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. Mehr erfahren.
Dana Tough and Brian McCracken, the owner-chefs at Belltown’s Spur Gastropub. “We prefer ‘modern techniques.’ ” Mehr erfahren.
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. Mehr erfahren.
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. Mehr erfahren.
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. Mehr erfahren.
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. Mehr erfahren.
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. Mehr erfahren.
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 Mehr erfahren.
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... Mehr erfahren.
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. Mehr erfahren.
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. Mehr erfahren.
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. Mehr erfahren.
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. Mehr erfahren.
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. Mehr erfahren.
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. Mehr erfahren.
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. Mehr erfahren.
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. Mehr erfahren.
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. Mehr erfahren.
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. Mehr erfahren.
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. Mehr erfahren.
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 Mehr erfahren.
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. Mehr erfahren.
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. Mehr erfahren.
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. Mehr erfahren.
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. Mehr erfahren.
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. Mehr erfahren.
Adventurous dining meets good eatin’ at this stunner in North Capitol Hill, brought to you by the culinary genius and Herbfarm alum Jerry Traunfeld. Mehr erfahren.
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. Mehr erfahren.
Why yes, those are jalapenos cradling your snow crab legs and eight-spiced tuna. Mehr erfahren.
They were selected as the best BBQ in Seattle and we couldn't agree more! We highly recommend the brisket, or the sampler platter Mehr erfahren.