Best of Seattle

The Best Tacos in Seattle

The Best Tacos in Seattle

In a city with so much great food, we wanted to know: What really takes the prize? Our critics tasted dozens of the very best tacos to find out

Taco Street’s barbacoa tacos with pickled onions and salsas

The Best Burger in Seattle

The Best Burger in Seattle

In a city with so much great food, we wanted to know: What really takes the prize? Our critics tasted dozens of the very best burgers to find out

Loretta’s Double Tavern Burger with pickles, onions and special sauce

The Best Pasta in Seattle

The Best Pasta in Seattle

In a city with so much great food, we wanted to know: What really takes the prize? Our critics tasted dozens of the very best bowls of pasta to find out

Pasta Casalinga’s lasagna and garden pasta with fava beans, walnuts, basil, ricotta and Calabrian chili oil

The Best Steak House in Seattle

The Best Steak House in Seattle

In a city with so much great food, we wanted to know: What really takes the prize? Our critics tasted some of the very best steaks to find out

Bateau’s 42-day aged ribeye from Carmen Ranch with marrow butter

The Best Doughnuts in Seattle

The Best Doughnuts in Seattle

In a city with so much great food, we wanted to know: What really takes the prize? Our critics tasted dozens of the very best doughnuts to find out

The Flour Box’s pistachio and “everything” doughnuts

The Best Ramen in Seattle

The Best Ramen in Seattle

In a city with so much great food, we wanted to know: What really takes the prize? Our critics tasted the very best bowls of ramen to find out

Hakata-style ramen with sliced pork, seaweed, green onions and an egg at Betsutenjin

The Best Brunch in Seattle

The Best Brunch in Seattle

In a city with so much great food, we wanted to know: What really takes the prize? Our critics tasted dozens of the very best brunch dishes to find out

The Fat Hen’s eggs baked in house-made tomato sauce and basil

Vote: The Seattle Magazine 2018 Best Restaurants Readers' Poll

Vote: The Seattle Magazine 2018 Best Restaurants Readers’ Poll

Cast your votes for the best restaurants in the Seattle area

Downtown Seattle restaurant Miller’s Guild, as pictured in a past Best Restaurants issue of Seattle magazine

Best of the Burbs: The Next Generation of Seattle Suburbs

Best of the Burbs: The Next Generation of Seattle Suburbs

Living outside the city has always been an attractive option for many, but with housing prices in Seattle going up, up and up, the suburbs around us are more magnetic than ever.

The Issaquah Highlands, a planned community, offers city-like density and amenities in the burbs

The 9 Best New Restaurants in Seattle

The 9 Best New Restaurants in Seattle

Restaurants come and go every year, but these new spots are the sort of places we’re hoping will become perennial favorites.

White Swan/100 Pound Clam’s fresh take on seafood includes oven-roasted octopus with caponata, long beans, braised celery hearts, toasted peanuts and chili oil, alongside a salad of English and snap peas and vi

Where to Get the Best Burgers and Beer in Seattle

Our town is full of delicious burger joints upping their game with artisanal ingredients. Discover where to find that next great burger, and the perfect beer to pair it with

A hot, juicy hamburger is as classic—and American—as apple pie, yet it straddles several current food trends, including the rise of comfort food and the desire for a fast, affordable meal that is made with integrity—a game we’re always upping in Seattle, especially when it comes to creativity. Here in our city, entire restaurants are…

New Eatery Tarsan I Jane Brings Valencian and Catalan Flair to Seattle

New Eatery Tarsan I Jane Brings Valencian and Catalan Flair to Seattle

The Spanish Revolution comes to Fremont

  Cooking is in PerfecteRocher’s bones. The self-taught Spanish chef, who has worked in Michelin-starred restaurants in London and San Francisco, grew up among the orange trees and rice fields of Villalonga, a mountain town in Valencia, where his grandfather ran a popular paella restaurant called Tarsan. Rocher practically lived in that kitchen, playing soccer…

Where to Drink a Yummy Sake Slushie

Where to Drink a Yummy Sake Slushie

On a hot day, a sake slushie from TankaSan is just the thing

When Eric Tanaka, executive chef and business partner for Tom Douglas’ restaurant group, suggested that it might be interesting to create a frozen sake juice box (as seen in Japan), Adam Chumas ran with the idea. But instead of a juice box, the bar director for Tom Douglas Restaurants proposed adding sake to a slushy…

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