Awards & Accolades

Seattle Goes Home Empty-Handed from 2025 James Beard Awards

If you want to taste this year's award winners, you'll have to travel.

06/16/2025 By Naomi Tomky

Awards & Accolades

Seattle Restaurants and Chefs Nearly Shut Out in 2025 James Beard Nominations

Only a few local names snuck into the national categories.

04/02/2025 By Naomi Tomky

Bun-Based Collabs

And So Begins Lil Woody's Burger Month

This year's chef lineup includes ascendant faces, timeless talent, and one unconventional pick (not just because he made a spicy fried chicken sandwich).

03/01/2022 By Allecia Vermillion

Uni Fixation

'Tis the Season—For a Best Bites of 2019 List

It was a very good year...for carbs.

12/20/2019 By Allecia Vermillion

Local Eats

Marcus Samuelsson’s No Passport Required Explores Seattle’s Filipino Food Community

The New York chef hangs out with the people behind Oriental Mart, Hood Famous Bakeshop, Archipelago, and others in the second season’s first episode.

12/11/2019 By Stefan Milne

In Brief

A Look at Our Seattle Restaurant Reviews in 2019 (So Far)

Nduja-spiked "cheesy bread," a bread course of heirloom wheat pandesal, eel wrapped in a tamago ribbon—yeah, you need to get these on your dining bucket list. Stat.

11/18/2019 By Seattle Met Staff Edited by Annika Lindburg

Cover Story

The Great Seattle Restaurant Rush of 2019

The thrill of discovery. A surge of great new spots.

10/22/2019 By Rosin Saez and Allecia Vermillion

Hit List

These Are Seattle's Best New Restaurants of 2019

This was a year of variety, from Filipino tasting menus to the pizza doppelganger that's Georgia's national dish.

10/22/2019 By Allecia Vermillion and Rosin Saez

Fun With Listicles

Hard-to-Snag Seats at These Seattle Restaurants Are Well Worth the Wait

From intimate chef's counters to culinary hot spots.

10/21/2019 By Seattle Met Staff Edited by Courtney Cummings

Dear Ludi's

Love Letters to Ludi's, the Filipino Diner Closing This Week

Chefs-slash-loyal-fans of the downtown diner that's set to shutter on August 31 say farewell to the garlic fried rice breakfast combos. For now.

08/26/2019 By Rosin Saez

Critic's Picks

The Best Restaurants in the South End Right Now

Next-level deep dish, juicy rotisserie chicken, and pillowy pita: Seattle’s southerly neighborhoods harbor long-standing laid-back restaurants and ambitious newcomers alike.

05/29/2019 Edited by Jaime Archer

Fun with Listicles

9 Spots to Explore Seattle's Burgeoning Filipino Scene

A new wave of Filipino Americans are injecting traditional flavors into fine dining, Hawaiian dishes, and dessert.

04/01/2019 By Nosh Pit Staff

Opening Dispatch

Archipelago’s Progressive Filipino American Cuisine Debuts December 1

The spirit of the Philippines fashioned through Pacific Northwest ingredients.

11/29/2018 By Rosin Saez

PI Meets PNW

Progressive Filipino American Restaurant Comes to Hillman City

Archipelago is an ode to Aaron Verzosa and Amber Manuguid's heritage, to be sure, but the couple filters flavors of the Philippines through the Pacific Northwest, where they grew up.

04/02/2018 By Rosin Saez