The Shambles

Great MEAT ! Awesome food.Excellent staff and great service. Craft cocktails, relaxing beautiful neighborhood setting.Love this place.

Me again leaving another review. Only because we went there for my husband's birthday and again the food was phenomenal. I feel like we had one of everything and each bite was delicious but I have to recommend the happy hour which has a fantastic selection of foods including a pretty awesome burger.For appetizers, we ordered the bread, olives, steak, tartare, truffle fries, Caesar salads - they were all perfect. For our entrées, we ordered steaks which were cooked to perfection the mushrooms, the potatoes, and the baby broccoli. I recommend it all - we actually brought leftovers home and my husband and I fought over who was going to get to eat them. Seriously we can't wait to go back and if you're there two of our favorite servers are. Leza and Drew!!

Nice meat. Lovely drinks. Knowledge, kind staff. Very much a neighborhood feel, yet elevated. Happy to have found it without having to venture to Ballard or Downtown.

This is a carnivore's dream come true. There is a happy hour, a full menu, and drink menu, but the best part is the chalkboard with the different cuts of steaks available by ounce. I love having the option to select a steak exactly the way I want, and also being able to choose a couple cuts and sizes if wanting to share. They come with demi-glacé, and a compound butter on top. I don't think it needs anything else but for my friends who require sides, they got the crushed potatoes and really enjoyed them.I don't drink anymore but admired the bar selection, thinking of a few of my friends who are fond of bourbon. I noticed the bottle of chartreuse and if I had ordered a cocktail I would have gotten a last word. Thankfully they have a pretty good hot tea selection and I was able to get an Earl grey with cream. Everyone was friendly and helpful. This is a great spot to casually grab a meal or hit up on a date. Seriously, if anyone asks me where I want to eat and I'm in the area, I'm going to suggest we go to the meat temple. :D

Great neighborhood steakhouse and more. The Shambles occupies an interesting space off of LCW, and includes a nice bar area and dining room. In the past, they also did retail, but not at the moment. They have a small happy hour menu, and the standout item was the steak tartare which they prepare on order and was incredibly flavorful and tender. We also tried a couple of cuts, and the the wagyu bavette was our fave - incredibly flavorful and tender - perfectly cut and cooked, although the filet was also very good (melts in your mouth). The steaks come solo so any sides are extra, and the chanterelles mushrooms were perfect with the steak. Desserts were ok, but the wine and cocktail list were a nice surprise - interesting selection of wines from famous regions but perhaps not with the biggest names and at a reasonable price. Overall, the Shambles is a great experience where food and great service are the focus in a laid back space.

Great neighborhood find! They have a meat board to tell you which steaks are available and when they're gone they're gone, like bateau but less pretentious. Everything we had here was top notch and it wasn't crowded. Out favorites were the bavette steak, crispy potatoes, and bread pudding.

Great quiet spot, food and drinks are always on point. Servers and bartenders are always friendly. Highly recommend!

Not much has changed about the dining room, but things are different enough these days that it's worth re-reviewing, if only to confirm the goodness that lives on.Lockdown was tough on these folks, and they scaled back their menu and seem to have ended their butcher-case activity, at least some of the time. It's a dine-in steakhouse these days.Three of us came in last night to have dinner ourselves and take dinner to two other folks. We had a reservation, and they were kind enough to seat us at a big table to keep us off the high stools (one of us has a bad back). The bar program seems to be what it has always been, with maybe slightly less-geeky and more-approachable kegs pouring. Ales, lagers, and sours, plenty of stuff to please hopheads and lovers of tart, malty, or fruity things. Ciders, wines, and cocktails. Everything on offer here has real thought behind it, and they pick good stuff. Everybody can find a good drink here. The menu SEEMS short. It's a few appetizers, literally just a couple sides, and then you crane your neck to look at the chalkboard to see what steaks are on. They have a cheat sheet with all the steak vocabulary you could want. This one's fattier, this one's leaner, this one is on the bone, this one might look like a funny shape, and so on. They break down the entire animal here and serve every possible cut of steak. They make magic with the trimmings, too.Last night there were about 20 varieties of steak on the board. I'm not kidding. It's not cheap, for the most part, but you're getting well-raised, well-fed, carefully-aged steaks. We had a boneless Delmonico (very expensive, dry-aged, velvety and fatty and delicious) an under blade (never heard of it, very reasonable, great texture and flavor), and a flank (mid-priced, about half a flank, dry-aged, wonderful texture and flavor). All steaks came out with compound butter and chives. They don't overseason the steaks or bury them when they're on the place--salt, pepper, butter, herbs. The flavors that add to almost any savory dish add great notes here, but almost everything you taste is wonderful steak. We had the steak tartare appetizer (awesome thick crostini, fresh raw egg yolk holding on as long as possible atop the meat, some mustard and garnish). This was fantastic and gone almost right away. The duck liver mousse was smooth, lightly sweet, of course very earthy, and came out with all the same accompaniments as the tartare, plus 2 dried fruits. It was gone as fast as we could eat it.The brussels sprouts with the steaks had great flavor, though I could have gone for cooking them a bit less. The caesar salads, though, holy cow--those were amazing. Huge real caesar flavors, great croutons and fresh lettuce. I never get tired of a salad like this with a steak like this. We had a couple cocktails, a glass of wine, a glass of beer, and then two more dinner orders (sandwiches and sides), plus tax and tip and barely topped $400 for 5 people total. Very reasonable, especially since we splurged on one of the fanciest steaks on the board. They've gone through some personnel changes in the ownership group and on the floor lately. Service was as fast and thoughtful as ever. Other than the fact that a couple of the new kids were sporting denim vests like some sort of steakhouse MC, you wouldn't even notice anything had changed. It's so, so good to see a wonderful favorite place survive lockdown and soldier on into the future. Fingers crossed their link sausages and other stuff show up in the butcher case again soon.

If you want awesome steak, great ambiance & service - this is your place to go. Not a big fancy steak house - much better :).Go early though because the meat that is available is on the chalkboard and once its gone, it is gone for the evening. Ask for advice - they can recommend the meet choices to your preferences and sharing is a good idea.Sides are really good too!

I was sort of thrown off by the festival and communal seating. But I ended up sitting across from the meat board, so the universe healed. It was a meat fest, simple and easy. We nestled all in and did the carnivore thing. It's not fancy but it was a pretty good time.