The Top 100 Restaurants Near Hannyatou
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Rank 1. Kamonegi
Japanese
- James Beard Awards 2022 · Nominee · Best Chef: Northwest and Pacific · Mutsuko Soma
- Bon Appétit 2018 · America's Best New Restaurants
- Eater 2018 · The Best New Restaurants in America
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Rank 2. Canlis
Northwest
Canlis is the kind of fine dining institution that's been around forever, perched on a cliff above Queen Anne Hill with views that make the prix fixe feel almost justified. The room fills with anniversaries, milestone birthdays, and people who clearly ironed their shirts for this. Northwest ingredients anchor the menu, the wine program has a James Beard win behind it, and the Canlis salad gets its own tableside moment.
- AAA Four Diamonds
- Food & Wine 2023 · Best New Chefs · Aisha Ibrahim
- Food & Wine 2025 · The Top 15 US Restaurants
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Rank 3. Atoma
Pacific Northwestern
Fine dining in a converted Craftsman house in Wallingford, Atoma has James Beard Awards for Best New Restaurant and Best Chef behind it, which tells you something. The chef keeps things hyperseasonal and genuinely playful, and the room feels nothing like a white-tablecloth temple. Couples and curious regulars fill the small space, all quietly thrilled that food this precise still manages to be fun rather than a lecture.
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Nominee · Best New Restaurant
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Nominee · Best Chef: Northwest and Pacific · Johnny Courtney
- Eater Best New Restaurant
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An all-day café in a Wallingford office building sounds like a trap, but this place has a James Beard Award for Best New Restaurant and earns every bit of it. The chef pulls from Japanese heritage, Midwest roots, and serious baking chops to make things like biscuits with chashu pork and miso gravy feel completely natural. The crowd is relaxed and neighborhood-y, the vibe is calm, and the food quietly blows your mind.
- Seattle Met 2025 · Seattle’s Best New Restaurants
- Eater Best All-Day Cafe · The 2025 Eater Seattle Award Winners
- The Infatuation 2025 · #2 · Seattle’s Best New Restaurants
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- Eater Best Focaccia Sandwich · The 2025 Eater Seattle Award Winners
- The Infatuation 2025 · #6 · Seattle’s Best New Restaurants
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A pandemic pop-up that found a permanent home in Seattle's Ravenna neighborhood, My Friend Derek's serves Detroit-style pizza with a tagline of "pretty good pizza," which is both accurate and somehow the most charming marketing in the city. The thick, crispy-edged pies are solid, but the real draw is the vibe and a drinks menu where nearly everything is under ten bucks, with wine notes that'll make you actually read the list.
- The Infatuation 2025 · #11 · The Top-Rated New Restaurants
- Seattle Met 2025 · Seattle’s Best New Restaurants
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Seattle Right Now
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Kin Len is a dim, chic Thai restaurant in Fremont that makes most of the city's Thai spots look like they're playing with training wheels. The menu roams well past the usual suspects, with dishes that feel more Bangkok than Seattle, and cocktails weird enough to make you curious (mezcal, coffee, and sesame oil sharing a jar). The crowd comes dressed to hang, not to rush, which tells you everything.
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Rank 8. Dreamland Bar & Diner
American Cocktail Bar
- The Infatuation The 21 Most Fun Dinner Spots In Seattle
- The Infatuation The Best Restaurants & Bars In Fremont
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Hamdi is a high-end Turkish restaurant where the chef came up through a three-Michelin-star kitchen in California, and it shows. The food is technically serious without feeling stiff, and the whole place runs on a fire-only range, which the cooks manage with handheld fans like it's totally normal. The crowd skews date-night and special-occasion, dressed to match the ambition. When it's firing on all cylinders, it's genuinely exciting.
