In two compact storefronts, Eric Banh, one of the geniuses behind the Vietnamese bistro Monsoon, shoves the darnedest things into baguettes. Read more.
In two compact storefronts, Eric Banh, one of the geniuses behind the Vietnamese bistro Monsoon, shoves the darnedest things into baguettes. Read more.
A Thai Airways employee opened Bai Tong near Sea-Tac in 1989, where she created a home away from home for homesick expats with her authentic Siamese dishes. Read more.
By 6AM on weekdays, dense baguettes, gooey brown-sugar pecan brioche, and heavenly croissants start issuing from the ovens of Essential Baking Company's former executive pastry chef William Leaman. Read more.
Tokyo-stylish yet genuinely open-armed to scruffies and families. Affordable yet culinarily stimulating. A drop-in dining room, filled with long tables, alongside a bar full of exotic cocktails. Read more.
Tokyo-stylish yet genuinely open-armed to scruffies and families. Affordable yet culinarily stimulating. A drop-in dining room, filled with long tables, alongside a bar full of exotic cocktails. Read more.
Tokyo-stylish yet genuinely open-armed to scruffies and families. Affordable yet culinarily stimulating. A drop-in dining room, filled with long tables, alongside a bar full of exotic cocktails. Read more.
The latest in the happy boomlet of Pioneer Square luncheries, BuiltBurger is a tidy, minimalist burger joint with a laudable schtick: fixins ground up inside the meat. Read more.
Long the vegetarian standard-bearer in town, this beloved Madison Valley dining room can make gluten-free taste good. Read more.
It's the most come-as-you-are French cafe in town, suffused with a casual dailiness that makes it dangerously easy to become a regular. Read more.
There’s something for everyone in this converted root beer stand off Lake City Way and its sister in Renton, off menus marked Szechuan, Chinese (heavy on the Taiwanese), Vegetarian, and American. Read more.
There’s something for everyone in this converted root beer stand off Lake City Way and its sister in Renton, off menus marked Szechuan, Chinese (heavy on the Taiwanese), Vegetarian, and American. Read more.
The coup represented by Bellevue scoring the only Northwest outpost of the revered Taiwanese chain Din Tai Fung cannot be overstated: Quite simply the finest xiao long bao in the universe. Read more.
Elliott Bay Brewery and Pub has long been West Seattle's best-kept secret for its distinctive brews and thinking-person's pub grub. Read more.
Elliott Bay Brewery and Pub has long been West Seattle's best-kept secret for its distinctive brews and thinking-person's pub grub. It's sister property in Burien is every bit as alluring. Read more.
Walk into this downtown Bellevue bistro and find a well-oiled machine in full thrum, as dozens of servers dance out beautiful renditions of that dazzling cultural hybrid known as Taiwanese cuisine 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.
It was only a matter of time before someone in this thirsty town united the boutique coffee roaster with the fine wine bar—and at Fonté, genuinely terrific food is the glue. Read more.
A swell place for French toast, hash browns, and coffee cakes by morning, chili and hand-formed burgers by night—from folks who value quality, in a room that has become the soul of its neighborhood. Read more.
Here in the thick of the International District the pretty little Green Leaf gives you everything you want in a hole-in-the-wall and nothing you don't. Read more.
Under the Chinatown Gate in the International District sits a cozy eight-table homage to the warming home-style pork dishes, noodles, and stinky tofus of Taiwan. Read more.
Under the Chinatown Gate in the International District sits a cozy eight-table homage to the warming home-style pork dishes, noodles, and stinky tofus of Taiwan. Also in a second location in Bellevue. 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.
This sustainable sandwich stop's big chalkboard menu features sandwiches, soups, salads, and sides that burst with more than quality and freshness. 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.
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.
For two decades, Kafé Neo has served honest, full-flavored, refreshingly nongreasy Greek fare to a clientele that knows the difference Read more.
For two decades, Kafé Neo has served honest, full-flavored, refreshingly nongreasy Greek fare to a clientele that knows the difference 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.
You won’t spend much more than $10 for delicacies like kimchi beef sundubu jjigae, a concoction of tofu funked up with fermented cabbage. When the woman comes by to crack a raw egg over it, nod. 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.
Seattle turns out to be a particular bastion of the hand-shaved noodle. Our favorite is Mandarin Chef, an Ave storefront run by a Szechuan couple with just the skill sets to open a restaurant. Read more.
Marination Station slings the Spam sliders, kimchi fried rice and ginger-chicken tacos that got a city scratching its head and rubbing its tummy, along with outdoor seating and beer and wine. Read more.
Marination Mobile slings the Spam sliders and kimchi fried rice that got a city scratching its head and rubbing its tummy, and earned Good Morning America‘s Best Food Cart in the Nation award. Read more.
In the finest Thai food, spices all play their positions, each identifiable, all working as a team. Curries and noodle dishes at the color-splashed Noodle Boat are delicious, big league examples. Read more.
Ethiopian-born owner Mulugeta Abate wants to enlighten Northwest palates to include Senegalese chicken yassa, South African seafood bobotie, piri-piri chicken from the Portuguese colonies, and more. Read more.
Ethiopian-born owner Mulugeta Abate wants to enlighten Northwest palates to include Senegalese chicken yassa, South African seafood bobotie, piri-piri chicken from the Portuguese colonies, and more. 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.
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.
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.
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.
Pho Cyclo, from the folks who brought us Huong Binh, attracts the trillions with its fragrant noodle bowls, its stir-fries, its cheap-cheap banh mis, and its 12 varieties of pho. Read more.
Pho Cyclo, from the folks who brought us Huong Binh, attracts the trillions with its fragrant noodle bowls, its stir-fries, its cheap-cheap banh mis, and its 12 varieties of pho. Read more.
Pho Cyclo, from the folks who brought us Huong Binh, attracts the trillions with its fragrant noodle bowls, its stir-fries, its cheap-cheap banh mis, and its 12 varieties of pho. Read more.
The Jackson Street bistro is the talk of Chinatown with it's sleek interior and red lanterns, where Shanghai favorites are interspersed with Korean rarities like fermented black bean ja jang noodles. 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.
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.
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.
A clothes closet feels spacious by comparison, but this International District ramen-ya (along with its sibling on the Ave) is a near-perfect rendition of the tiny noodle shops of Japan. Read more.
A clothes closet feels spacious by comparison, but this International District ramen-ya (along with its sibling on the Ave) is a near-perfect rendition of the tiny noodle shops of Japan. Read more.
The proprietors of this spotless Roosevelt refuge are Lao, but much of the menu is Thai—some of the best in town in fact. And a tip: the V is pronounced like a B in Savatdee, Laotian for “hello.” Read more.
Get beyond the entry, with its clutter and its crab tanks, and you’re in for some of the most authentic, tightly executed, and clockwork-consistent Cantonese seafood in town. Read more.
For a starving artist, nothin’ says lovin’ like an overstuffed sandwich at an underpriced joint. That’s Smarty Pants, home of monster neohomespun grills and melts. Read more.
Fine Szechuan food is a thing of rare beauty in these parts, and if it’s spotted at all, it’s likely the doing of chef Cheng Biao Yang, plying his delectable trade at a slick storefront in Redmond Read more.
Portions are huge and prices loco-cheap. Best of all, indoor seating (with spinning stools!) and covered outdoor seating supply something akin to comfort. Sort of. Read more.
Read Kathryn Robinson's 25 best Seattle restaurants, our favorite cheap eats, a menu guide to the 50 top restaurants, and more, in our November 2011 issue.
