morfire — Restaurant in Seattle

We stopped into Morfire after arriving in Seattle on a cold day craving some hotpot. Morfire serves both family style and individual sized hotpot, along with some other appetizers and Thai inspired dishes.

We ordered the mango milk tea, Thai tea, some of their Thai dishes, and the hotpot with beef, Tom yum, and herbal soup broths. For meat we ordered the pork belly, painted hill beef, and lamb slices. We also ordered chrysanthemum (tong ho), quail eggs, enoki mushrooms, bok choy, edamame, chilled tofu (hiyayakko), and the quail eggs wontons.

The quail egg wontons were tasty. The chilled tofu was refreshing and light in flavor. The edamame were good and are hard to mess up.

I liked the herbal broth the most. It starts off with a lighter flavor that deepens the more ingredients you add. The beef broth was very sweet and not my favorite, but was a good change from the herbal broth every now and then. The Tom yum was tasty, spiced, and sour but I quickly got tired of the flavor after just a spoonful.

I felt the meat quality was very good and the serving sizes per plate were decent. We ordered 6 plates of meat to share between 3 people, including the other vegetables. The slices had decent marbling and tasted very fresh. My favorite was unexpectedly the pork belly.

The drinks were just okay. The Thai tea tasted strongly of coconut milk/creamer and didn’t have much tea flavor, but was still decent. I was told the mango milk tea tasted like a mango lassi in tea form, and did not try it myself.

The Thai dishes were also decent.

I was a little hesitant visiting Morfire for hotpot at first but was pleasantly surprised with my experience. The hotpot itself was decent and hot the spot on a cold fall night. The portion sizes and pricing were not bad all things considered, but definitely leans toward the pricier side...

Update 30 October 2020.

I wish Google would add a mechanism for multiple reviews of a place. I understand the risk - fake reviews.

I was out walking around thinking about food. Bumped into a friend and mentioned that. She asked if I'd been to Morfire. I said yes, and we both agreed that they're the friendliest people. I figured it was fate and went back for my usual - Kao Pad. I usually get it with either just veggies or with tofu, too. It's always delicious. I was tempted to get gyoza, too. Next time. I know we're all doing our own pandemic risk calculations - I'm comfortable going to Morfire. Walk in, order, staff masked, clearly labeled clean pens. I opt to wait outside. It's fast.

Sticking with the 4 star rating (saving that 5th star for the restaurant of restaurants).

Old Review. Recently started going here after walking by all the time. I really like the food, and the people are very nice. I haven't tried the hot pots yet. Seems like those are better suited to small groups. Instead, I've gone with the vegetarian "plates" options. Very tasty. It's not cheap, but it's on par for what you'll pay at a lot of Seattle spots. I usually get out of there for about $15, not including tip. That's a big meal and a ginger beer. If I get back to eating smaller portions more times throughout the day, the plate could (and should)...

We drove over to Capitol Hill and found street parking specifically to try this place because the food looked amazing. We came in at 8:00 PM on a Friday night after the rush died down and were told that there wasn't a table for us. The bartender took almost ten minutes to even acknowledge us. He took a check to two tables in different parts of the restaurant and then came over to ask how many were in our party (my partner and I were there,) we told him just the two of us. He told us he didn't have a table for us. I told him we would gladly wait until the other tables left and he said they were taken already even though there did not appear to be anyone else waiting inside or outside the restaurant. There were seats at the bar and we were not offered those either. I have never in my life been turned away from a restaurant, it came across like we weren't welcome there and left us feeling really bummed. While the food and experience looks amazing I wouldn't go back or suggest this place in worries of getting service like this at the door, I wouldn't want any of my friends or family to feel like they weren't welcome at a...