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Where Seattle’s Best Chefs Are Dining

Pay attention to where the pros go.

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What Matt Dillon might be eating at Peloton. (Yeah…it’s really good.)

In my line of work I frequently see chefs dining in other people’s restaurants. Like Tom Douglas (Carlile Room, and a few more), all the time. He once said he tries to eat in two restaurants daily: one of his own, one of someone else’s.

In the last few months I’ve spied Matt Dillon (Sitka and Spruce, etc.) brunching at Peloton. Mike Easton (Il Corvo) lunching at Nirmal’s. Ethan Stowell (Staple and Fancy, and others) walking by Stateside. (Can’t verify whether or not he came in…but man, for his sake I hope he did. Stateside’s amazing.)

Even more telling are the restaurants chefs tell journalists are their favorites. Coincidentally, the June Seattle Met includes a feature in which Seattle’s most promising young culinary achievers name the Seattle restaurant that fed them most memorably. A few might surprise you.

Check it out here in Next Hot Chefs 2016.











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.