Honestly, every SINGLE one of these is BOMB but if we had to pick the killer pastry it would probably be the macaroons. Seriously, they will crunch and melt in your mouth simultaneously. Read more.
Pike Place Market is home to the first Starbucks, Rachel the Pig, numerous street performers and entertainers, and the Pike Place Fish Market, which features the fish-throwing fishmongers.
Chef Nathan Lockwood was most recently at supper club The Ruins. Now he has his own little spot on Capitol Hill, serving seasonal Italian with Northwest flourishes. [Eater 38 Member]
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. Read more.
Tom Douglas’ Serious Pie for serious pizza. Fabulous service and food. Super fun and casual. -Rick Tramonto, Top Chef
I just absolutely love this place because they have Molly Moon milkshakes at the bottom of the hill
Born in Japan's traditional city of Kyoto, Chef Shiro packed his bags as a teenager and trained with the culinary masters on the infamous Ginza in Tokyo.
This wine-centric Michael Mina restaurant is named after Highway 29, a road that runs from Dijon to Beaune in Burgundy's wine country. There’s no better place to drink your way through France.
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. Read more.
A Tuscany-inspired Italian restaurant. Has exemplary house-made pastas, and nearly half the menu is vegetarian friendly. A wine list that gives equal weight to Northern Italy and Washington state. Read more.
Eating at the wood-topped bar with a view of the kitchen and sharing family-style hand-cut egg pasta with butter and sage is about as close to Piedmont, Italy, as you'll get without a passport. Read more.
Get a Macchiato here! It's one of the best places and isn't that stupid fake stuff from Starbucks. I like it Italian style.
Brave Horse offers a well-curated list of local beers, amazing pretzels & impressive bar food. Check out the full calendar of special beer dinners and other events. [Eater 38 Member]
Neil Robertson's résumé—Joël Robuchon and Guy Savoy in Las Vegas—speaks for itself; but his true talents are better tasted. Must order: Ultra Brownie with peanut butter ice cream. Read more.
Has a comfortable dining room and a wide-ranging, globally inspired menu. Seafood truly stars, in vibrant ceviches and carefully wrought sushi rolls from the raw bar. Top-notch service and wine list. Read more.
More than 80 wines are available by the glass many organized into four 2.5-ounce tastes. Has an eclectic menu that encourages sampling as well. Try something from the "Tasting Bar," available after 3. Read more.
Built for the 1962 World Expo, Space Needle distinctive structure, rising 600-plus feet above Seattle Center , has since become Seattle's most famous landmark.
When Brouwer's isn't celebrating the burley virtues of barleywine — a rich, chewy, slightly sweet ale that packs a big alcohol punch — its 60-plus taps are devoted to a preponderance of Belgian beers. Read more.
Murray Stenson, a bartender here, was named "Best Bartender in America" by his peers at the Tales of the Cocktail festival, one of the highest honors in the industry! Read more.
This is the best and most authentic simple French food you'll ever get in Seattle and possibly the whole of the West Coast.
Hundreds of thousands of tourists have stopped by this pastry shop, including Anthony Bourdain. Pastries are less than $5, try the smoked salmon piroshky. Read more.
Easily one of Seattle's best bakeries, especially for baguettes and croissants. Recent addition: deep-dish pizza. Grab a croissant or two. That alone will entice you back to this neighborhood again. Read more.
Faced by the opulent pastry display the minute you walk in the door, you can hardly resist taking some with you. Get anything that might grace a pastry case in Rome like jam-filled mezzaluna cookies. Read more.
One of the Ten Best Happy Hours in the Nation! Fifty priced food items under $5 Fifteen Superlative Cocktails for $7.50, Happy Hour Every Day 4pm-6pm & 10pm-1am Read more.
Fresh biscuit with workshop ham, fried egg, cheddar and apple mustard is super tasty!
When out-of-towners want a restaurant recommendation, most of them are envisioning the sort of seafood-based comfort food on Kevin Davis's menu. Steelhead is a safe bet for all. [Eater 38 Member] Read more.
Great! Take crab with goad cheese as a starter. Avoid sea cocktail as a starter since there was ketchup in it which is awful. Anyway the rest we had was unexpectedly fabulous. Try local beer too.
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. Read more.
the croissants are amazing. i'm addicted to the ham and cheese, but the potato & bacon was yummy too and so filling!
Two words: bacon jam. That's the condiment served on the burger at food truck and now brick-and-mortar Diner. Allecia Vermillion of Seattle Met magazine says it has "become a local classic."
Star chef Tom Douglas prepares his Palace Burger Royale with local grass-fed beef, Beecher's cheddar from Pike Place Market and roasted onion buns baked at his own Dahlia Bakery.
Sink your teeth in the super bad boy roll during happy hour. Not a sushi fan? The wicked wings are just as the name implies - wicked.
It's the most come-as-you-are French cafe in town, suffused with a casual dailiness that makes it dangerously easy to become a regular. Read more.
