Cart Blanche

Seattle’s Best Independent Grocery Stores

If they don’t have it, you don’t need it.

09/18/2025 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

Fancy Feast

These Tasting Menus for $100 or Less Are Cause for Celebration

Chefs show off their skills with these multicourse meals that keep prices (almost) in the double digits.

01/06/2025 By Naomi Tomky

Eastside Dining Guide

The Best Restaurants in Kirkland

New and old. Upscale and casual. Lake views and mall views.

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

Next Chapters

Cafe Juanita's Chef de Cuisine Makes a Big Move to Cafe Lago

Lauren Thompson is evolving Carla Leonardi's classic Italian restaurant. But not too much.

05/28/2024 By Allecia Vermillion

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

Black History, Black Chefs

La Spiga's Sabrina Tinsley on Making Pasta and Holding Space

In her own words: an Alaska-born powerhouse of Italian cooking.

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

Yes, Chef

The Bear's Culinary Producer Plans a Whidbey Island Dinner Series

Courtney Storer, the woman behind the food in FX's restaurant-centric show, will do a four-day residency (with plenty of Italian fare) at the Captain Whidbey inn.

12/30/2022 By Sophia Struna

Seattle Dining Guide

The Best Italian Food in Seattle

Way more than pasta. (But also a ton of pasta.)

05/18/2022 By Allecia Vermillion and Seattle Met Staff

Canadian Feast

Vancouver Does Next-Level Italian Dining

Venetian small plates enliven the ground floor of an already swinging hotel.

11/09/2021 By Allison Williams

Pasta Vision

Jason Stratton Is the New Chef at Mezzanotte

One of the town's most memorable practitioners of Italian food will cook it once again, in a tucked-away Georgetown dining room.

03/09/2021 By Allecia Vermillion

Opening Dispatch

Carrello Opens Today and Its Carts Will Wheel Food Directly to Your Table

The team behind Altura has set up its new Italian restaurant on Capitol Hill in the former Poppy space.

10/03/2019 By Rosin Saez

Critic's Picks

What We're Eating Now June 2019

This month's favorites: Korean fried chicken, halal Mexican food, and butter mochi waffles worth braving the brunch crowds.

05/29/2019 By Seattle Met Staff

Review

At Willmott’s Ghost, Renee Erickson Brings Square Pizza to the Spheres

The Italian menu inside one of Seattle's most stunning dining rooms substitutes Roman-style pizza for traditional pasta dishes. And you know what—it works pretty well.

04/23/2019 By Allecia Vermillion

Sweet & Sour News

Passing the Torch: Chef Maria Hines Will Sell Agrodolce

Current executive chef Thomas Litrenta will take the reins at the Italian restaurant in Fremont .

03/11/2019 By Philip Kiefer

Review

The Meat Goes on at the New Salumi

How new owners and a new space recast Seattle’s mainstay Italian deli.

02/26/2019 By Allecia Vermillion

Pizza. Pasta. Paradise.

18 Life-Giving Seattle Italian Restaurants

From homey snap pea carbonara to wood-fired pizza, is there a better cure for a dark and dreary November than Italian food?

11/19/2018 By Nosh Pit Staff

Dining Guide

16 Restaurants That Define Seattle Dining

Our food scene is equal parts high-end and handheld. In a town rife with incredible meals, these are the pizza slices, tasting menus, and indispensable favorites to check off your list, stat.

09/21/2018 By Seattle Met Staff

Food & Drink

Nosh Pit Weekly Planner September 5–11

The week in which: Italian Americans throw a festa in Georgetown, Trove turns four years old, and Resistencia Coffee hosts a Cambodian popup.

09/05/2018 By Grace Madigan

Pasta Priorities

Brian Clevenger's GH Pasta Co. to Debut in the Denny Regrade

Lay out the linguine and pour on the parmesan, because the Denny Regrade is about to be blessed with a lunchtime pasta power hour.

08/29/2018 By Christina Ausley Edited by Rosin Saez