We celebrated Mom's 83rd birthday this year at Volterra in Ballard. It's a fairly new restaurant off Market Street, with an upscale interior and rustic country-style Italian fare merged with Seattle's seafood favorites. It was a long and leisurely meal, with wine and bruschetta as an appetizer. Steaks with mushroom sauce and vegetable dumplings in a mushroom broth were our main courses, with salads before the main dishes. It was finished with a large tiramisu with a birthday candle on it, which we all shared.
The restaurant had lovely stained glass windows (made by a local artisan), and they were beautiful as the sun set that Saturday evening. The hanging lights were made in Italy, in the town of Volterra, where the chef and his wife spent some time learning the cuisine before opening this restaurant. The artwork on the walls also portrayed black and white images of daily life in the small village of Volterra.
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