Best Of The City

11 Restaurants with Great Atmospheres

In honor of Valentine’s Day, some dining rooms worthy of an amorous liaison.

02/03/2016 By Kathryn Robinson

Best Restaurants

The Best New Asian Restaurants in Seattle

The 20 dishes that define the region's Asian dining boom.

01/29/2016 By Allecia Vermillion

Critic's Notebook

Seattle Bars with Killer Food

The three best of a very good year.

11/12/2015 By Kathryn Robinson

Critic's Notebook

A Whole New Type of Restaurant Emerges in Seattle

And why it’s happening now.

11/05/2015 By Kathryn Robinson

Critic's Notebook

Okay Frequent Diners: Name Seattle’s Cuisine of the Year

We just did in Seattle Met’s Restaurant Issue. Can you guess?

10/26/2015 By Kathryn Robinson

The Restaurant Issue

Restaurant Trend of the Year: The Asian Remix

The only trend more rampant right now than restaurants opening on Capitol Hill? Menus taking informed liberties with Asian traditions.

10/26/2015 By Kathryn Robinson

The Restaurant Issue

Stateside Is Our 2015 Restaurant of the Year

In a year of impressive newcomers, a subtropically styled dining room on Pike Street delivers the most exuberant experience in town.

10/23/2015 By Kathryn Robinson

Critic's Notebook

How Well Do You Know Your Seattle Restaurants?

A quiz for serious gastronomes

05/07/2015 By Kathryn Robinson

Best Restaurants

35 Essential Seattle Dining Experiences

In no particular order: Seattle Met’s list of dining experiences so exquisite, so iconic, so quintessential to living here—you can’t call yourself a Seattleite and miss ’em.

04/24/2015 By Kathryn Robinson

Critic's Picks

Seattle's Finest Italian Restaurants

Our collection of Seattle's best bets for Italian food

01/05/2015 By Kathryn Robinson

Critic's Notebook

Ten Best Bites of 2014

Seattle tasted pretty good this year. Here are the forkfuls that tasted best.

12/31/2014 By Kathryn Robinson

Critic's Notebook

Best Moments in Seattle Restaurants, 2014

The critic recalls a tasty year

12/24/2014 By Kathryn Robinson

Critic's Notebook

Best New Restaurants of 2014

It’s a surprising group this year, no doubt about it.

11/06/2014 By Kathryn Robinson

Best Restaurants 2014

Best Restaurant of 2014: Loulay

Thierry Rautureau’s three-level showpiece bucks nearly every ascendant trend.

11/03/2014 By Kathryn Robinson

Best Restaurants

Seattle's Best New Restaurants 2014

From buoyant fusion to transcendent bar food, Seattle Met presents 10 newcomers that defined the year in food.

11/03/2014 By Kathryn Robinson

Critic's Notebook

Best Seattle Restaurants for September Dining

Fall means harvest—and you know what harvest means. Our picks for Seattle’s best farm-to-table dining experiences.

09/08/2014 By Kathryn Robinson

Critic's Picks

Seasonal Restaurants for Harvest Time

September is the month to dine at these microseasonal gems.

09/01/2014

Critic's Notebook

Can You Name the 12 Biggest Restaurant Trends of 2013?

Tell you what, I’ll give you two for free.

11/18/2013 By Kathryn Robinson

Critic's Notebook

How I Chose the 50 Top Dishes of 2013

My highly scientific process, unveiled at last.

11/11/2013 By Kathryn Robinson

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Seattle's Best Restaurants

It’s been a tasty year in Seattle restaurants. Here’s where it tasted best.

11/01/2013 By Kathryn Robinson