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Best New Restaurants of 2014

Kathryn Robinson
Author: Kathryn Robinson
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For this year’s Best Restaurants issue I chose the ten best places to make a name for themselves this past year.

Boy, was I surprised.

It’s not that the field was unusual. Possibilities included a hotel restaurant downtown. A venture (actually, several) from a well-known chef. A beautiful pris-fixe multi-course destination. A beloved neighborhood treasure.

I chose none of those.

Go figure that the ones clocking in as most impressive were not the ones I set out expecting would be the biggest wows—probably because they occupied a more downmarket place on the spectrum. Think barbecue, fish and chips, pizza. A bar. A bottleshop!

The soul of 2014 resided in joints like these, that got the basics right. See which places they are in our November issue, hot off the presses.

  




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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.