Ballard for Lunch

 

7/7/25 "Lunch Set A" at AA Sushi, Ballard

A few months ago when I discovered AA Sushi, I vowed to get back there whenever I was in Ballard again. An appointment brought me there on Monday, and I timed it so that I could have lunch at AA afterwards. In Seattle, it’s easy to get great sushi if you’re willing to pay the high price it usually commands. I continue to be impressed by AA’s excellent food compounded by the restaurant’s fantastic value.

Before and after lunch, I made a few more sketches on Market Street – a cool neon sign shaped like a saxophone (tiny in my sketch); a ubiquitous Lime bike; the EAT sign above Fuego Restaurant; and a couple of locals on their lunch break at Bergen Place. I made a note to come back another time to make a more complete sketch of Fuego’s brick building, which once housed Fire Station No. 18 (now on the national historic register).

Ballard neighborhood