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Rank 10. Bizzarro Italian Cafe
Italian
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Rank 12. Le Coin
French Cocktail Bar
- Eater The 38 Essential Restaurants in Seattle
- The Infatuation The Best Restaurants & Bars In Fremont
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Rank 13. Daruma Sando
Japanese
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- The New York Times 2025 · Lamb Neck Korma Pie · The Best Restaurant Dishes We Ate Across the U.S.
- Eater Best New Restaurant · The 2025 Eater Seattle Award Winners
- The Infatuation 2025 · #10 · Seattle’s Best New Restaurants
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Rank 15. Communion Restaurant & Bar
Southern
- USA Today 2024 · Restaurants of the Year
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Nominee · Best Chef: Northwest and Pacific · Kristi Brown
- The New York Times 2021 · The Restaurant List
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Rank 16. Bongos Cafe
Caribbean
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Rank 17. Pancita
Mexican
Janet Becerra grinds and nixtamalizes her own heirloom corn daily, which tells you everything about how seriously she takes this place. Pancita is a lively, mid-range Mexican restaurant where European fine-dining training meets deep traditional technique, and the room fills with people who showed up on purpose. She earned a James Beard Award, and one bite of those tortillas explains why. Skip nothing on the menu.
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Nominee · Emerging Chef · Janet Becerra
- Seattle Met 2023 · Seattle’s Best New Restaurants
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Seattle Right Now
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- Wine Enthusiast 2023 · Forward 50 Restaurants
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Nominee · Best Chef: Northwest and Pacific · Aaron Tekulve
- Eater The 38 Essential Restaurants in Seattle
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Rank 20. Altura
Italian
Altura is a fixed tasting menu spot on Capitol Hill where Northwest ingredients get the full Italian treatment, plated with moss and rocks in a way that somehow feels rustic and quietly refined at the same time. The chef has a real eye for elegant weirdness. Service is warm rather than stiff, the wine list is sharp, and a wooden angel watches over the whole room. Save it for a night that deserves it.
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Rank 21. Taurus Ox
Laotian
A casual Laotian restaurant in Capitol Hill that earned a New York Times shoutout, which tells you something. The food is bold and bright, the kind that built enough of a following to graduate from a tiny counter spot into a proper dining room. The crowd skews neighborhood regulars who know exactly what they're ordering. Come for the khao poon and the housemade sausage, but don't sleep on the smash burger, which sounds like a gimmick until you eat it.
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Seattle Right Now
- Seattle Met Seattle’s 50 Best Restaurants
- Eater The 38 Essential Restaurants in Seattle
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- The Infatuation #13 · The 25 Best Restaurants In Seattle
- Seattle Met Seattle’s 50 Best Restaurants
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Emerging Chef · Kevin Smith
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Rank 23. Phở Bắc
Vietnamese
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Nominee · Outstanding Restaurateur · Quynh-Vy and Yenvy Pham
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Nominee · Outstanding Restaurateur · Yenvy and Quynh Pham
- Seattle Met Seattle’s 50 Best Restaurants
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Rank 24. Paju
Korean
- The New York Times 2021 · The Restaurant List
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Seattle Right Now
- Seattle Met Seattle’s 50 Best Restaurants
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Rank 25. Cafe Suliman
Middle Eastern
Cafe Suliman is a daytime cafe tucked inside a wine shop at Melrose Market, and it pulls off a trick that sounds chaotic on paper: Pacific Northwest ingredients filtered through an Arabic pantry, plated on dainty marble tables like a Parisian bistro that took a wrong turn somewhere wonderful. The crowd is the kind that lingers over toast on a Tuesday. A James Beard Emerging Chef is behind it all, so order freely and don't stress about what to get.
- Eater Best Counter
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Emerging Chef · Ahmed Suliman
- Seattle Met Seattle’s Best Lunch Spots
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Rank 27. Spinasse
Northern Italian
- The Infatuation #2 · The 25 Best Restaurants In Seattle
- Seattle Met Seattle’s 50 Best Restaurants
- Eater The 38 Essential Restaurants in Seattle
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Rank 28. The Boat
Vietnamese
A James Beard-winning team runs this Little Saigon all-day spot out of a literal boat-shaped building, and they've committed hard to a single dish: a garlic-crusted, fish sauce-glazed half chicken that arrives sticky-handed and deeply satisfying. The drinks list is surprisingly generous for a one-dish joint, and the pandan waffles with coconut fluff are reason enough to linger. The crowd knows exactly what they're doing here.
