Chelsea Lin
Washington’s State Capital Is the Perfect Jumping-Off Point For a Day Spent Exploring
Just an hour’s drive south of Seattle, head to Olympia and check out the scenic Thurston Bountiful Byway
This article appears in print in the October 2018 issue, as part of the Scenic Fall Road Trips cover story. Click here to subscribe. The Interstate 5 corridor between Seattle and Olympia can be a disheartening slog through traffic and a visual assault of strip malls and billboards. But not too long after you pass Tacoma, the landscape changes. This…
True or False: Do These Seattle Business Services Exist?
Are these for real? Or did we make them up? In everything-goes Seattle, deciding may be harder than you think
This article appears in print in the September 2018 issue. Click here to subscribe. It’s a great time to be a Seattleite: Pot is legal! You can get cookies delivered to your door! A stranger will scoop your dog’s poop out of the yard before another stranger mows the lawn! These days, there seems to be a product…
Fried Rice and Pastrami? Yes, It’s Really Good
This noodle house’s best dish doesn’t actually include noodles
This article appears in print in the September 2018 issue. Click here to subscribe. Even if you’re the sort of food fanatic who can’t overhear the word “fusion” without a lethal dose of side-eye, hear us out: Reckless Noodle House, which opened in the Central District in January, is making a wok-kissed, salty-sweet fried rice ($16) whose star…
Check Out These Bright New Textiles for Gray Seattle
Pulp Design Studios in Queen Anne is partnering with renowned fabric company S. Harris on their first textile collection
This article appears in print in the September 2018 issue. Click here to subscribe. Pulp Design Studios’ principal interior designers, Beth Dotolo and Carolina V. Gentry, love color. They also understand the stereotypical Pacific Northwest aversion to it. Textiles, they say, are perhaps the easiest—and least committal—way to incorporate new colors and patterns into Northwest home decor. To…
The New Seattle Restaurants Doing One Thing and Doing It Well
This is the year of the singular sensation
This article appears in print as the cover story of the September 2018 issue. Read more from the Best of the Best Restaurants feature story here. Click here to subscribe. Westman’s Bagel and CoffeeCapitol Hill, 1509 E Madison St.; westmansbagel.comSure, there are other bagel shops in Seattle. But none so closely resemble that East Coast staple—and, perhaps more importantly,…
The Best Sushi 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 sushi to find out
This article appears in print as the cover story of the September 2018 issue. Read more from the Best of the Best Restaurants feature story here. Click here to subscribe. Best of the Best: Wataru Along a relatively quiet strip in Ravenna, the talk amongst foodies is all about chef Edouardo Jordan, whose duo of high-profile restaurants, JuneBaby and…
The Best Tasting Menu 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 tasting menus to find out
Steak salad with grilled king oyster mushrooms, grilled black cod cured in combu and marinated in sake and assorted tempura at Adana
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