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Best Restaurants 2010

Kathryn Robinson
Author: Kathryn Robinson and Judy Naegeli
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IF THE GREAT CUISINES really were born of scarcity, the Great Recession may be responsible for a restaurant renaissance in Seattle. We’re not just referring to the slew of new places that opened in the last year. We’re talking about the emergence of whole new ways of dining—startlingly different ways of dining than existed 10, even five, years ago. We’ve identified the dozen most influential gastronomic drifts, probed their origins, then named the most exciting Seattle restaurants that epitomize them right this minute.

Published in the Best Restaurants issue of Seattle Met.




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Kathryn Robinson
Kathryn Robinson
Senior Writer Seattle native Kathryn Robinson, award-winning restaurant critic and senior writer at Seattle Met, has been anonymously reviewing restaurants for over 30 years—first as editor of the Best Places guidebook series, then as staff critic at Seattle Weekly and contributing critic at The Seattle Times and Seattle magazine.  Midcareer she spent a year-long sabbatical studying comparative religion as a Knight Fellow at Stanford University where she had been an undergrad 10 years earlier, gaining a knowledge base she now calls upon for her monthly “Back Fence” column on our collective urban existence and the meaning it holds for our personal lives. In her off hours she is a partner and a parent—which means she has no off hours.