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The most elegant bar in Pioneer Square is all light hues and ladylike linens, every inch the next generation of the legendary Il Terrazzo Carmine down the hall. The food is its equal—classics like beet salad and octopus risotto and buttery lamb chops, served as small plates—with an amaro collection headlining at the bar. Read more...
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As the corner coffee shop is to Seattle, so the bocadillo snack cafe is to Spain: casual, all-day, everywhere, essential. Chico Madrid is both—a sleek and mod splash of Europe on the west flank of Capitol Hill, with stunning beverages and noshes and just the patio for enjoying them. The all-day menu features bocadillo sandwiches—toasted baguettes with simple, pure ingredients, Read more...
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From the restlessly creative mind of Matt Dillon (Sitka and Spruce, the Corson Building) comes his most hyperlocal restaurant—both culinarily and philosophically, as Bar Sajor is driving the revival of Seattle’s original neighborhood, Pioneer Square. The corner space looking out on the ruffly trees of Occidental Mall is lofty and Old World white—like an English farmhouse reclaimed by the Parsons Read more...
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Japanese happy-hour machine Billy Beach has brought us Japanese street food (Kushibar) and Latin-Japanese fusion (Japonessa), but at this classy spot in the heart of Ballard the culinary focus is more traditionally Japanese. Not that you’ll notice the kitchen’s gravitas against the throbbing reggae soundtrack and the crush of scenesters drawn in by the tidal pull that is a Billy Read more...
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One can pretty affordably assemble a giddy repast from some 10 varieties of salumi, several vegetable nibbles, a half dozen bruschetta, and a dozen or so pizzas at empire builder Ethan Stowell’s sleek nosh bar. Toppings are beautiful on the pizzas—particularly housemade guanciale, mozzarella, and a sweet dusting of fennel pollen—but the crackly-pillowy-blistery crusts are too oily. Instead, try some Read more...
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At Ballard’s Essex, mason jars with Sharpie-labels—housing, oh, a celery tincture or a vanilla angostura—line the top shelf and sing trophy-like testament to the same handcrafted tradition of its next-door pizza-slinging sibling Delancey. And if the taco and tiki Tuesdays seem like a non sequitur for a Euro-tinged bar, they’re also a welcome reminder that our cocktails can come with Read more...