Run, don’t walk down to Yarrow Bay Grill on Carillon Point before it closes.

Yarrow Bay Grill

The restaurant is closing at the end of the month after a 20 year tenure on the Kirkland waterfront. It’s a great restaurant and I’ll truly miss it.  It’s been a wonderful place to get a terrific dinner in a nice, quite setting. I find there are few restaurants that fit that bill.  Rarely can I go out for a good meal and find a quiet, elegant, but not stuffy, atmosphere combined with good food.

I will miss the sunsets from the patio. It was always fun when I could snag a patio table in the summer.

Sunset View From Kirkland's Yarrow Bay Grill

Here’s what some of the staff from the restaurant told me to expect as the “new kid” on the block:  Bin Vivant, which opened last summer in the Woodmark Hotel, will take over the space after a remodel.  It’s name will be ” Bin on the Lake”. The space Bin Vivant now occupies in the Woodmark will become a special events venue.

Yarrow Bay Cafe, the more casual downstairs restaurant, shall remain with an expanded outdoor seating area.  I’m glad for that!  I do love those summer nights out on the patio by the lake.  It makes me realize how lucky I am to live in Kirkland.