Food News

Friday Feed

Culinary Empires on the Move with Openings from Brendan McGill and Renee Erickson

Plus an intriguing correction and six more new restaurants to get excited about.

10/31/2025 By Naomi Tomky

Hot Topic

Tasty Trends and Fusty Fads

The hottest and nottest in the local food scene this season.

10/31/2025 By Naomi Tomky

Best Food Forward

What Seattle Does Best

The restaurant genres where our little city punches above its weight.

10/27/2025 By Naomi Tomky

Friday Feed

What Does $5 Buy You at Seattle's Best New Restaurants?

Plus the Ink Drinker opens a book bar, Salt & Straw puts fish on ice cream, and more food news.

10/24/2025 By Naomi Tomky

Knives Out

A Butter Place Spreads Creativity to the Dairy Aisle

Adrian Sanders churns up wild flavors designed to make dinner easier.

10/21/2025 By Naomi Tomky

Friday Feed

Mbar Closing, Oh Sun Pivoting, and Arabic Cafés Trending

This week's food news also has a bit of grocery store gossip.

10/17/2025 By Naomi Tomky

Best New Restaurants 2025

Little Beast Is Seattle Met’s Restaurant of the Year

At his bold English pub, Kevin Smith dares to be butcher, baker, and money-maker.

10/13/2025 By Naomi Tomky Photography by Amber Fouts

Taste Good Inc.

De La Soil Grows a New Kind of Restaurant in Kenmore

At the restaurant of the future, the doughnuts taste like French onion soup and you bus your own table.

10/09/2025 By Naomi Tomky

Friday Feed

Asparagus Tamales Available in Seattle, Backyard Bagel's Smart Slice, and More Food News

Seattle gets two new Japanese curry spots and a beautiful cocktail bar called Majnoon.

10/03/2025 By Naomi Tomky

Friday Feed

The Starbucks Reserve Roastery and Pancake Chef Are Closing, Pidgin Is Open

Plus the Pastry Project is opening a bakery and the Salvadorean Bakery is opening a café.

09/26/2025 By Naomi Tomky

Hot Topic

Fall’s Tasty Trends and Fusty Fads

The hottest and nottest in the local food scene this season.

09/23/2025 By Naomi Tomky

Friday Feed

Could Vito's Return? Who Eats at the Space Needle? And More Food News

Plus new locations for Café Sabah, In Pizza We Crust, and Shug's Soda Fountain.

09/19/2025 By Naomi Tomky

Friday Feed

Eden Hill Chef's Next Move, Queen City's Royal Resurrection, and More Food News

Happy Crab opened on Shilshole and Seattle is getting its first Burundian restaurant.

09/12/2025 By Naomi Tomky

The Fault in Their Stars

Seattle Doesn’t Need the Michelin Guide

Seattle's lack of Michelin stars is a good thing, actually.

09/08/2025 By Naomi Tomky

Fond Farewell

Groundbreaking Syrian Restaurant Mamnoon to Close in September

After 13 years of unwavering commitment to Middle Eastern cuisine on Capitol Hill, the oven will bake its last flatbread.

08/25/2025 By Naomi Tomky

Friday Feed

Phinney Ridge’s Restaurant Renaissance and More Food News

Roy Southern Thai, Salad Party, and Grillbird are all open, with Fortuna Bottega on the way.

08/22/2025 By Naomi Tomky

Double Double Trouble

I Braved Washington’s First In-N-Out Burger Line

Worth the wait? Sure. Worth the drive? It depends.

08/21/2025 By Allison Williams

Holy Pepperoni

Sacro Bosco Is Not a Pizza Restaurant. Thank God.

Temple Pastries’ sibling serves beauty and a feast.

08/20/2025 By Naomi Tomky

Friday Feed

Gao Lhao, Kin Len's Noodle Sibling Opens, and More Food News

Two cafés are coming to King Street and Queen Anne's Salt & Straw is scooping soon.

08/15/2025 By Naomi Tomky

She’s Got Big Bowls

She Sells Xiao Long Bao by the Seashore

With Happy Crab on Shilshole, Lily Wu’s unflagging ambition brings Chinese cuisine and so much more to one of the city’s premier restaurant spaces.

08/12/2025 By Naomi Tomky