Best New Restaurants 2025

Little Beast Is Seattle Met’s Restaurant of the Year

At his bold English pub, Kevin Smith dares to be butcher, baker, and money-maker.

10/13/2025 By Naomi Tomky Photography by Amber Fouts

Dining Guide

Best New Restaurants 2023

Seattle's dining landscape defies easy themes—and that's a good thing.

11/08/2023

Best New Restaurants 2022

MariPili Tapas Bar Is Our Restaurant of the Year

In a storied space on Capitol Hill, Grayson Corrales does her abuela proud.

11/30/2022 By Allecia Vermillion

Best New Restaurants 2021

Communion: Our Restaurant of the Year

Chef Kristi Brown brings Seattle together—and expands its definition of soul food.

12/02/2021 By Allecia Vermillion Photography by Amber Fouts

There in a Jif

Musang Is Seattle Met's Restaurant of the Year

Melissa Miranda’s stunning Filipino food is only part of the equation.

11/30/2020 By Allecia Vermillion Photography by Amber Fouts

Cover Story

The Great Seattle Restaurant Rush of 2019

The thrill of discovery. A surge of great new spots.

10/22/2019 By Rosin Saez and Allecia Vermillion

Awards & Accolades

Homer Is Seattle Met's 2019 Restaurant of the Year

In a warm Beacon Hill dining room, Logan Cox makes the unfamiliar craveable, and the familiar feel like something new entirely.

10/07/2019 By Allecia Vermillion

Meal Reveals

Seattle Met's Secret Supper 2019 Is On

My favorite dining tradition returns October 7.

09/18/2019 By Allecia Vermillion

Drumroll Please

And Seattle Met's 2018 Restaurant of the Year Is...

...a tiny noodle haunt in Fremont serving big, elegant flavors.

10/23/2018 By Rosin Saez

Art & Craft

Kamonegi Is Seattle Met's Restaurant of the Year

Mutsuko Soma excels at so much more than soba.

10/23/2018 By Allecia Vermillion

Meal Reveals

Seattle Met's Secret Supper Is Back

Be the first to learn the identity of our 2018 Restaurant of the Year—then go eat there, that very night.

10/16/2018 By Allecia Vermillion

Drumroll Please

And Seattle Met's 2017 Restaurant of the Year Is...

...the whole package. Great food, superb service, and a beautiful room.

08/11/2017 By Allecia Vermillion

Awards and Accolades

The 2017 Restaurant of the Year Is...FlintCreek Cattle Co.

In a moment where casual, familiar dining prevails, one chef transforms bison, boar shoulder, and venison into polished plates, served with easygoing grace. All this—plus a devastatingly stylish dining room—await at FlintCreek Cattle Co.

08/11/2017 By Allecia Vermillion

Critic's Notebook

And Seattle Met's 2016 Restaurant of the Year Is…

(Drumroll, please.)

10/13/2016 By Kathryn Robinson

Best Restaurants 2016

Seattle Met’s Restaurant of the Year: Bateau

Renee Erickson’s latest is also her greatest—for reasons you can taste but may not always see.

10/13/2016 By Kathryn Robinson

Critic's Notebook

Surprise Surprise: Time for the Fourth Annual Seattle Met Secret Supper

Yep, we’ve picked the Restaurant of the Year. Now we want to meet you there for dinner.

09/15/2016 By Kathryn Robinson

Campari

Slide Show: Secret Supper

The secret is out! On October 22, nearly 150 guests came together at the third annual Secret Supper.

10/23/2015

Critic's Notebook

And the Seattle Met 2015 Restaurant of the Year Is…

…a place where 148 lucky diners ate very, very well last night.

10/23/2015 By Kathryn Robinson