Over the last few months, the dining scene has been busy. A longtime winery finally lands in the city, a beloved Eastlake spot comes back to life, and new sandwich shops, bakeries, and comfort-food counters fill in neighborhood gaps. Here’s what’s new—and newly reopened—around town.

Fortuna Bottega

Phinney Ridge

Phinneywood—the borderlands between Phinney Ridge and Greenwood, that is—has really bloomed in recent years to become a hoppin’ culinary destination. The one problem? There’s not a lot of take-out. Fortunately, chefs Luca Sacchetti and Kirin Chun have us covered now. In Fortuna Bottega, Chun (Miller’s Guild, El Gaucho) has teamed up with his old friend and former coworker Sacchetti, whose parents were born in Abruzzo, Italy; the shop honors the latter’s father, who really loved a mortadella, stracciatella, and pistachio sandwich on Tuscan schiacciata bread. After bringing in Bakery Nouveau’s William Leaman to help perfect the bread recipe, the three christened the shop after the logo on Leaman’s mixer. The menu here is brief, with only seven (massive and elaborate) sandwiches available, plus potato chips, beer, and wine. Fortuna Bottega tends to sell out of the faves around lunchtime. We suggest going early.

DeLille En Ville

University Village

After 33 years, DeLille Wines finally hit the big time (kidding) with its new University Village wine bar and bistro, which opened in September. Taking over the old Amazon Books space, DeLille En Ville will be slinging its Rhône- and Bordeaux-style wines, as well as French-ish dinner and lunch dishes like steak frites, local oysters, and chicken-liver pâté. Although the state’s oldest winery has had a restaurant and tasting room for ages at its HQ in Woodinville, this is DeLille’s first food based foray in the city proper.

Toast-y-table. Seattle is raising a glass to DeLille En Ville, the new restaurant and bottle shop from DeLille Wines, where guests can sip wine and slurp oysters in equal measure.

Photos courtesy of DeLille Cellars

Pan de la Selva

Downtown Seattle

After a few years cruising the local farmers market circuit, baker Mayra Sibrian moved her panaderia operation to Seattle’s City Hall in mid-August. Specializing in Mexican and Central American bread and pastries, the Pan de la Selva’s eponymous “jungle bread” includes chocolate orejas (“ears,” similar to palmiers), blackberry-passion-fruit conchas, and pig-shaped puerquito cookies filled with sunflower butter. The lobbyside bakery snagged this sweet spot thanks in part to support from the Department of Economic Development’s Seattle Restored program, which matches small businesses and artists with vacant commercial storefronts in an effort to at once revitalize communities and boost the local economy.

Bin 47 + The Shed

Woodinville

Queen Anne’s beloved Eden Hill sadly closed its doors on September 4, its 10-year anniversary, but Chef Maximillian Petty barely took a breath before uncorking his new project. You’ll find him hanging out in Woodinville these days, heading up Bin 47, the PNW-sourced fine-diner inside the SOMM Hotel & Spa—both of which opened on September 28.

Bin 47 casts a spotlight on the abundant produce of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho; menus feature Penn Cove mussels from Whidbey Island with smoked leek and cider cream, Carlton Farms pork ribs dressed with Rainier-cherry barbecue sauce, and plenty of Washington wines.

The wine-themed luxury hotel also features a spa, an on-site wine cellar and tasting room, and a rooftop wine bar called the Shed—which the James Beard Award semifinalist will also helm.

Zax Eat ’n’ Three

Green Lake

Up at 70th and aurora, Zax Eat ’n’ Three has been delivering Southern comfort food to the Upper Left since late summer. With a menu designed around the Southern “meat and three” plate lunch, the counter-service spot lets customers pick a meaty main and three (or two) sides.

Things are kept classic with the mains—choose from meatloaf, smoked chicken, or pulled pork shoulder—while the sides get a little more global, with options including braised white beans with garlic and rosemary, charred maple-glazed carrots, and miso honey-butter green beans. Right away, folks across town were hyped over the smoked half-chicken, which is dunked, whole, in creamy, peppery Alabama white sauce—owner Zack Lester took the concept of Alabama white wings and just kept going. To round out the meal, it has icebox cake and sweet tea, too.

Cicchetti

Eastlake

What’s old is new again: Eastlake’s lovely Cicchetti, a COVID-era casualty, re-opened on September 23 after a five-year hiatus. The little sister of street-facing Serafina, Cicchetti’s hidden garden-side entrance, sultry lighting, and snacky menu of small plates—er, cicchetti, that is—gives it a lush romance that the neighborhood has dearly missed since 2020. After closing due to a worker shortage, the space was used for Serafina’s catering business and private events, but the redux showcases a revitalized dining room , a leveled-up beverage program, and menus full of fresh new dishes and Cicchetti classics, care of Serafina’s chef and owner, Christian Chandler.