Dining Guide

The Best Restaurants in the Chinatown–International District Right Now

From dim sum to hot pot; Japantown to Little Saigon; and Filipino pastries to late-night noodles.

04/24/2026 By Naomi Tomky and Seattle Met Staff

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

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

Seattle Dining Guide

Seattle's Best Chinese Restaurants

Our favorite spots for noodles, dumplings, dim sum, and hot pot, featuring food from Shanghai to Xinjiang.

12/09/2024 By Hsiao-Ching Chou and Naomi Tomky With Allecia Vermillion

Kent’s State

Wild Cumin’s Menu Is Full of Smoke and Noodles

The area’s first Xinjiang Uyghur restaurant comes with lamb skewers and a storied chef. But also some big questions.

11/25/2024 By Naomi Tomky

Color Wheel

Eat This: Purple Potato Balls at Mr. Dim Sum

A local restaurant has the (custard-filled) balls to take on Southcenter's sea of chain restaurants.

11/08/2024 By Naomi Tomky

Eastside Dining Guide

The Best Restaurants in Bellevue

The haunts. The holes in the wall. The high-rises.

11/05/2024 By Allecia Vermillion and Seattle Met Staff

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

Rainy Day Repast

Eat This: Comforting Noodles at Chiang's Gourmet

The secret to surviving Seattle in fall.

10/04/2024 By Naomi Tomky

Open Sesame

Eat This: Sesame Chicken at Asian Kitchen

The platonic ideal of American Chinese food sits in a Broadview strip mall.

09/20/2024 By Naomi Tomky

Sunken Treasure

China Harbor Closes Its Iconic Westlake Doors

What really went on inside the giant, shiny, black building (good food).

09/16/2024 By Naomi Tomky

Colonel Custard

Eat This: The Portuguese Egg Tarts at So Tasty

The tiny tins at a Chinese fried chicken shop in Bellevue cradle a powerful pastry.

08/30/2024 By Naomi Tomky

Reopening Dispatch

Bellevue's New Din Tai Fung Is Twice as Big as the Original

Xiao long bao for all...now with art installations and washi paper chandeliers.

04/16/2024 By Allecia Vermillion

New Moon

How to Celebrate the 2024 Lunar New Year

Usher in the Year of the Dragon with good eats and festivities.

01/30/2024 By Seattle Met Staff

XLB Dining Guide

The Best Soup Dumplings in Seattle

Xiao long bao—always worth a trip, but now more able to travel.

04/27/2022 By Allecia Vermillion

Coming Soon

The Plenty of Clouds Owners Will Open Noodle/Bar

A neighborly spot in South Lake Union will serve housemade strands fashioned from Washington wheat.

02/17/2022 By Allecia Vermillion

border bound

Canada's Greatest Chinese Food Is at the Mall

In Richmond, just south of Vancouver, authentic Chinese fare flourishes in the most casual of venues: the food court. Plus a new way to eat like a local and a sparkling new hotel.

11/09/2021 By Allison Williams

Cookbook Review

Vegetarian Chinese Soul Food Presents an Easy, Compelling Route to Plant-Based Cooking

Local writer Hsiao-Ching Chou’s new cookbook is an exercise in exceptional approachability.

01/19/2021 By Stefan Milne

Field Notes

Tyger Tyger Brings Big Sichuan Flavors to Seattle Center

The new Sichuan-inspired restaurant burns bright—and not just as a hockey hangout.

12/10/2020 By Allecia Vermillion Photography by Amber Fouts

Noodle News

How Coronavirus Hurts a Local Chinese Restaurant

Xi'an Noodles is just one example of how reduced contact and misconceptions have led to revenue losses.

03/11/2020 By Marisa Comeau-Kerege