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Slack Tide Fish Co. opens this week in Scott's Addition
Slack Tide Fish Co. opens this Friday in Scott's Addition.
Why it matters: The Mid-Atlantic seafood-focused restaurant is the final piece of the Ballast complex, which has been in the works for more than two years.
The big picture: Slack Tide, and the complex, are from the owners (and brothers) of Yellow Umbrella Provisions: Thomas and Tucker Brown.
The duo tapped award-winning chef Caleb Shriver, formerly of Dutch & Co. restaurant (RIP), to lead the kitchen and menu and then another award winner, Steve Yang, to helm the cocktail list.
The restaurant joins Yellow Umbrella Provisions' third local market location and Cirrus Vodka's new tasting room in the one-time city stable turned cidery.
Flashback: A decade ago, the now Ballast complex was one of the hottest real estate deals of the year.
The circa 1940, city-owned cobblestone structure, which once housed mules and public works staff, had been vacant since the 1990s when the city started soliciting offers for the property.
In 2015, the city announced that Blue Bee Cider would get the Scott's Addition spot for the then-assessed price of $395,000.
Seven years later, the then-Blue Bee owner sold the building to its current owner — for $2.9 million. (In 2022, it was assessed at $1.6 million, per BizSense).
On the menu: Large and medium plates like a whole vermillion snapper, soft shell crab and andouille risotto, a smash burger, smoked trout and churros and "the broken egg," eggs with, jamon iberico, potato chips, soubise and trout roe ($10-$42).
If you go: Slack Tide is at 1320 Summit Ave. and open Tuesday-Friday, 4-10pm and Saturday, noon-10pm.