- Seattle Met 2023 · Seattle’s Best New Restaurants
- The Infatuation #17 · The 25 Best Restaurants In Seattle
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Yenvy and Quynh Pham
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- James Beard Awards 2024 · Nominee · Outstanding Restaurateur · Quynh-Vy and Yenvy Pham
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Nominee · Outstanding Restaurateur · Yenvy and Quynh Pham
- Bon Appétit 2022 · America's Best New Restaurants
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Rank 30. Gao Lhao
Thai Noodles
- The Infatuation The 21 Most Fun Dinner Spots In Seattle
- Seattle Met 2026 · Seattle's Best Shaved Ice and Slushies
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Rank 31. The Chicken Supply
Filipino
- Eater 2022 · The Best New Restaurants in America
- Seattle Met Seattle’s 50 Best Restaurants
- Eater The 38 Essential Restaurants in Seattle
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Capitol Hill's coolest dinner spot right now takes Vietnamese flavors and sends them on a world tour, landing somewhere genuinely surprising. The chef's team blurs the line between a neighborhood bistro and something more ambitious, with cocktails that hold their own and a menu that rewards ordering things you can't quite picture. The crowd is reliably stylish and curious, the kind of people who actually read the menu before they order.
- Seattle Met 2024 · Seattle’s Best New Restaurants
- Seattle Met Seattle’s 50 Best Restaurants
- Seattle Met 2025 · Tôm Cocktail · The Best Things I Ate This Year
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Rank 33. Lark
New American
Lark is a fine dining room in Capitol Hill that's been around long enough to feel like a fixture, and the James Beard Award for Outstanding Hospitality tells you the staff genuinely means it. The four-course tasting menu is unusually forgiving, with real choices at each round so it never feels like you're just eating the chef's diary. The crowd skews date-night and special-occasion, dressed like they meant it.
- Seattle Met Seattle’s 50 Best Restaurants
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Hospitality
- Eater The 38 Essential Restaurants in Seattle
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Rank 34. Un Bien
Caribbean
- The Infatuation #5 · The 25 Best Restaurants In Seattle
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Seattle Right Now
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- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Seattle Right Now
- Eater The 38 Essential Restaurants in Seattle
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Rank 36. Lupe’s Situ Tacos
Deep-Fried Mexican
The concept sounds like a fever dream but somehow works perfectly: a taco shop in Ballard where everything gets pinned with a toothpick and dunked in the fryer. The tacos draw on a Lebanese family tradition, so expect warm spicing and garlic alongside the crunch and grease. The room is cheerful and lived-in, full of people who clearly heard about this place from someone they trust. Soups round out a short, focused menu that knows exactly what it's doing.
- Esquire 2025 · The Best New Restaurants in America
- Seattle Met 2024 · Seattle’s Best New Restaurants
- The Infatuation #18` · The 25 Best Restaurants In Seattle
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Rank 37. Kilig
Filipino
Kilig is a bright, fast-casual Filipino spot in the International District where the room is splashed with color and the food hits harder than the price tag suggests. Chef Melissa Miranda built her name at Musang, and this looser, bolder follow-up shows her having more fun. The bulalo, a beefy shank soup, is the anchor, but the wings, lumpia, and punchy noodles earn their keep too. The New York Times agrees it belongs on your list.
