotta cavitelli, rapini, romesco 7
“pastrami” seared foie gras, sour cherry sauerkraut salad, rye croutons 16
butter leaf, oregon blue, apple, granola, sherry vinaigrette 9
grilled romaine, caesar, parmesan croutons, fried anchovies 9
frisee, 5-10 farm egg, rillions, maple vinaigrette, sourdough croutons 12
Large Plates
pulled bbq whole hog, beef fat fries, mustard slaw, pretzel bun 14
wood roasted garlic chicken, roasted potatoes, vanilla bean jus 19
wood roasted ny strip, creamed brussles, potato croquettes 27
blackened lamb sirloin, charred broccoli, pine nut marmalade 21
fried rock fish, gribiche, malt, sea salt, beef fat fries 12
pork chop, pumpkin puree, kale, aleppo pepper apple caramel 19
braised short rib, mushroom ragu, spinach, truffle, pappardelle 19
1/2lb burger, beef fat fries, wookey hole cheddar, blt, pretzel bun 14
I checked them out yesterday. Great beer list, though the prices on the Belgians are kind of horrifying. Steenbrugge tripel = win! $9 = fail.
Lovely cheese plate.
Too bad they are serving foie gras, which is produced by the mistreatment of geese, and so many other animal products. Looks totally unhealthy. I’ll miss the garlic smell on the corner.
Your twitter account is “healthnik”. I think I’ll let that stand on its own.
I’m no fan of foie gras, myself, but I managed to get through a pleasant hour there without anyone trying to force me to eat it. Which is more, I suppose, than the ducks can say.
Whoa a curve ball…. instead of just having people complain about cost, someone is complaining about animal products!!!
Mmm, animal products. Yummy. How can you live without butter and steak?
You seriously miss that horrible smell on the corner. I practically moved to a different part of the neighborhood because I hated walking past there every day.
When people say the main reason they eat animal products is because they are yummy… I know they haven’t thought the whole thing through.
I must say ah’ll be down to check the ol’ place out. You know, check and make sure it’s safe for vegetarians. Foie gras is vegetarian, right?
Yeah we have. I mostly eat vegetarian but every now and then I enjoy a good steak, roast chicken or even boudin noir. I avoid meat from the huge, disease ridden meat factories but am not willing to go the full vegetarian route (though I was for a few years). I’ve also done my share of hunting in the past so I have seen the nasty side of where meat comes from up close and know that the natural state for chicken isn’t a plastic wrapped styrofoam tray.
Some of us have thought it through and are still cool with it.
How can you say this “looks totally unhealthy?!?” Are you privy to Mr. Crannell’s preparation tactics or food sources? Unless you are, shame on you, Barb, for going to such lengths to demean a local business!
This blog is hilarious, Welcome to the hood 5 corners and good luck.
Wooo hoo, animal rights loons! How is life denied of pleasure?
Love me some foie gras! Burrrrp! Always great washed down with a Sauterne if your stomach can handle all the love put into making some wonderful foods like these.
That smell on the corner was the smell of cardboard with ketchup and garlic slathered on it and sold to people who wouldn’t know the difference.
There are some things you’re not supposed to ‘think through’, you’re supposed to simply enjoy. Food and sex are #1 and #2 on that list. Me thinks the food deniers also have sex issues.
I suggest folks go to youtube and search ‘anthony bourdain foie gras’ to learn more about the animal rights extremists fight against culture and pleasure.
a bad diet under the guise of some sort of weird idea of locovorism. like that somehow makes it better for you or the world or an animal. did you see the chef? the guy is fat. not to be trusted.
Unhealthy? French living in the Gascony region in southwest France, the heart of foie gras region, have far lower rates of cardiovascular disease than the entire US.
What the heck is a “rillet”? I’ll assume that you meant “rillettes”, but it’s possible that’s not what you meant at all.
ha. this ain’t france. good luck.
Barb Levy is just another example of American puritanism run amok, ramming her neurotic, anti-pleasure views onto the rest of us. You don’t see meat eaters posting on this blog about vegetarian restaurants, criticizing their choices, claiming moral superiority?
Beth Levy is the ‘Jerry Falwell’ of food. Laugh at her puritanism, ignore her and go enjoy the pleasures of foie gras.
You know who else is mistreated? Meat eaters, by vegetarians.
The smell from the Ballard gym in back of there is far worse than what egresses from the kitchen. Also lulzy, the amount of people who come out of the gym and SMOKE in that corridor.
O wait, its because that’s a gym for cruising and not for exercising. It’s like the Golds Gym in the Castro, if you can dig it.
