The sweetest drinks are from the craft cocktail list, including the 1888 Blend (cinnamon/orange-infused brandy, Cointreau & Metaxa). Down a few and order up the Rabbit w/ Serrano ham & a sage jus. Read more.
Dana Tough and Brian McCracken, the owner-chefs at Belltown’s Spur Gastropub. “We prefer ‘modern techniques.’ ” Read more.
The single best thing to happen to Seattle dining in the last year was the launch of this stark, lively shot of Korean-Asian street food in Fremont: brainchild of chefs Rachel Yang and Seif Chirchi. Read more.
Outdoor seating in the back, great happy hour 5-7, so much variety for just the burgers alone, and sweet potato fries (-:
The changing menu is dependably shot through with a strong Mediterranean streak. If you’re a pork rind person, these ones are housemade, fun with cocktails, and locally famous. Read more.
The crepes are wonderful, but come for dinner. The menu is divine. Great house red too.
One of the best meals I've had in Seattle was here. Love the ambiance, service and menu of creative and well executed dishes. A must for those who enjoy their food.
Maria Hines is a culinary intuitive, with an innate sense of what flavors and textures belong together, and as ironclad a commitment to organic ingredients as any chef working in Seattle today. Read more.
Matt Dillon obeys the muse—and more often than not the muse has one heck of a palate. His free-flowing style brings diners home-kitchen-esque combinations that make eating at Sitka wicked good fun. Read more.
Tom Douglas’ Serious Pie for serious pizza. Fabulous service and food. Super fun and casual. -Rick Tramonto, Top Chef
Owner and chef Renee Erickson marries French technique with Northwest seasonal ingredients in a menu that pays about equal homage to meat and seafood, with plenty of vegetables. Read more.
Owner and chef Jerry Traunfeld once ran the region’s most venerated culinary destination; that bastion of nine-course, straight-from-the-garden meals. And he is, at the moment, the best chef in Seattl Read more.
Ethan Stowell offers a family-style multicourse option in his bedimmed and brick-lined Staple and Fancy, for just $45 per diner—and a whopping 80 percent of his patrons choose it... Read more.
A line snakes out from this Pioneer Square salumeria every day at lunchtime—so long on summer days, Salumi chefs have been known to walk out to the tail of the line to talk folks out of waiting. Read more.
This spot serves beer & wine to go w/ their East-coast-style-awesome grub like the 12" Philly Cheese Steak w/ Whiz, the corned beef/pastrami/Swiss/spicy mustard on rye New Yorker. Read more.
With seven oyster varieties daily, W&C is a nosher’s paradise, not a dinner house, so plan accordingly. Then plan to wait, as dozens crowd the line ahead of you, and reservations aren’t accepted. Read more.
From chef Thierry Rautureau, it’s simply the finest French cuisine in Seattle, served in a pretty Madison Valley house with creamy walls, polite pastel paintings, and reverent service. Read more.
It does affordable, accessible lunches of wood-oven pizzas and halibut and pork belly buns, hipster happy hours, sophisticated multicourse affairs, or a la carte dinners for drop-in shoppers. Read more.
It's an Old World-styled German restaurant and bar in shiny new Cascade, populated by upwardly mobile young condo dwellers from all over the emerging South Lake Union neighborhood. Read more.
Seven years in, Jason Wilson has proved himself incapable of resting on his formidable laurels (James Beard, Food and Wine)—and diners will taste it in the form of a thousand perfect surprises. Read more.
This storefront treasure isn’t fancy, but it is revered among Vietnamese for serving unheralded specialties from around the old royal capital of Huê, the epicenter of Vietnamese cuisine. Read more.
Some joints stay new forever; some are old souls from the moment they blow the foam off the inaugural pint. That's King's Hardware. Credit Linda Derschang and partners for its blazing authenticity. Read more.
In a city veritably drowning in the Vietnamese beef noodle soup known as pho—this funny little institution (and its sister just six blocks away) does a version for the ages. Read more.
It’s quite simply the best burger in town—an opinion agreed upon by so many groupies, it’s pretty much fact. Veggie burgers, too, along with fish-and-chips at the newest location by the Ballard locks. Read more.
This six-table boite serves feisty little Parisian cocktails and a short list of just-the-thing noshes. Sara Naftaly brings a saucier’s understanding of flavor and a locavore’s passion to the drinks Read more.
Bar del Corso is not only an intoxicating place to be, it’s a dazzling place to eat, off a seasonal menu of buoyant salads, Euro antipasti, Italian desserts, and simply exquisite pizza. Read more.
It’s actually comfort food—unrecognizable as such thanks to sophisticating grace notes: an amuse bouche, McCrain’s frequent forays into molecular gastronomy, and an uncommonly artful eye for plating. Read more.
The brilliance of Canlis is that it isn’t content to let mythic be enough. Jason Franey is an extraordinary chef: nudging the old girl into the new century without back-burnering classics. Read more.
Precious methods, yes, but applied to such down-to-earth dishes—a rib eye with onion rings, buttermilk fried chicken, mac and cheese with duck ham—it just registers as really, really good cooking. Read more.
Artfully composed plates hold small bites, but since nothing tops $12 you still feel like you’re getting away with murder. Cocktails are sophisticated to match. Read more.
Adventurous dining meets good eatin’ at this stunner in North Capitol Hill, brought to you by the culinary genius and Herbfarm alum Jerry Traunfeld. Read more.
Nobody comes to Shiro’s for wacky rolls or fusion, or even atmosphere. Shiro Kashiba’s namesake restaurant remains true to his vision of a traditional Japanese sushi house. Read more.
Why yes, those are jalapenos cradling your snow crab legs and eight-spiced tuna. Read more.
When it comes to good chowder, one can't look past Duke's Chowder House. They have many great options like their New England Clam. NW Coast Dungeness Crab & Bourbon Chowder is something special too.
They were selected as the best BBQ in Seattle and we couldn't agree more! We highly recommend the brisket, or the sampler platter Read more.
The place is dripping with antiquated, old-world charm. You need to try the pork belly sliders, tip your bartender, and thank me later. And use their bathroom :)
You're good to go with a take-out menu featuring Stumptown coffee, soups, salads, sandwiches, goods from the extensive deli case and on-site bakeshop selections.
