Senior Writer

Seattle native Kathryn Robinson, award-winning restaurant critic and senior writer at Seattle Met, has been anonymously reviewing restaurants for over 30 years—first as editor of the Best Places guidebook series, then as staff critic at Seattle Weekly and contributing critic at The Seattle Times and Seattle magazine.

Midcareer she spent a year-long sabbatical studying comparative religion as a Knight Fellow at Stanford University where she had been an undergrad 10 years earlier, gaining a knowledge base she now calls upon for her monthly “Back Fence” column on our collective urban existence and the meaning it holds for our personal lives. In her off hours she is a partner and a parent—which means she has no off hours.

West Seattle

Early-Week Specials at Fresh Bistro

Steak and salmon and seafood, oh my.

10/11/2010 By Kathryn Robinson

Celebrations

Cafe Lago Turns 20

And man does that give me a crisis.

10/06/2010 By Kathryn Robinson

Takes One Minute

Farestart has Helped a Lot of Homeless People

Now you can help Farestart.

10/04/2010 By Kathryn Robinson

Dept of It's About Time

Twirl opens on Queen Anne

A healthy cafe for kids and their servants. I mean parents.

09/29/2010 By Kathryn Robinson

Cookies

Seattle, Meet Cookie Box

One of my favorite pastry chefs in town is baking ’em.

09/28/2010 By Kathryn Robinson

This weekend

Artisan Food Festival at Pike Place Market

Unbelievably, it’s the first annual. And the price is right.

09/22/2010 By Kathryn Robinson

Dept. of Swirling Rumors

Lombardi’s Closing

Ballard ristorante to be replaced by gastropub. Guess which one?

09/20/2010 By Kathryn Robinson

Party

Forecast for Tomorrow: Burgers with 100% Chance of Beer

Whole Foods turns 30 and you’re invited to hoist one in its honor.

09/17/2010 By Kathryn Robinson

Where to Eat Now

East of Eatin'

09/16/2010 By Kathryn Robinson

Reserve oily

Taste Restaurant Holds Olive Oil Event

Including dinner, with olive oil cocktails.

09/15/2010 By Kathryn Robinson

Article

I Wanna Inhale

The marijuana initiative may have gone up in smoke…but its whiff lingers on.

09/15/2010 By Kathryn Robinson

Article

Makeover on Melrose

What Matt Dillon learned on the way to the table.

09/15/2010 By Kathryn Robinson

Introducing

A Match Made in Ballard

09/14/2010 By Kathryn Robinson

Fried!

Spud Fish ‘n’ Chips Turns 75

The Seattle fried-food legend invites you to celebrate with them.

09/13/2010 By Kathryn Robinson

Good Cause

Bluwater Bistro Reinvents the Duck Dodge…in Rubber

Benefits memorial fund for slain officer Timothy Brenton

09/08/2010 By Kathryn Robinson

Dough, Crust, Sugar, Fruit

High 5 Pie Goes All Retail On Us

Getcher Flipsides and Piepops at Trace Lofts, just in time for the holidays.

09/01/2010 By Kathryn Robinson

Sweet

Fruit Cobblers in Season NOW at Restaurants All Over Town

Four we adore.

08/30/2010 By Kathryn Robinson

New, yet Old

Twisted Cork Reopens

It’s back at the Bellevue Hyatt.

08/25/2010 By Kathryn Robinson

Here piggy piggy piggy

Baconopolis! Returns, Third Year in a Row

It’s all about the exclamation point.

08/23/2010 By Kathryn Robinson

Article

Hot Spot: Elliott Bay Café

08/18/2010 By Kathryn Robinson