The smell from the Ballard gym in back of there is far worse than what egresses from the kitchen. Also lulzy, the amount of people who come out of the gym and SMOKE in that corridor.
O wait, its because that’s a gym for cruising and not for exercising. It’s like the Golds Gym in the Castro, if you can dig it.
was in there yesterday just for a quick beer to check it out…
the smoke smell from that smoker was very strong in the restaurant. not sure the wood that was being used, but the smell was synthetic.
i hope that was a one time thing b/c it was pungent and very powerful
Did you look at the menu?
I went here for the soft opening weekend and butt-hurt vegetarians aside, the food was definitely as good as Quinn’s if not the same. Service was friendly. And the beer selection was awesome. $5 for a fantastic IPA and the trippel was awesome, but beware of the $9 price, although that’s not unreasonable.
Barb, I totally agree with you on the foie gras. I am sorry to see that so many other commenters are being abusive towards you. I don’t think it is “moral superiority” to point out that something that some people choose to consume is the product of extreme torture. It’s a fact and poeple who choose to consume the product should also have to face that fact.
My wife goes to that gym.
*blinks*
Oh, no! My wife goes to that gym!!!
Seriously, though, BBB — it’s hugely cheaper than Olympic and has decent classes. I’m sure there’s a cruising contingent, but it’s pretty decent as an actual gym, too.
It’s not torture, that’s the big lie. Go to youtube and search for ‘anthony bourdain foie gras’ and you’ll learn that properly made foie gras (which is more expensive but tastes amazing) is made humanely and doesn’t harm the birds in anyway. In fact, the birds are less stressed than wild geese. A stressed animal doesn’t produce decent meat, this is the problem with industrial farming.
But keep up the big lie. It’s what American Puritans are good at.
Anthony Bourdain on the Big Lie from The Puritans that artisan foie gras is ‘torture’:
tinyurl.com/34vsch
And sorry, you come here and tell us our choices in life are ‘immoral’, well you deserve ‘abuse’, like any other of kind of Puritan trying to force their narrow, sad, anti-pleasure view of the world on the rest of us.
Now I’m ready to enjoy some yummy goose liver!
Funny how when I visited a farm where foie gras is produced (near Sarlat) the geese bum rushed the farmer when he came out to feed them. As others have said here: Properly produced foie gras is not torture. Every farm I’ve visited in France I found that the farmers had a deep love for their animals. Can’t say that about some of the farms here in the US. Also, nearly universally, when I purchased meat of any sort in France they would give me the farmer’s phone number if I asked for it. If I then called them they would invite me out to their farm.
Unfortunately for the moral fundamentalists like Barb, esr and other extremist Puritans, they make no distinction between artisan foie gras and the cheap industrial stuff made for the masses. It’s all ‘evil’ in their book so really, what’s the point of engaging them? They are the Phelps family of eating behavior.
Hapster. Do you have some insight into the foie gras from this establishment? Met the chef? Met the producer? Verified that the foie gras from this place is “artisan foie gras” and that it is not “industrial stuff made for the masses?” Or are you just making a bunch of generalizations?
Why would it matter to extremist fundamentalists like you where the foie gras comes from? Wouldn’t any type of foie gras be unacceptable to the puritan’s mind?
FYI I’d know if it was the cheap stuff just by tasting it and would send it back and ask for the good stuff. But then again, I’m a foie gras snob…..
And Hapster’s response is…. another unsupported broad generalization. Got a real answer to my questions? Is it an answer that in any way supports your statements? Let me help you with your logical reasoning. You see, before you can say something is not cruel, you need to know at least a little bit about how it is produced. In this case, it seems like you can’t do this. Thus, everything you say on this subject is unsupported and unworthy of consideration.
“another unsupported broad generalization. ”
Really? So the anti-foie gras folks have no problem with high quality foie gras? Was I generalizing? I’m sorry, I didn’t realize they were so open minded. My apologies. By the way, I’ll be enjoying some fine foie gras Christmas Day with a sauterne if you’d like to come over and enjoy.I’m sorry I generalized and didn’t realize you had no problem with the good stuff made like in this video attached below.
And it isn’t crule: watch this video: tinyurl.com/34vsch
We are back where we started. Your response indicates that you have not been to this restaurant and do not know how the foie gras for this specific restuarant is produced. That being the case, most of your above rantings are just unsupported generalizations with no solid basis in fact. The foie gras from this location might actually be “cheap industrial stuff” from stressed animals living with some degree of cruelty. Or, it might be really delicious, from humanely raised animals. We just don’t know.
