DERU market is a local neighborhood #eatery owned and run by a cute-looking couple: Chef Jamie Casady and Chef Jordan Cooper. Located just outside of Seattle, you can find this place tucked away in the midst of nearby automotive and repair shops and at first glance, doesn’t look like much. But never judge a book by its cover! Once you step foot inside, you enter a transformed atmosphere that is IG-worthy; cutely decorated with fresh plants and flowers.
But this cute cafe is more than just a restaurant that serves food. This couple loves to cook and especially loves to cook for people. Every dish they make here is made from home-grown vegetables from their farm/garden. Everything is locally grown by them. Now that is something special! Not only is it good food, but food made with love and care.
To start off, we all got a glass of orange mimosas WITH PULP!!!! Whaaaat?! I’ve never had mimosas with pulp before and now to think of if, why don’t people have an option for pulp?! I LOVE pulp!! This makes my mimosa taste 10x better.
This is our daily soup that day: tomato basil soup. Perfectly thick with tomato pulp, perfectly creamy, deliciously fresh.
Some roasted baby carrots with sauce verde to start off! Naturally grown in the backyard garden and freshly picked.
Potatoes with herbs was actually one of my favorite eats from this place, believe it or not. As simple of a dish it is, and only a side dish for that matter, these potatoes were seasoned incredibly well and roasted so perfectly. We ordered another one after too! No one can get enough of this haha.
The DERU Cobb salad is intensely packed with harvest greens, radicchio, cured tuna, smoked fingerlings, heirloom tomatoes, beet cured egg, green beans, house bacon, fennel buttermilk dressing, herbs. I just personally wish it was in a bigger bowl for the easiness of mixing everything. Or even finding everything in that jam-packed bowl. But the salad was good! And of course, everything smelled and tasted so fresh.
Roasted broccoli and kale with onion, lemon and herbs. Okay, okay this is the last vegetable dish I promise..
Apple and arugula wood fired pizza with brie, mozzarella, Parmesan and lemon was one of the most refreshing pizzas I have ever eaten!!! Wait refreshing? How can pizza be refreshing!!! Isn’t it normally oily and heavy? Not this one!! The thinly sliced apples and regula made it so light and easy to eat. The cheeses were a deluxe to enjoy.
Roasted mushroom wood fired pizza with extra virgin olive oil, kale, mozzarella, Gouda, chilies and Parmesan. More savory and salty but felt extremely healthy to eat thanks to the kale.
Fig and pistachio meatloaf with fig balsamic and arugula. I can’t see anything under that massive arugula? Damn it arugula, you always cover the beauty!
And that is why I made a cross-section for ya!!! Delicious and meaty-feeling meatloaf it is!!!!
What a surprising nice find in Seattle right??? Or actually, the city is Kirkland. Don’t need to stay only in the big city to try good food. Especially when it comes to the locally farmed and locally growned.
Ta-ta for now! 🙂
