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Critic’s Picks for Seattle Restaurant Week

There’s a lot of good eating on this list.

Cafe Campagne, a classic.

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Seattle Restaurant Week, which is in fact two weeks (April 12–16, April 19–23), offers diners a chance to sample three-course dinners for $30, along with some two-course lunches for $15.

Out of this year’s 130 participating restaurants, here are some I might choose:

Because the spendier the restaurant, the better the deal: Aqua by El Gaucho, El Gaucho.

Because they’re new-slash-sorta new and I’m itching to try: Hecho, Salt and Iron in Edmonds, and Zhu Dang, the new Chinese place on Capitol Hill

If I were in Bothell…: Lunch at Preservation Kitchen, dinner at the newish Amaro Bistro (from the Il Bistro folks)

Because I like these neighborhood gems: Alicia Fusion Bistro in Leschi, Crow on Lower Queen Anne, Frank’s Champagne Parlor and Oyster Bar in Ravenna

Because they’re classics for a reason: Cafe Campagne,  Restaurant Zoe, Lark

For lunch…: MistralKitchen, Miyabi 45th, RN74

Because I love how it feels in…: Tin Table, Serafina, Rione XIII

 

 











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.