“you need to know at least a little bit about how it is produced”
You didn’t watch the film did you?
tinyurl.com/34vsch
By the way, I’ve visited this very same farm in France. Have you ever been to a foie gras farm?
“you need to know at least a little bit about how it is produced”
Can you tell which which foie gras farms you’ve been to then? I’ve been to at least four, but it sounds like you’ve been to many more. I’d love to know which ones….
We don’t know but do you think the animal rights extremists like Barb etc. care? I wasn’t the one making an unfounded accusation of immorality against the restaurant.
I’ll go, ask them where it’s from, try it and if it’s no good, I won’t order it again.
Isn’t freedom wonderful!
“Or, it might be really delicious, from humanely raised animals”
If it is, will you try some with me?
Will the NARN numbskulls start protesting then out front like pro-life loons?
You’re right, it ain’t France, there are too many Puritans who are uptight about sex and food and want to shove their neurotic beliefs down our throats in America.
Luckily, like the French, we have freedom in America so we can enjoy our foie gras and sauterne anyday.
Happster. Good for you for being concerned enough about what you eat and how it is produced to visit some farms. Most people never will because they simply do not want/cannot face the way the food they consume is produced. The three unsupported generalizations I see are as follows: 1. I am anti foie gras in all cases. I am not, if it can be raised humanely. From comments above, it sounds like it may be possible. 2. Everyone posting here against foie gras is a moral fundamentalist. I don’t believe that being concerned about food and the ethics/consequences related to food automatically makes one a a moral fundamentalist. 3. This is the BIG one, that the foie gras at the restaurant related to this story is humane. In reality, we don’t know. It may well be but we don’t know.
Nope, haven’t visited a foie gras farm since I have never really had a desire to eat it and don’t know of any farms in the areas I have been. If I was in France and was near the farm you have mentioned above, chances are I would visit and may well try some of this stuff. If nothing else, it would be fun to see the process and try the stuff that gets people so riled up.
Turns out, Cheff Crannel gets his foie gras from Hudson Valley Foie Gras featured in the Anthony Bourdain video:
tinyurl.com/34vsch
So enjoy!
Please take the discussion about vegetarianism and foie gras to the forum along with discussion of whether you liked Lombardi or whether Ballard Health Club is a good gym. If you don’t like the menu because of certain dishes or the lack of certain dishes I suppose that is not wholly off topic but the repeated belaboring of certain points and using inflammatory language certainly violates posting etiquette.
I went on Friday night and very much enjoyed our meal and the atmosphere. There were a few minor bumps but of course that has to be expected with any new restaurant opening. The food may prove to be the equal of Quinn’s but again there were a few rough spots (for example the mussels portion was ok but had several closed mussels and there was not enough broth to keep the mussels hot so the dish cooled down rapidly). The atmosphere also falls short of the charm of Quinn’s (or Lecosho) and there was not a set cocktail list yet.
Looking forward to going back in the near future to see what adjustments have been made.
Freedom is wonderful. I am willing to give foie gras a shot if it is humanely/responsibly raised. Especially since it can be accompanied with a good IPA.
Sounds like I better start by watching the video.
Wow… All of you aging liberal hippie douches are extremely annoying talking about foie gras… WHO CARES? HONESTLY?
I had lunch there today, was OK but no place that I am dying to go back too. Fries were cold, sandwich was so-so, and it took a long time to get the food. The soup was fantastic. Hopefully they’ll get things ironed out soon and turn it around.
The dessert wine in question is called “Sauternes.”
Dumbass.
Actually the adage is ‘never trust a skinny cook.’
I love meat, eat it almost every day, but somehow the phrase “Beef fat fries” is a big turn off.
Not impressed at all, unless you choose to get just the burger. Entree, appetizer, and salad portions all amazingly small for the price and no vegetables included. Given the options located right around there, I would always choose to go somewhere else. Already miss Lombardi’s!
Not impressed at all! With the exception of the burger platter, very small portions on appetizer, salads, and entrees — and no vegetables with the main course . With so may great options around that location, will not return. Already miss Lombardi’s!
Not impressed at all! Unless you got the burger platter (main course), the portions of the appetizers, salads, entrees are all very small. We left feeling hungry with no leftovers. With all of the many great options around that location, we won’t return. Already miss Lombardi’s!
I enjoyed a very tasty burger and fries at 5 Corner. But I will probably not go back was because I did not like the overpowering chemical/smokey/lighter fluid-like smell of this place. Too bad. It would have been nice to have another fun hangout in Ballard.