About
Bateau, french for “boat,” is both a nod to our first restaurant, Boat Street Café, as well as an attempt to reimagine the American steak house around quality, sustainability and animal welfare.
Heritage cattle breeds, renowned for their flavor, selected and owned by Bateau, and cared for by Pure Country, a Food Alliance certified ranch in Moses Lake, Washington, are the centerpiece of Bateau’s whole animal menu. All of our cows are conscientiously raised, grass fed and, just as importantly, grass finished. Bateau’s beef is dry aged for a minimum of 21-days and butchered in house by Bateau butcher, Scott Johnson. This is certainly not the fastest, easiest, or most economical way to serve beef, but we believe it is the best way.
Specialty cuts are sold by weight and availability alongside Chef Taylor Thornhill’s inventive dishes, oft replete with foraged and fermented ingredients. Steak house classics, done the right way, such as twice fried frites, buttery mashed potatoes, iconic cocktails, and an extensive bottle list round out the offerings. Service is friendly yet refined.
The dining room pays its respects to Boat Street Café through the repurposing of many of Boat Street’s fixtures and furniture pieces. Guests may recognize the now decades old, rough, slate tables as well as artist Curtis Steiner’s ‘Jeffry’ chalk drawing.
“At Bateau, we endeavor to express what’s happening in our corner of the world and to gesture to our beginnings at Boat Street Café, while also creating something new and exciting.” -Chef Owner, Renee Erickson
Collaborators
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Project Designer
Price Erickson
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Project Builder
Method Construction
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Project Architect
Heliotrope Architects
- Design + Development: Transom
2023 RECIPIENTS:
Academy for Creating Excellence |
African Community Housing and Development |
Alliance for Education |
Alliance Française de Seattle |
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention |
American Heart Association |
American Parkinson Disease Association |
Ballard High School |
Ballard High School Class of 1973 |
Banchero Disability Partners |
Bellevue High School PTSA |
Binyatara Foundation |
City Fruit |
Clothes for Kids |
Cocoon House |
Dignity Divas |
Dine Out for Life |
Dog Gone Seattle |
Don't Drag Me Down, Benefit for Trans & Queer Rights |
Down Syndrome Center of Puget Sound |
El Centro de la Raza |
Encompass Child Development Center |
FamilyWorks |
Farestart |
Feral Cat Spay / Neuter Project |
Food Rescue US |
Fred Hutch Child Care |
Fremont Arts Council |
French Immersion School of Washington |
Fuse Innovation Fund |
Gatewood Elementary School |
Gift of Adoption |
Girls on the Run |
Gobble Up Seattle + Portland |
Green Lake Elementary |
Guatemala Village Health |
Home Together |
Hope for Life |
Hopelink |
Junior Acheivement of Washingtom |
Kandelia Immigrants and Refugees |
Kathleen Sutton Fund |
Kidspace Childcare Center |
King County Sexual Assualt Resource Center |
Lakeview Elementary |
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (FHCC) |
Light Collective |
Lincoln Highschool PTSA |
Long Live the Kings |
Loyal Heights Elementary |
Madison Middle School |
Magnolia Co-Op Preschool |
Make-A-Wish Foundation via UW |
Medic One Foundation |
MEOW Cat Rescue |
Miracle House Guild |
Montlake Elementary |
Music Center of the Northwest |
North Corner Chamber Orchestra |
North Seattle French School |
Northwest Abortion Access Fund |
Northwest Film Forum |
Operation Sky Valley |
Plus One Foundation |
Plymoth Housing |
Pro Choice Washington |
Provail |
Providence Home and Community Care |
Puget Soundkeeper Alliance |
Rain City Rock Camp |
Ronald McDonald House of Washington |
Roosevelt HS Theatre Program |
Sand Point Elementary School |
Saving Great Animals |
Seattle Animal Shelter Foundation |
Seattle Area Feline Rescue |
Seattle Children's Hospital (Kathy Goertzen Guild) |
Seattle Choral Company |
Seattle Country Day School |
Seattle Fisherman's Memorial |
Seattle Moisture Festival |
Seattle Theatre Group |
Seattle University PILF |
Sexual Violence Law Center |
Sharing Excess |
Shunpike |
Sister Schools |
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Special Olympics of Washington |
St. Stephen Housing Association |
Temple Beth Am Early Childhood School |
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Town Hall Seattle |
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University Child Development School |
Urban Artworks |
UW Combined Fund |
UW Evans School Student Organization |
Vietnam Health Clinic |
Wenatchee Valley Humane Society |
West Woodland Elementary |
World Central Kitchen Maui Fires Fundraiser |
Youth In Focus |
YWCA Pierce County |
Seattle University |
Seattle Infant Development Center |