seattle restaurants
Validated, a New App, Gets You Around the City for Free
Like many Seattleites, Tov Arneson enjoys the growing riches of restaurants and shops the city offers. But he found that the cost of getting to these spots—in parking fees or via a rideshare service—was becoming a challenge. That’s when he and his friend Ian Lyman came up with an idea: Why not let businesses buy…
Inside the Issue: Best New Restaurants
November’s Best New Restaurants issue (co-written by Eater’s Allecia Vermillion, it hits newstands this week) was a pure pleasure to work on because of the spirit of looking ahead, of seeing what (and who!) is on the verge of making it big in Seattle food. You’ll notice Hayley Young’s stunning portraits of the nine emerging food people whose names you…
Best New Restaurants 2011
Just when you think you’ve got Seattle restaurants all figured out, a new batch opens.
We’re all about noise, fun and affordability, if you take the crowds packing the Brave Horse Tavern and Revel as evidence. But then the Madison Park Conservatory and the elegant Book Bindery come onto the scene to up the sophistication quotient. And don’t forget our never-ending love affair with pizza and burgers, food trucks and…
7 Restaurants to Watch
We have high hopes for these just-opened (and yet-to-open) eateries.
>>Modern comfort food (with menu consultation by Poppy’s Jerry Traunfeld!) makes Grace Kitchen at the U Village intriguing. Great food at the mall? Here’s hoping. >>Former Canlis chef and cookbook author Greg Atkinson will take the plunge later this year and open his first restaurant, Marché, on Bainbridge Island. Northwest bistro is the genre; seafood,…
Best New Restaurant Decor
Our new crop of restaurants is reversing the overdone Ikea-meets-thrift-store trend with eye-catchin
Staple & Fancy’s wall with an old cigar advertisement (see photo above): When crews were renovating Ballard’s historic Kolstrand Building, they unearthed a painted sign proclaiming a former tenant as a “dealer in Staple & Fancy.” Though those words are on the second floor of the building, Ethan Stowell named his newest restaurant after the…
Who’s Serving Who? The State of Service in Seattle
The customer may not always be right, but don't we have any rights?
There’s an American Express poll that repeats like a broken record inside my brain. It’s dated by now—a restaurant critic mentor quoted it to me a decade ago—but the gist is that the majority of people make the decision of whether to return to a restaurant based on the service. Not on the food. Not…
Book Bindery: Best New Restaurant 2011
A Queen Anne spot where environs are just as elegant as the food coming out of the kitchen.
True, chef Shaun McCrain has an impressive background that includes Thomas Keller’s fine-dining beacon Per Se in New York City. And his signature dishes, such as the pork belly and melon appetizer ($14) and caramelized scallops ($25), are unapologetically focused on technique and composition. But that doesn’t impress as much as the fact that the…
Revel
Fun, accessible, spicy Korean dishes in a supremely likable, upbeat space
We’re admittedly a bit of a broken record when it comes to chefs Seif Chirchi and Rachel Yang: The couple’s first restaurant, Joule, serves some of the best and most original globe-trotting cuisine going in Seattle. Now at Revel, the casual “street food”–inspired Korean spot they opened in Fremont last winter, they’ve done it again:…
Sushi Kappo Tamura
We named this Eastlake sushi spot the Best New Restaurant of 2011.
What it brings to the table: Spine-tinglingly fresh fish shimmering from the sea, with a focus on sustainability and seasonality. Move over, Shiro’s and Nishino: This is the best sushi in Seattle—and it’s also the most consistently stellar restaurant to open this year. After decades of deserved praise, the two sushi powerhouses—Shiro’s and Nishino—have been…
Restaurants Blending Their Own Wines
Seattle restaurants and Washington wineries join forces to create signature blends that shine.
At Seattle’s Canlis restaurant, great wine is as essential as great food. With 14 consecutive Grand Awards for its wine list from Wine Spectator, an 18,000-bottle cellar and 2,500 selections on its 100-page wine list, Canlis has a dedication to wine that reaches far beyond that of most fine dining restaurants. But having the best…
Marie & Frères Passion Fruit Pops
A show-stopper snack in South Lake Union.
In the oh-so-civilized space that once housed chocolatier extraordinaire Claudio Corallo, Marie & Frères lives on in similar, elegant style. Owner Marie-Francoise Barnhart regularly travels to single-estate chocolate growers to select the chocolate for the store’s truffles, cocoa nibs and confections. (The shop currently uses organic fair-trade chocolate from South America.) And while chocolate connoisseurs…
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