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

Friday Feed

Could Vito's Return? Who Eats at the Space Needle? And More Food News

Plus new locations for Café Sabah, In Pizza We Crust, and Shug's Soda Fountain.

09/19/2025 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

Friday Feed

Eden Hill Chef's Next Move, Queen City's Royal Resurrection, and More Food News

Happy Crab opened on Shilshole and Seattle is getting its first Burundian restaurant.

09/12/2025 By Naomi Tomky

The Fault in Their Stars

Seattle Doesn’t Need the Michelin Guide

Seattle's lack of Michelin stars is a good thing, actually.

09/08/2025 By Naomi Tomky

Spice Route

Tacoma’s Grann Serves a Smoking Mix of Barbecue and Indian Food

The ambitious fusion of Indian cuisine and soul food makes a compelling, if imperfect, case for dinner down south.

09/08/2025 By Naomi Tomky

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

Air Fare

Eat This: Empanadas at the Airport

Neighborhood Bubble Tea & Coffee adds a little color to SeaTac’s Terminal D.

08/29/2025 By Naomi Tomky

Déjà Food

The Seattle Restaurants Giving Old Chains New Life

I feel like we’ve been here before.

08/27/2025 By Naomi Tomky

Fond Farewell

Groundbreaking Syrian Restaurant Mamnoon to Close in September

After 13 years of unwavering commitment to Middle Eastern cuisine on Capitol Hill, the oven will bake its last flatbread.

08/25/2025 By Naomi Tomky

Friday Feed

Phinney Ridge’s Restaurant Renaissance and More Food News

Roy Southern Thai, Salad Party, and Grillbird are all open, with Fortuna Bottega on the way.

08/22/2025 By Naomi Tomky

Holy Pepperoni

Sacro Bosco Is Not a Pizza Restaurant. Thank God.

Temple Pastries’ sibling serves beauty and a feast.

08/20/2025 By Naomi Tomky

Friday Feed

Gao Lhao, Kin Len's Noodle Sibling Opens, and More Food News

Two cafés are coming to King Street and Queen Anne's Salt & Straw is scooping soon.

08/15/2025 By Naomi Tomky

She’s Got Big Bowls

She Sells Xiao Long Bao by the Seashore

With Happy Crab on Shilshole, Lily Wu’s unflagging ambition brings Chinese cuisine and so much more to one of the city’s premier restaurant spaces.

08/12/2025 By Naomi Tomky

Friday Feed

Stateside Closes, Tomo's Future Sibling Goes Underground, and More Food News

Mojito is on the move and a restaurateur-turned-novelist turns restaurateur again.

08/08/2025 By Naomi Tomky

Friday Feed

Varsity Benched, Little Red Hen Quieted, and More Food News

Middle Eastern cafés come in hot this week.

08/01/2025 By Naomi Tomky