It was a great day in Seattle today! I started off my afternoon by going up to Jack's Cellar at the south end of Lake City way to meld two of my favorite activities (photography & wine tasting) together. My long time friend, Seattle Photographer Steve Schneider was having the reception for his show "The First Three Songs". It's a selection of some of his shots from 25 years of shooting Rock & Roll concerts, including some great classic Grateful Dead images. The show runs thru the end of September so if your in the Seattle area you should definitely stop by and check it out!
And the Barberas wines were pretty good too!
After the tasting I met up with my long time friends Shirley & Dan and we went to check out a very new and much anticipated addition to the "Ballard Dining Scene". It's called Delancey. In fact it's so new it didn't even have a name anywhere on the building ("it's a work in progress")...
As to the ambiance, I'd just say simple and clean. With nice details like the salt/pepper flake bowls on the tables. 
We ordered a couple more "adult hop based beverages" along with a "Billy's Tomatos" Salad that we split between the 3 of us and everyone really enjoyed. Then for the main event the "New York Style" wood fired oven baked pizzas!!! We split 2 pizzas between us, a strait up pepperoni and for number 2 the "Padron" with roasted padron peppers. Simple review, both pizzas WERE EXCELLENT!And for desert, well we tried two options off the menu. Shirley chose the fresh fruit popsicle in a tall shot glass, I of course went with the Chocolate Chip Cookie with gray salt. Let me just say that while there was some pizza taken with us and enjoyed later... I don't believe there was any evidence that we even ordered desert!! I'll definitely return as often as I can! Thanks Molly & Brandon and your excellent staff for an excellent experience. Cheers, S
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