Best Italian Food

The Seattle Italian Dining Matrix

A handy let's-go-out-for-Italian reference guide, from modern interpretations to Grandma's cannelloni.

01/26/2017 By Allecia Vermillion and Rosin Saez

Inspiration Abroad

Italy Has a Unique Sway Over American Chefs

Here, three of our most prominent restaurateurs talk about how our favorite boot-shaped peninsula influenced their cooking.

01/26/2017 By Rosin Saez

Best Italian Food

Carmine Smeraldo’s Rising Sons

After the local legend behind Il Terrazzo Carmine passed away, his young offspring suddenly shouldered the city’s most luxurious legacy of Italian dining.

01/26/2017 By Darren Davis

2,000 Pounds of Cure

Salumi Preserves Pork, Yes—But Also Italian Tradition

"Quality control and preserving tradition are two different ways of saying the same thing."

01/26/2017 By Allecia Vermillion

Best Italian Food

Mike Easton's Guide to Pasta

The chef behind Pioneer Square pasta temple Il Corvo breaks pasta into four categories (above)—handmade, extruded, laminated, and stuffed.

01/26/2017 By Allecia Vermillion Photography by Sara Marie D’Eugenio

Best Italian Food

Meet Seattle’s Italian Forebears

Italian immigrants (and their offspring) gave our town everything from power dining to world jerky dominance

01/26/2017 By Allecia Vermillion Illustrations by Amanda Mocci

Best Italian Food

Scenes from an Italian Restaurant

A night at Bizzarro Italian Cafe and the unending allure of the neighborhood restaurant.

01/26/2017 By Allecia Vermillion

Best of the City

Seattle's Best Italian Food

It's about way more than pasta.

01/26/2017 By Allecia Vermillion With Rosin Saez Photography by Sarah Flotard and Sara Marie D’Eugenio

Best of the City

The Best New Italian Restaurants in Seattle Right Now

Simple. Seasonal. Grown close by. Italian cooking ethos has an awful lot to do with how we do things in the Northwest—and these restaurants prove it.

01/26/2017 By Allecia Vermillion and Rosin Saez

Fred Hutch

Hutch Award Luncheon

On January 25 more than 800 guests attended Fred Hutch's annual Hutch Award Luncheon held at Safeco Field.

01/26/2017

That Washington

House Delivers Blow to Reproductive Rights with New Measure; DelBene Resists

“This bill is an insult to the millions of women who marched this weekend.”

01/25/2017 By Spencer Ricks

Fun with Listicles

7 Places for Flaky, Buttery Biscuits

Biscuit bakeshops: ideal for indulging in all things smothered with gravy, graced with jam, or piled with protein.

01/25/2017 By Rosin Saez

Food & Drink

Nosh Pit Weekly Planner: January 25–31

The week in which: Li'l Woody's launches chef Rachel Yang's burger, Belgian Fest brews flow at Seattle Center, and CoffeeCon comes to town.

01/25/2017 By Rosin Saez

Top Chefs Come to Taste Washington

With the most impressive celebrity chef lineup to date, this year’s festival gives foodies and Top Chef enthusiasts plenty to be excited about.

01/24/2017

Brisket Dispatch

Wood Shop BBQ Opens in the Central District

The popular barbecue truck now has a place of its own. And plans for breakfast tacos.

01/24/2017 By Allecia Vermillion

#FillYourTank

Style File: 5 Questions with LaEisha Howard

The stylist and motivational speaker shares her personal touch on fashion.

01/24/2017 By Amanda Raschkow

Bang For Your Buck

Cheap Week: January 24–29

SIFF hosts a Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Film Fest encore, Childbirth's punk brings together nasty women, and comedian Harland Williams gets weird in Tacoma.

01/24/2017 By Jane Kidder Edited by Seth Sommerfeld