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And the Seattle Met 2015 Restaurant of the Year Is…

…a place where 148 lucky diners ate very, very well last night.

Kathryn Robinson
Author: Kathryn Robinson
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Those chili-cumin pork ribs.

Amberjack crudo with lime leaf powder and chiles. Crispy duck fresh rolls. Chili cumin pork ribs. Crème fraiche cheesecake.

Got it yet?

At Stateside, the genre-busting Vietnamese marvel on Pike, this food (and more) is so precise and so exuberant, and served by such pros, it swept past this year’s bumper crop of new openings to take our annual Restaurant of the Year title. Yesterday morning 148 Seattle Met readers who had signed up for this year’s Secret Supper got the super-secret email notifying them of just where that supper would take place, which it did last night in two seatings, including the aforementioned food with matching wines, ciders, and cocktails.  

Those diners had a great time discovering why Stateside is so uncommonly fine. Now you can too, right here in our November Restaurant Issue. Or on the newsstand, if you prefer.




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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.