The Top 49 Places to Eat Near Olympia Coffee Roasters
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Rank 4. Nineveh Assyrian
Assyrian Middle Eastern
Assyrian food is one of the rarer cuisines you'll encounter in the country, and this downtown Olympia restaurant may be among a handful of places serving it anywhere. The siblings behind it dug into their ancestral table, where Persian, Iraqi, and Israeli flavors converge in the same bowl. The brick-and-mortar space runs bright blue and gold, hung with family photos. A food truck handles takeout nearby.
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Rank 5. La Tarasca
Michoacán Mexican
A sign on the door reads "We don't serve chips," which tells you plenty about La Tarasca before you sit down. This family-run Mexican restaurant in Centralia draws its recipes from Michoacán, where the signature move is carnitas, and the mole runs peppery and peanut-forward rather than Oaxacan-sweet. Every tortilla is made from scratch, and the extended family behind the counter treats the room with the kind of warmth that keeps regulars quiet about the place.
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Rank 7. Grann
BBQ-Indian fusion Cajun & Creole
Deep-fried puri shells arrive golf-ball-size and hollow, packed with cool pimento cheese softened by sweet onion jam, and that alone explains why Tacoma's Grann has Seattle making the drive south. The restaurant calls itself Southern BBQ, Creole, and Indian fusion, but the food lands somewhere past hyphenation, like a cuisine that simply grew up that way. Dramatic green walls and a tiger photograph that somehow matches the room give the dining room real personality.
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A firepit on the patio and shared tables set the tone at this lively Asian street-food spot in Tacoma, where the menu pulls from Thai curries to Korean kimchi barbecue without planting a flag in any single tradition. The crispy rice salad with sausage has a following. Cocktails get serious attention, which separates it from the quieter sit-down sibling it spun off from. New owners took over in 2025, and the regulars, having briefly panicked, have since relaxed.
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Wooden A-frames perch over Hood Canal tidal flats on a working fifth-generation oyster farm, which tells you most of what you need to know about the oysters. This is an outdoor seafood spot where bivalves are the reason anyone drives out to Lilliwaup, though the supporting cast of crab cakes and clam dishes holds its own. The Stump Bar pours beer and wine and sells buckets of you-shuck oysters for those who skip the reservation.
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Rank 10. Tomo
American
Brady Williams built his name at Canlis, and Tomo is what happens when a fine-dining chef stops apologizing for also loving a steam burger. The à la carte menu lands somewhere between Japanese comfort food and upscale American, with kakigori towering improbably over its bowl for dessert. The room runs dark and stylish, and the wine list is adventurous enough that the four-glass, diner-paced flight exists as a sensible entry point.
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Rank 11. Barrracuda
Contemporary Pizza
The dough at this contemporary Messina pizzeria goes through a long fermentation that gives each base a noticeably different aroma from the standard Neapolitan crowd. The "Specials" menu is where the kitchen makes its argument, and the fried appetizers lean artisanal rather than afterthought. The wine list tilts local. Three r's in the name, which either signals confidence or a typo that stuck, and the room seems to lean toward the former.
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Rank 12. Ciudad
Mediterranean
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A sourdough pizza shop in a coal-mining hamlet so small that downtown is basically a dive bar, a coffee shop, and this place. The chef makes only so much crust each day, so on summer weekends the kitchen sells out within 90 minutes of opening, and the line forms knowing full well it might not matter. A brussels sprouts and bacon pie has been on the menu since day one and shows no signs of leaving.
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Rank 15. The Crawfish Hut
Seafood Cajun & Creole
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Rank 17. Moonshot Coffee
Coffee
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Rank 18. Delish Ethiopian Cuisine
Ethiopian
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Rank 19. Loretta's Northwesterner
American
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Rank 20. il nido
Tuscan
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Rank 21. Driftwood
Northwest New American
The chef sources so locally he's reportedly knocked on strangers' doors to ask about their gardens, and his mom's plot is in regular rotation. The result is a Northwest New American restaurant on Alki Beach where essentially everything on the plate comes from Washington state, no California citrus allowed. The bar runs the same way and is worth the trip on its own, and the desserts have drawn their own devoted following.
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Rank 22. Marination Mai Kai
Fusion Hawaiian
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Rank 23. Mezzanotte
Northern Italian
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Rank 25. Current Coffee
Coffee
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Rank 26. La Garrafita Antojitos
Mexican
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Rank 27. Cafe Red
Vegetarian Coffee Shop
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Rank 28. Billiard Hoang
Vietnamese
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Rank 30. Soufend Cafe & Eatery
Vietnamese
Bún bò Huế arrives as tacos here, which tells you everything about the approach. This Vietnamese cafe in South Seattle pairs deep-cut dishes like stir-fried snails in coconut sauce with banana cookie crumble matcha lattes, and somehow neither feels out of place. The bánh xèo comes gasp-inducingly large on a woven basket ringed with herbs. Seattle Met named it one of Seattle's best new restaurants in 2025.
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Rank 33. Arthur's
New American
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Rank 34. Chè Dessert Lounge
Filipino Dessert
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Rank 38. Stevie’s Famous
New York-style Pizza
Arcade games and sticker vending machines line the walls of this East Coast-style slice joint in Olde Burien, which is exactly the vibe the team behind Fremont's Lupo was going for. The crust is the work of dough obsessives, foldable and crisp in the New York tradition. Side salads and housemade ice cream are better than the paper plates and plastic tumblers would suggest, but nobody seems to mind.
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Rank 39. Stevie's Famous
Pizza
Arcade games and sticker vending machines frame the room at this slice joint in the Beacon Hill area, where the team behind Fremont's Lupo traded sourdough pies for New York-style foldable slices. The crust is the work of serious dough people, and the housemade ice cream could survive a white-tablecloth setting but seems happier alongside paper plates and plastic tumblers. Salads, too, punch above the room's decor.
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Rank 40. Wild Cumin
Xinjiang Chinese
A live-coal grill, the kind you'd see on a street corner in Xinjiang, sits in the kitchen of this Uyghur restaurant tucked into a Kent strip mall. The lamb skewers come off it cumin-crusted and properly smoky, the sort of thing that makes a food writer ask to see the back of the house. The menu covers the northwest Chinese canon: hand-pulled noodles, flatbreads, big plates of spiced meat.
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Rank 47. Taco Time
Mexican
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