Supa Fry

Seattle’s Best French Fries

Ketchup on the city’s hottest potatoes.

03/03/2026 By Naomi Tomky

Time-Tested

Seattle’s 50 Best Restaurants

From tasting menus to taco counters, and all points in between.

11/05/2025 By Naomi Tomky and Seattle Met Staff

Hunger Gains

Seattle’s Best New Restaurants

This year’s top spots made the best of tough times by getting creative, obsessive, or both.

10/20/2025 By Naomi Tomky Photography by Amber Fouts

Hunger Gains

Seattle’s Best New Restaurants

This year’s top spots made the best of tough times by getting creative, obsessive, or both.

10/20/2025 By Naomi Tomky Photography by Amber Fouts

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

Farewell, 2024

The 11 Best Things I Ate This Year

In case you need a to-do list for January.

12/30/2024 By Naomi Tomky

Best New Restaurants 2024

Atoma Is Seattle Met’s Restaurant of the Year

Hoist a tiny cocktail in honor of Johnny and Sarah Courtney’s stunning food and house party vibes.

10/09/2024 By Allecia Vermillion

Hunger Gains

Seattle’s Best New Restaurants of 2024

The year’s top rookies brought smiles to our faces with big murals, small cocktails, and creative cooking.

10/08/2024 By Naomi Tomky and Allecia Vermillion

Farewell, 2023

The 16 Best Things I Ate This Year

And only two of them were pizza.

12/27/2023 By Allecia Vermillion

Farewell, 2022

The 10 Best Things I Ate This Year

Through thick and thin (pizza crusts), from stuffed tofu to flower-shaped croissants.

12/26/2022 By Allecia Vermillion

Best New Restaurants

A Northwest Seafood Restaurant That Goes Hard

Surely Seattle has fish-centric restaurants on every corner, right? Hardly, but Brendan McGill’s new Seabird adds an ambitious one to the mix.

11/28/2022 By Allecia Vermillion

Seattle Dining Guide

The Best New Restaurants of 2022

New faces change the game, while veteran chefs embrace new directions.

10/12/2022 By Allecia Vermillion

Another Weird Year in Review

The Best Things I Ate This Year

2021 was a very good year…for carbs.

12/31/2021 By Allecia Vermillion

Critic's Notebook

How to Choose the 100 Best Restaurants in Seattle

In 5 easy steps.

10/17/2016 By Kathryn Robinson