About the Silverwater Café
The Silverwater Café was established in 1989. We started as a little café with a staff of ten. Our business has gradually grown over the years, and we find ourselves now housed in our own building, with a staff of up to 55 in the busy season. Many of the staff members have been with us from the beginning, continually raising the levels of experience and dedication. We have catered over a hundred weddings, dozens of private parties and office parties. Anniversaries, graduations, engagements, retirements, holidays... we have done them all.
We love what we do. We strive to continue to perfect our craft, bringing inspiration to one another on a daily basis, so that we can incorporate it into our work, and, ultimately, to you. We believe that life is about good food and good friends.
The restaurant is owned by Alison Hero and David Hero. Alison has been cooking professionally since she was 12. She oversees the kitchen, and the production for catering. David is the lead baker, baking all of the wedding cakes and desserts for the restaurant. Our first cookbook, "Golden Moments at the Silverwater Café" was published in 1999. It contains over 125 of our most popular recipes, plus many entertaining stories about the staff and customers over the years. It is a bit of a scratch book, as well as a cookbook.
We also carry a line of spice blends. Originally developed for use in our kitchen, by popular demand we now sell them retail.
Getting to the Silverwater
The Silverwater Café is located right in the heart of downtown Port Townsend's Historic District It is on the corner of Washington and Taylor Streets, across from Haller Fountain and next to the Rose Theatre.
Silverwater Café 237 Taylor St. Port Townsend, WA 98368 - (360) 385-6448
The Washington State Ferries site has schedules and fares for getting to Port Townsend:
Seattle
to Bainbridge Island (Winslow)
Seattle
to Bremerton
Edmonds
(north of Seattle) to Kingston
Port
Townsend to Keystone
On printed ferry schedules make sure to check that it covers the period when you'll be traveling!
PTguide has directions for coming from any point on the compass.