Washington Bucket List

What you must do, see, learn, taste, and hear in Washington before you die. Plus: Seattle’s own Sherlock Holmes, super supermarkets, perfect pastries, and top medical providers.

In this issue:

Arts & Culture

Poetic

Two Poems by Abi Pollokoff

The latest in Seattle Met’s poetry series.

07/22/2025 By Abi Pollokoff

Death By Air

Why Have We Had So Many Serial Killers Here?

A new book connects two ugly chapters of Washington’s history.

06/10/2025 By Eric Olson

Know Your Place

You Can Trace a Century of Seattle History Through the Henry Art Gallery

A railroad tycoon with a fondness for landscape paintings built Washington’s first public art museum in 1927.

05/13/2025 By Meg van Huygen

Eat & Drink

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

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

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

Personal Shopper

Inside the Life of an Instacart Shopper

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

09/11/2025 By Eric Nusbaum

Shell Games

Ekone’s Smoked Scallops Kick the Can to the Curb

Forget selling seashells by the shore. Start buying these bivalves by the bag.

07/24/2025 By Naomi Tomky

Crumb Deal

The Best Pastries for When You Deserve a Little Treat

These baked goods are worth the dough.

07/14/2025 By Naomi Tomky Photography by Amber Fouts

Dip Dive

The Best Local Salsas for Dipping Chips and Topping Tacos

Green means go, red means WHOA!

06/26/2025 By Naomi Tomky

Herban Agriculture

The Basement Herb Farm Growing Tastes of Home

Hanging Gardens supplies top restaurants with the herbs chefs dream of.

05/28/2025 By Naomi Tomky

Smoke Show

Outsider BBQ Brings Its Brisket Inside

A Turkish pitmaster proves that Texas is a state of mind—and meat.

05/21/2025 By Naomi Tomky

Health & Wellness

Best of the City

Top Doctors 2025

Our annual list of the best health care professionals in the region.

09/10/2025 By Seattle Met Staff

A Good Infestment

Daria Whettam Makes Lice a Laughing Matter

Greenwood’s Lice Clinic eradicates itchy insects—and the stigma around them.

09/02/2025 By Naomi Tomky

Vax Americana

This UW Doc Was Fired from the CDC’s Vaccine Panel

Helen Chu learned about her termination from an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal.

08/05/2025 By Taylor McKenzie Gerlach

Home & Real Estate

Relative Style

Property Watch: Authentic Modern Home from the Canlis Architect

Seattle architect Roland Terry’s star rose alongside the famous restaurant he designed in 1950. This North Capitol Hill home predates both.

05/27/2025 By Zoe Sayler

News & City Life

Explainer

How a Bobblehead Is Born

For the Seattle Kraken, a single staffer obsesses over the tiniest details.

09/16/2025 By Eric Nusbaum

True Detective

The True Tale of Seattle's Sherlock Holmes

Luke May was a one-man CSI unit who solved crimes in the city’s most tumultuous era. In 1923, one wild case would take him into a world of murder, astrology, and secret codes.

09/09/2025 By Allison Williams