Eat & Drink

Opening Dispatch

JarrBar Opens Tuesday in Pike Place Market

A former storage closet sees new life as a hospitable Spanish-styled bar.

11/09/2015 By Allecia Vermillion

Critic's Notebook

Go to a Seattle Restaurant, Feed the Hungry

Just in time for Giving Season: a most charitable restaurant app.

11/09/2015 By Kathryn Robinson

Shift Change

Zoi Antonitsas Moving on from Westward

What's next?!?

11/09/2015 By Allecia Vermillion

Shifts & Shakeups

This Week in Restaurant News: Belltown's Newest Cantina, a Ramen Newcomer, and East Anchor Seafood

Plus, a new globally inspired brunch at Nue.

11/06/2015 By Sophia Lizardi

Expansion Mode

Big Mario's Opens Today in Lower Queen Anne

Get ready, this pizzeria plans to pop up all over Seattle.

11/06/2015 By Agazit Afeworki

Big News

Chester Gerl Will Return to Seattle to Open Gracia

The former Matt's in the Market chef turns his attention to Mexico's "crazy infinite" cuisine.

11/05/2015 By Allecia Vermillion

Critic's Notebook

A Whole New Type of Restaurant Emerges in Seattle

And why it’s happening now.

11/05/2015 By Kathryn Robinson

The Restaurant Issue

2015: The Year That Wouldn't Quit

No list of remarkable new restaurants would be complete without…

11/04/2015 By Kathryn Robinson

Expansion Mode

Vendemmia's Brian Clevenger Will Open East Anchor Seafood Next Door in Madrona

Oh, and Vendemmia is getting a private dining room and a massive rooftop garden.

11/04/2015 By Allecia Vermillion

Food & Drink Events

Nosh Pit Weekly Planner: November 4–10

The week in which: Bottlehouse sets the mood with oysters, Geraldine's Counter hosts a cookie decorating party, and whiskey, cocktails and mescal round out the week.

11/04/2015 By Agazit Afeworki

Revamps

Seattle's Gum Wall to Be Completely Scrubbed

A clean slate for the city's stickiest icon.

11/03/2015 By Karin Vandraiss

Oeno Files

Weekly Wine Pick: Cloudlift Cellars Stratus Petit Verdot Columbia Valley 2012

An exceptional wine and an exception to the rule of petit verdot.

11/03/2015 By Sean P. Sullivan

Opening Dispatch

Renee Erickson's Bateau and Bar Melusine Debut This Week

Steak and oysters and two lovely rooms. With a third on the way.

11/02/2015 By Allecia Vermillion

Critic's Notebook

What It's Really Like to Work in a Seattle Restaurant

New survey gives it to us straight.

11/02/2015 By Kathryn Robinson

Back Fence

Happy Friendsgiving

Why we’re increasingly choosing to feast with friends over family.

11/02/2015 By Kathryn Robinson

Shifts & Shakeups

This Week in Restaurant News: Mario's, Mollusk, and an Ethan Stowell Opening

Plus, an old-fashioned soda fountain coming to Pike Place Market.

10/30/2015 By Karin Vandraiss

Coming (Very) Soon

Gastropod Successor Mollusk Opens Saturday in South Lake Union

The entirety of the original brewpub could fit inside the dish pit here.

10/30/2015 By Karin Vandraiss

The Restaurant Issue

Memorable Meals in Bars

It’s been years since Seattle’s bars have been just for drinking. But not until 2015 have so many made the critical crossover to genuinely memorable eating, with small plates evoking real places and real cultures.

10/30/2015 By Kathryn Robinson