Amber Fouts is a Seattle-based freelance commercial and editorial photographer. Her work, featured in Food and Wine, Imbibe, The New York Times, Nylon, and The Wall Street Journal, has been described as spirited, narrative, and genuine. When she’s not chasing light, you can find her gardening or making a mean cocktail.

Seattle Dining Guide

The Best New Restaurants of 2022

New faces change the game, while veteran chefs embrace new directions.

10/12/2022 By Allecia Vermillion

Fall Wine

Washington Wine Levels Up

An escape to wine country never looked so good.

10/10/2022 By Sean P. Sullivan, Allecia Vermillion, and Allison Williams Photography by Brooke Fitts and Amber Fouts

Field Notes

Your First West Seattle Bridge Crossing Should Involve This Pizza

An underappreciated tavern pie steals the show at West Seattle’s new deep-dish emporium.

09/23/2022 By Allecia Vermillion

SEATTLE STYLE

25 Essential Seattle Shops

From midcentury furniture to made-in-the-rain coats, these are the local shops everyone should know about.

09/22/2022 By Seattle Met Staff and Zoe Sayler

Chef’s Day Off

Recipe: Liz Kenyon’s Weekly Turmeric Soup

The Manolin and Rupee Bar chef heats up her batch meal prep with lessons, and flavors, from Myanmar.

09/19/2022 By Allecia Vermillion

Review

The Butcher, the Baker, the Cheeseburger Maker

Beast and Cleaver hides a destination restaurant behind a (really good) butcher counter.

09/13/2022 By Allecia Vermillion

Feature

Proofing the Pastry Project

Even before our current restaurant worker shortage, Seattle’s needed more pastry cooks. Two women built a free training program in Pioneer Square; the experiment doesn’t end there.

08/29/2022 By Allecia Vermillion Photography by Amber Fouts

Aloha, Fries

Columbia City Favorite Super Six Is Closing

The automotively inclined all-day cafe will soon become a Marination outpost.

08/23/2022 By Allecia Vermillion

Field Notes

At Kricket Club, Nostalgic Indian Food Gets Fancy

Preeti Agarwal's follow-up restaurant in Ravenna unstacks an upscale take on dishes from across the subcontinent.

08/15/2022 By Allecia Vermillion

THE LITTLE THINGS

14 Boutiques for the Fashionable PNW Child

Tiny clothes are just cuter. At these local shops, that’s especially true.

08/05/2022 By Zoe Sayler and Seattle Met Staff

Self-Aggrandizement

Nosh Pit Is Back

Seattle Met's restaurant-themed newsletter starts July 26.

07/13/2022 By Allecia Vermillion

Nooooooooo

A World without Zippy's Giant Burgers Is Imminent

The White Center burger shop will close this weekend.

07/07/2022 By Allecia Vermillion

Shopping List

A Guide to Seattle’s Best Butcher Shops and Meat Markets

Tucked away in Pike Place Market, or existing purely online, these local purveyors make buying a steak a personalized experience.

06/30/2022 By Allecia Vermillion and Seattle Met Staff

Seattle Dining Guide

The Best Burgers in Seattle

Hold the gimmicks.

06/28/2022 By Allecia Vermillion

Seattle Dining Guide

Bone Up on Seattle’s Best Barbecue

Warmer weather calls for meat, smoked low and slow.

06/07/2022 By Allecia Vermillion Photography by Amber Fouts

Seattle Dining Guide

The Best Italian Food in Seattle

Way more than pasta. (But also a ton of pasta.)

05/18/2022 By Allecia Vermillion and Seattle Met Staff

Review

When Tomo Broke the Internet

Brady Ishiwata Williams’s new spot in White Center defies description and draws a crowd.

05/16/2022 By Allecia Vermillion

XLB Dining Guide

The Best Soup Dumplings in Seattle

Xiao long bao—always worth a trip, but now more able to travel.

04/27/2022 By Allecia Vermillion

Expansion Mode

Detroit-Style Pizza Phenom Moto Plans a Second Location

West Seattle's mind-bending deep-dish pies expand to Belltown, along with self-pouring drinks and other seriously ambitious plans.

04/19/2022 By Allecia Vermillion

Field Notes

One of the Town's Best Steak Houses Isn't a Steak House at All

Beast and Cleaver's weeknight wine bar is really a supreme beef-eating experience.

04/12/2022 By Allecia Vermillion Photography by Amber Fouts