Prime Grocery

Property Watch: A Historical Central District Shop, Reimagined

This former neighborhood grocery store gives new meaning to the words ‘housing market.’

12/31/2025 By Zoe Sayler

In Memoriam

Remembering Ms. Helen Coleman, Queen of Seattle Soul Food

The storied Central District chef and restaurateur leaves behind a legacy of oxtails and sweet potato pie.

12/10/2025 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

This Week’s Seattle Food News Is Full of New Restaurants

Where to get your world-famous cebiche, waffle sammies, and jojos.

10/18/2024 By Naomi Tomky

Black History Through Food

Seattle's Black Chefs and Restaurateurs Have Endless Stories

So we asked five of them to share in their own words.

02/12/2024 By Allecia Vermillion Photography by Jordan Nicholson

Explainer

Historic Times at Garfield High

The first 100 years of the Central District school produced some of our city’s finest figures—and highlighted some of our worst divides.

09/27/2022 By Taylor McKenzie Gerlach

Brew News

Métier Brewing Opens New Central District Taproom

Cofounder Rodney Hines hopes the location becomes a neighborhood destination in more ways than one.

06/21/2022 By Ann Karneus

Sauce Talk

Meet the Central District’s New Hometown Hot Sauce

In the words of founder Joe Norris, Hot Jawn is, “Kind of like a buffalo sauce, but not. Kind of like a Sriracha, but not.”

03/18/2022 By Ann Karneus

Black History Month

Wa Na Wari Has a Vision for the Central District’s Black Future

How a public art project became a center for Black belonging.

02/28/2022 By Malia Alexander

Vintage Glass and Old Brass

Property Watch: A 1904 Foursquare Home Stays True to Style

This historic home has been updated and adapted for modern life—without losing its old-house identity.

11/17/2021 By Sarah Anne Lloyd

Opening Dispatch

4 Great New Bars and Restaurants Open(ed) This Week

Pizza! Banh mi! Enchantment (and cocktails) under the sea!

06/24/2021 By Allecia Vermillion

CENTRAL SOUL

Simply Soulful Heads to the Central District

Jackson and 23rd is about to become a hub for local artists and sweet potato pie.

04/20/2021 By Sophie Grossman

Field Notes

The Glory, and the Cronuts, of Temple Pastries

Some truly impressive, very buttery things are happening inside this new Central District bakeshop.

12/17/2020 By Allecia Vermillion Photography by Amber Fouts

Central District Neighborhood Guide

Where to Eat (and Drink) in the Central District

A variety that reflects the neighborhood’s history.

12/02/2020 By Allecia Vermillion and Seattle Met Staff Photography by Amber Fouts

Opening Dispatch

Communion to Open in the Central District

Kristi Brown and Damon Bomar bring meaningful cocktails and cuisine to the Liberty Bank Building.

11/25/2020 By Allecia Vermillion

Enclaves

Displaced from the Central District

How the lives of two drug kingpins trace a neighborhood’s gentrification and struggle for justice.

11/24/2020 By Levi Pulkkinen

CULTURE FIX

What to Stream in Seattle July 31–August 6

Town Hall hosts a book talk and Dani Tirrell is back with Instagram live conversations.

07/31/2020 By Sam Luikens

CULTURE FIX

What to Stream in Seattle July 17–23

Tasveer Author Meets offers up summer reads while Refill 2020 launches a virtual benefit concert.

07/17/2020 By Sam Luikens

Black Lives Celebrated

Some Ways to Honor Juneteenth in Seattle

Protests and marches join streaming events on the holiday commemorating the end of U.S. slavery.

06/18/2020 By Sam Luikens

QUOTE UNQUOTE

D’Vonne Pickett, Jr., Delivers a New Package Hub in the Central District

“I’ve always been one to blaze my own trail. I just feel like I’m built for it.”

11/26/2019 By Allison Williams