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It’s the Party No Seattle Food Lover Should Miss

Partly because Seattle Met throws it. Mostly because the food will be astonishing.

And how do we know the food will be so good? Because we handpicked the chefs for their talent.

Three years ago Seattle Met food and drink editor Allecia Vermillion had a killer idea: What if we scoured the city’s restaurants to find the next generation of household names?

The Ethans and the Toms and the Renees you know…but what about the folks toiling in stations beneath them—the chefs and sous chefs and, yes, line cooks whose nightly labors add up to the steady consistency that turns a good restaurant into a great one? Next Hot Chefs was born. In this city the turnaround time between being a lesser-known talent and a marquee name is getting shorter and shorter. We’re doing our part to dispense with it altogether.

So Allecia and I scoured the city and, armed with your nominations, wound up with these five stunning talents. They will provide the food for a party in their honor to be held Thursday, June 25 from 6 to 9pm on the rooftop of the new luxury high-rise Premiere on Pine. Expect cocktails, cider, photo booths, and a caricature artist. Get Next Hot Chef tickets quick; this event sells out at 75.

Seriously, you don’t want to miss this food.

  











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.