outings

Short Summer Day Trips from Seattle

Gardens, parks, and a crabbing adventure via kayak.

07/12/2024 By Allison Williams

Seattle Dining Guide

Special Occasion Restaurants for When You Want to Go Big

Because sometimes life hands you reasons to make a reservation and really blow it out.

10/18/2023 By Allecia Vermillion

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

Capitol Hill Neighborhood Guide

The Best Restaurants on Capitol Hill

An entire city’s worth of great food, crammed into one lively (slightly sprawling) area.

08/27/2021 By Allecia Vermillion and Seattle Met Staff

Critic's Picks

The Best Restaurants On Capitol Hill Right Now

In one of the city’s most prolific dining neighborhoods there’s no shortage of excellent meals.

02/27/2018 By Seattle Met Staff

On The Rocks

Neighborhood in Flux: How Belltown Is Dealing with Its Growing Pains

Wedged between the Space Needle and Pike Place Market, this Seattle neighborhood is a gritty, historic icon of its own. And the community is fighting to keep it that way.

11/20/2017 By Rosin Saez

Best of the City

Seattle's 100 Very Best Restaurants

Truth is, Seattle has easily twice this number of genuinely extraordinary restaurants. But here, including this year’s new standouts, are the most vivid, gracious, straight-up incredible destinations in town.

10/17/2016 By Kathryn Robinson and Allecia Vermillion

Critic's Notebook

What Is Northwest Cuisine, Anyway?

The answer at last.

02/01/2016 By Kathryn Robinson

Eastern Exposure

The Influence of Asian Cuisines on Seattle Chefs Can't Be Overstated

The singularities of Asian cuisine—the umami, the funk, the fermentation—have become the vernacular of Seattle dining.

01/29/2016 By Kathryn Robinson

The Restaurant Issue

Jerry Traunfeld Is the 2015 Seattle Chef of the Year

At his Szechuan restaurant, Lionhead, Traunfeld’s greatest achievement is taking Traunfeld out of the food.

10/28/2015 By Kathryn Robinson

30 Perfect Day Trips

Old & Important

Bask in greenery, fight old battles, and set sail at a naval shipyard

05/05/2015

Critic's Picks

Downtown Restaurants to Stop While You Shop

Because all that holiday shopping makes you hungry.

12/01/2014 By Kathryn Robinson

Critic's Picks

10 Classic Seattle Restaurants

10 enduring greats that should never fall off the radar.

11/03/2014 By Seattle Met Staff

Get Out of Town

30 Perfect Day Trips

Get out of town with a culinary adventure, a scenic drive, or one very unusual form of skydiving—all within 90 minutes of Seattle.

09/25/2014 By Allison Williams With Lisa Han, Carey Rose, Abby Tracy, and Matt Pitchford

Critic's Picks

Seasonal Restaurants for Harvest Time

September is the month to dine at these microseasonal gems.

09/01/2014

Critic's Notebook

A Critic’s Guide to Seattle Restaurant Week 2014

How are you going to pick which restaurant deal to go for?

04/07/2014 By Kathryn Robinson

Serious Bar

Serious Pie and Serious Biscuit Expand in South Lake Union

Tom Douglas's house of pizza and biscuits will add a streetside dining room, complete with bar.

10/09/2013 By Allecia Vermillion

Road Trips

Three Food Events Absolutely Worth a Drive

Mark your calendars, keep an eye on ticket sales, and make plans to head north...or south this summer.

03/27/2013 By Allecia Vermillion

Critic's Notebook

Scott Carsberg Dishes on Bisato

In his own words, Seattle’s inscrutable culinary genius reveals his favorite chefs, his own best dishes, the question he asks every prospective waiter…and why the finest cooks in his kitchen were women.

10/15/2012 By Kathryn Robinson

Closings

Bisato Will Close October 14

Scott Carsberg won a James Beard award on this corner in Belltown; next month the irascible chef bows out after 19 years.

09/24/2012 By Allecia Vermillion