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.
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 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.
The best way to enjoy chef Ethan Stowell's minimalist take on rustic Italian fare is to spring for the four-course prix-fixe chef’s sampling: a combo of noshy starters, pasta, entree, and dessert. Read more.
Your old Iberian favorite is enjoying a performance renaissance, in tiny quarters as thick with old-country mood as any place in Seattle. And these days, there’s simply no going wrong with any of 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 sustainable sandwich stop's big chalkboard menu features sandwiches, soups, salads, and sides that burst with more than quality and freshness. Read more.
Lorenzo Lorenzo’s sandwich hut is so popular its addicts endure lines out the door knowing that they must pay cash, they will not get a table, and there will be hell to pay laundry-wise. 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.
The brick walls of old Ballard meet the terra-cotta tiles of old Mexico in the single most teeming, table-turning, earsplitting, salsa-sloshing sensation in town. Read more.
