Restaurants in Bainbridge Island

Del Rey's chef, Derek Knudsen, infuses classic bar dishes with a gourmand's flair, offering a menu of wash-downable delights, fried yum, and Southwestern staples. After tasting the blackened ahi tuna ($13.95), truffle mac 'n’ cheese ($7.95), and churros with chocolate-Kahlua sauce ($5.95), tone-deaf taste buds find themselves serenading incisors with John Fogerty lyrics. Early feasters can enjoy Saturday- and Sunday-brunch favorites such as the vegetarian breakfast burrito ($7.95) or Kahlua French toast ($6.95), washed down with one of Del Rey's specialty Bloody Marys ($7.50–$8). Bathed in glowing red light, diners settle into intimate booths with selections from Del Rey's stocked bar. More than 100 tequilas spicy up margaritas, including the jalapeño-cucumber ($8) and the triple berry ($7.50), while the Dark N Stormy quenches the thirsts of sadistic weathermen with house-made ginger beer and dark rum ($7.50).

Longtime Ballard residents Andy and Tammy James opened the doors of Market Street Traders just two years ago with a mission of promoting the Fair Trade movement. The Jameses strive for their establishment to act as a good neighbor in the community and a good citizen in the world by finding and selling fairly traded products, supporting sustainable environmental practices, and providing a venue for cultural community events.

Dine on authentic, fresh Italian cuisine without leaving the country with today’s Groupon. For $30, you’ll get $60 worth of delicious Italian fare at La Dolce Vita Ristorante Italiano, located at 234 1st Ave. W in lower Queen Anne.

Paragon spontaneously manifests fusion cuisine in the form of steaks, seafood, and salad dishes while live music appeases ear buds throughout the week. A bounty of small plates, such as an order of crispy calamari served with Anaheim chili rings, green-chili aioli, and garlic-chili sauce ($9), infuses an evening with a level of spice paralleled only by rap-battling a seventh-grader. Dine on delectable entrees such as the grilled Creekstone Farms black angus marinated skirt steak served alongside roasted garlic mashed potatoes, greens, and chimichurri sauce ($22) or the southern fried chicken salad: romaine lettuce tossed with buttermilk-marinated pieces of fried chicken, tomatoes, avocado, blue cheese crumbles, candied pecans and homemade ranch dressing ($15). Saddle up to the 30-foot bar and sip from a glass ($6+) or bottle ($22+) of wine or imbibe from one of 15 taps flowing with only the coldest, most emotionally distant of beers.

Birthing alligators or running from washing machines in your dreams all night can leave you famished come morning. Today’s Groupon will revive you after a rigorous round of REM with $10 worth of morning treats from Homegrown for $5.The Nightmare: Hamburger is eating you. What It Means: You never got over your first girlfriend, Ashley.

Cover your stomach with a warm, electric blanket of food. Today's Groupon gets you $40 worth of comfort food at Shadowland, a low-lit, intimate setting for a relaxing, nourishing, and potentially low-lit, intimate evening. The Restaurant: Helpful waitstaff The Land of Shadows: Usurper king Zand the Pestilent wields Trandmor’s Staff to plunge once peaceful kingdom into darkness