Rays Boathouse, Cafe & Catering

A Seattle icon since 1973, Rays Boathouse changed the way the Northwest eats seafood. Rays helped create a fashionable and distinctive regional cuisine built around sustainable Northwest seafood, local produce, microbrews and wines. Rays was the first to reintroduce Olympia oysters, the regions only native oyster, and heralded Northwest delicacies such as singing scallops, Loughbrough Inlet spot prawns, Copper River Salmon, Bruce Gore frozen at sea salmon and the concept of red wine with fish. Rays was also the first local restaurant to purchase its own wholesale fish buyers license, allowing it to buy directly from the fishermen, ensuring the freshest catch. Today, Rays is a must-visit restaurant with an international reputation for excellent Northwest seafood and a majestic waterfront view of Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains. Rays Boathouse is comfortably elegant, serving refined sustainable seafood, local meats and produce, and an extensive wine list nightly. Rays Cafe is ...