We awoke to rain and it lasted most of the day. So we had a very quiet, mostly stay-at-home day watching football. No Patriots game on here. Mostly we watched the Saints beat the Seahawks in Seattle. That makes the local folk unhappy as Depoe Bay is in Seahawk country. The chairs on our deck are Seahawk chairs.
To those who asked about the chairs in a previous post’s picture, here is the story behind the chairs. Several years ago I had a chair (very much like the ones we have now) shipped here from Amazon. I had hoped that the chair would be here the next time we came. On our next trip we were in Costco after landing at Portland airport and I saw the Seahawk chair and bought just in case the one from last year was gone. When we got to the condo, it was indeed gone. Come the next year we again flew into Portland and were at Costco again and they still had the Seahawk chairs. So I bought another one thinking the one from the last year would be gone. It wasn’t, so now we had a matched set. This year we were driving, so we put the (non-Seahawk) chairs we have in Scottsdale in the car. But the Seahawk chairs are still here, so the ones from home remain in the car. So, there’s WAY more information than you need about the chairs on our balcony.
We drove into Lincoln City to pick up items we forgot yesterday at Safeway. And we stopped at the Lincoln City Outlet Mall because Elaine wanted to get a turtle neck. We tried six stores (E Bauer, the Gap, Columbia, Old Navy, North Face, and Under Armour) – no turtlenecks. I did pop into the Kitchen Outlet to buy a corkscrew to replace the broken one at the condo.
The skies magically (but not unexpectedly) cleared at exactly 5:00 PM for cocktails on the deck.
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By 6:45 when we left for dinner at Tidal Raves, it was raining again. Tidal Raves may well be my favorite seafood restaurant in the world. It’s small. It has great views from every table. And the food is superb. We had a half order of Seahawk Bread with our cocktails. Soup comes with the meal – I had clam chowder while Elaine had smoked salmon chowder, For mains, I had pan fried oysters with fries and Elaine had Herbed Rockfish. The wine was Beaux Freres Les Cousins Pinot Noir from Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Pictures below.
The View from Our Table 
The Wine 
Cucumber Gin Gimlet 
Seahawk Bread 
Pan Fried Oysters 
Herbed Rockfish
Here’s an American success story. There are two older Hispanic gentlemen who have been at Tidal Raves for 25+ years. One busses tables, the other works in the kitchen. Well, the older of the two is now buying the place and will take over running it. They are very nice guys and I hope they succeed by keeping the place like it is now.
Nice success story, but current owners….retiring?? What’s the rest of the story? 😇
RAIN here today, supposedly from tropical storm in Mexico coming up the coast. Glad you two aren’t in the UK, unbelievable mess with Thomas Cook, so many stranded people!
Okay. Okay. I won’t ask about the chairs again!!
Tidal Raves sounds like a great restaurant and I love the name. Food looks scrumptious, especially the Seahawk Bread.
Beautiful pics from your balcony. Sorry Elaine couldn’t find a t-neck, but a corkscrew is way more important.
Strange, I just read an article that said turtlenecks are back in fashion. Apparently those doors haven’t caught up yet. Nothing like a turtle neck when it’s rainy and cold.
Can see what you mean about the beautiful views from the Tidal Rave restaurant, especially over your left shoulder, Joe. That little kid in the red jacket in Elaine‘s photo looks like he is batting her in the head!
Go Seahawks !
So Sue, that was the reason for the chair story again! Hope you and Jeff are doing well. As usual the food and sunsets look amazing Joe. Looking good Elaine without the turtleneck. XO Cindy