Shifts & Shakeups

This Week in Restaurant News: Jason Stratton's Departure and a Self-Serve Bar

Your Friday dispatch from Seattle Met's food team.

Handoffs

Lionhead's New Owners Are Putting Their Own Spin on the Capitol Hill Restaurant

Jerry Traunfeld has passed the culinary torch—which is likely a whisk or an actual flame torch—to chef Garrett Doherty and Benjamin Chew.

10/25/2019 By Rosin Saez

Seattle Met Magazine

On Sunday, May 1, the second annual Country Brunch welcomed over 400 guests for a brunch bonanza and bloody mary smackdown.

05/02/2016

Critic's Notebook

(And why’d he switch things up so dramatically?)

The Restaurant Issue

At his Szechuan restaurant, Lionhead, Traunfeld’s greatest achievement is taking Traunfeld out of the food.

Pour

At two high-profile new restaurants, veteran bartenders pour drinks that don’t fight with the food.

Shifts and Shakeups

Jerry Traunfeld opens a Szechuan restaurant, Washington gains its first cooperative brewery, and La Bodega changes things up.

Exciting Arrivals

The chef's new restaurant offers Szechuan flavors...and no tipping.