Cookbook Review

Vegetarian Chinese Soul Food Presents an Easy, Compelling Route to Plant-Based Cooking

Local writer Hsiao-Ching Chou’s new cookbook is an exercise in exceptional approachability.

01/19/2021 By Stefan Milne

Storied City

Seattle's Blue Moon Tavern and the Fight for Historical Buildings

The University District dive, featured in a new PBS show, turns 87 this year. Can it persist as a piece of living history?

01/15/2021 By Stefan Milne

Eating Our Feelings

Celebrate with Inauguration Day Takeout from These Seattle Restaurants

From five-course tasting menus to breakfast sandwiches, to Pie-den Kam-ala Mode.

01/15/2021 By Karen Reyes

Big News

Canlis Chef Brady Williams Says Farewell to the Restaurant in February

Now to ponder what comes next, for an immensely talented chef, but also the singular role he leaves behind.

01/12/2021 By Allecia Vermillion

Opening Dispatch

Spice Waala’s New Indian Street Food Outpost Opens in Ballard

A second location for kathi rolls with a side of altruism.

01/08/2021 By Erin Wong

Oeno Files

5 Great Washington Wines for $18 and Under

Yes, you can get a rad $14 muscat-based white.

01/06/2021 By Sean P. Sullivan

Hole Foods

Behold, the Best Doughnuts in Seattle

Sprinkled, glazed, and occasionally topped with bacon: These are the city’s most impressive practitioners of fried dough.

12/31/2020 By Allecia Vermillion Photography by Amber Fouts

#HellaRice

Herschell Taghap’s Simple Saba Shio Recipe

Bring the Japanese neighborhood bar vibes home with the PNW’s other oily fish.

12/31/2020 By Herschell Taghap Photography by Herschell Taghap

Everything

At Last, Rubinstein Bagels Opens a Proper Shop

Hold onto your bagel chips...one of the town's most legit purveyors of bagelry now has a cafe at Sixth and Lenora.

12/29/2020 By Allecia Vermillion

Weird Year in Review

The 7 Best Things I Ate in My Car This Year

Bring on the mozzarella sticks revival.

12/28/2020 By Allecia Vermillion

Oeno Files

4 Sparkling Washington Wines for the Holidays

From the standard to the unexpected.

12/18/2020 By Sean P. Sullivan

Field Notes

The Glory, and the Cronuts, of Temple Pastries

Some truly impressive, very buttery things are happening inside this new Central District bakeshop.

12/17/2020 By Allecia Vermillion Photography by Amber Fouts

Tis the Season

When Company Zoom Parties Become a Restaurant Survival Tool

Corporate holiday parties have gone virtual this year, but the boost they give restaurants is very real.

12/17/2020 By Allecia Vermillion

Chef Whereabouts

Chef Jason Stratton Lands in the Kitchen at Standard Brewing

One of Seattle's most impressive chefs embraces "grandma food" at the Central District brewpub.

12/15/2020 By Allecia Vermillion

Bring on 2021

New Year's Eve in Seattle: Takeout Edition

Because it's a bad idea to drink all that champagne on an empty stomach.

12/14/2020 By Seattle Met Staff

WHAT A YEAR

Hail, Brave New Seattle Restaurants of 2020

These restaurants met the moment with trippy bar breakfasts, socially distanced fine dining, and a limited-edition crab roll.

12/10/2020 By Allecia Vermillion Photography by Amber Fouts

Field Notes

Tyger Tyger Brings Big Sichuan Flavors to Seattle Center

The new Sichuan-inspired restaurant burns bright—and not just as a hockey hangout.

12/10/2020 By Allecia Vermillion Photography by Amber Fouts

Field (and Stream) Notes

Fremont's Local Tide Does Way More Than That Crab Roll

But, you guys...that crab roll.

12/08/2020 By Allecia Vermillion Photography by Amber Fouts

Home (Yet Again) for the Holidays

Where to Order Christmas Meals for Takeout in Seattle

Your dreams of eating prime rib whilst wearing sweatpants just might come true this year.

12/04/2020 By Allecia Vermillion

Central District Neighborhood Guide

Where to Eat (and Drink) in the Central District

A variety that reflects the neighborhood’s history.

12/02/2020 By Allecia Vermillion and Seattle Met Staff Photography by Amber Fouts

Eat & Drink