Eat & Drink

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

Afternoon Delight

Eat This: Meze Platter at Berna's Bakery & Café

Take dinner for a dip at this Issaquah Turkish spot.

10/10/2025 By Naomi Tomky

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

Big Dumpers

Expand Your Dumpling Universe

There’s a whole world out there beyond xiao long bao.

10/07/2025 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

Lettuce Rejoice

A New Generation Blossoms at MacPherson’s and Rising Sun Produce Markets

Despite retirement, fire, and rising costs, things are just peachy at these storied corner shops.

10/02/2025 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

Cart Wheels Through Time

A Timeline of Seattle’s Homegrown Supermarket Chains

These Seattle stores were first in line to make history.

09/25/2025 By Naomi Tomky

Stalled Out

A Completely Subjective Ranking of the 5 Worst Grocery Store Parking Lots in Seattle

Are supermarket developers secretly trying to push people toward public transit?

09/24/2025 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

100 Years of Fortitude

The Very American History That Shaped Town & Country Markets

The family behind Town & Country Markets overcame the Great Depression, Japanese Incarceration with help from their Bainbridge Island community.

09/22/2025 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

Cart Blanche

Seattle’s Best Independent Grocery Stores

If they don’t have it, you don’t need it.

09/18/2025 By Naomi Tomky

Magic Ate Ball

AI Will Change How We Grocery Shop, but Not the Way You Think

An expert offers her predictions of what’s next for local food stores.

09/15/2025 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

Personal Shopper

Inside the Life of an Instacart Shopper

‘The faster you are, the sooner you can deliver.’

09/11/2025 By Eric Nusbaum

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

Spice Route

Tacoma’s Grann Serves a Smoking Mix of Barbecue and Indian Food

The ambitious fusion of Indian cuisine and soul food makes a compelling, if imperfect, case for dinner down south.

09/08/2025 By Naomi Tomky

Hey Mr. KJ

Seattle's Best Karaoke Bars

Cue the vocal warm-ups and songbook flipping. Here’s your guide to the best karaoke around the city—no skill required.

09/05/2025 By Taylor McKenzie Gerlach

Air Fare

Eat This: Empanadas at the Airport

Neighborhood Bubble Tea & Coffee adds a little color to SeaTac’s Terminal D.

08/29/2025 By Naomi Tomky

Seattle Met

Eat & Drink

Little Beast Is Seattle Met’s Restaurant of the Year

Eat This: Meze Platter at Berna's Bakery & Café

De La Soil Grows a New Kind of Restaurant in Kenmore

Expand Your Dumpling Universe

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

A New Generation Blossoms at MacPherson’s and Rising Sun Produce Markets

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

A Timeline of Seattle’s Homegrown Supermarket Chains

A Completely Subjective Ranking of the 5 Worst Grocery Store Parking Lots in Seattle

Fall’s Tasty Trends and Fusty Fads

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