- Seattle Met 2024 · Seattle’s Best New Restaurants
- The Infatuation The 21 Most Fun Dinner Spots In Seattle
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Seattle Right Now
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Rank 38. Fogón Cocina Mexicana
Mexican
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Rank 39. Le Pichet
French
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Seattle Right Now
- Seattle Met Seattle’s Best Lunch Spots
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- Wine Enthusiast 2023 · Forward 50 Restaurants
- The Stranger 2024 · The Lamb Mabo Pizza · The 10 Best Things I Ate in Seattle
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Rank 41. Oriental Mart
Filipino
- The Infatuation #19 · The 25 Best Restaurants In Seattle
- Eater The 38 Essential Restaurants in Seattle
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Rank 42. Maneki
Japanese
Maneki has been around forever and it shows, in the best way. This homey Japanese restaurant and bar in the International District runs on no-nonsense energy and seriously good food, with regulars who never bother opening the menu. Check the whiteboard for daily specials, that's where the real action is. The crowd skews young but the vibe is all old-school auntie-run institution, and the wait for a table is completely worth it.
- The Infatuation The 21 Most Fun Dinner Spots In Seattle
- Seattle Met Seattle’s 50 Best Restaurants
- Seattle Met 2026 · The Best Restaurants in the Chinatown–International District Right Now
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Rank 43. Maripili Tapas Bar
Spanish
A Spanish tapas bar on Capitol Hill where the Pacific Northwest and Galicia quietly agree they have a lot in common, mostly seafood. The chef's pastry background shows up in desserts worth actually saving room for, and the sherry list is longer than you'd expect. The crowd tends toward people who know what they're doing, which keeps the vibe relaxed and the room from feeling like a theme park.
- Seattle Met Seattle’s 50 Best Restaurants
- Seattle Met 2023 · Croissant Sobrasada Roll · The Best Things I Ate This Year
- Seattle Met 2024 · Flan de Erizo · The Best Things I Ate This Year
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Rank 44. Lenox
Caribbean
Caribbean cooking with real roots and a serious rum list, Lenox feels like someone threw a backyard party in Harlem and somehow ended up on First Hill. The vibe is beachy and loose, the kind of spot where the bartender tops you off before you ask. The food honors the Puerto Rican diaspora without being precious about it, and the lechon is worth making a whole night around. Bon Appétit named it one of America's best new restaurants, which tracks.
- Bon Appétit 2025 · America's Best New Restaurants
- Seattle Met 2024 · Seattle’s Best New Restaurants
- The Infatuation The 21 Most Fun Dinner Spots In Seattle
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Rank 45. La Cabaña
Latin
La Cabaña looks like a classic diner from the outside, stools at the counter and coffee pots on the move, but the menu swaps Texas toast for pupusas and hash browns for fried plantains. It pulls together Honduran, Nicaraguan, and Guatemalan cooking under one roof, which means the regulars packed in here are basically a map of Seattle's Central American communities, all sharing food and, when the soccer's on, strong opinions.
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Rank 46. Musang
Filipino
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Nominee · Best Chef: Northwest and Pacific · Melissa Miranda
- The Infatuation #3 · The 25 Best Restaurants In Seattle
- Seattle Met Seattle’s 50 Best Restaurants
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Rank 47. Familyfriend
Guamanian
A casual Beacon Hill spot doing Guamanian food in a way Seattle hadn't really seen before, and it's a James Beard Best New Restaurant winner, so someone noticed. The smashburger went viral and briefly filled the room with TikTokers, but the regulars have reclaimed their pistachio booths and the shady back patio. The empanadas and corn soup are the real reason to linger.
- Esquire 2024 · Lola Martini · The Best Martinis in America
- The New York Times 2024 · The Restaurant List
- The Infatuation #10 · The 25 Best Restaurants In Seattle
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Rank 48. Xi'an Noodles
Chinese
The biang biang noodles here are the reason this casual noodle shop on the Ave has a loyal following. Wide, hand-pulled ribbons with a chew that's hard to explain until you've had them, dressed in cumin lamb or tingly beef or just good chile oil. Students and regulars pack in for lunch knowing exactly what they're getting, and nobody's overthinking the menu. It's cheap, it's fast, and it quietly sets the standard for the whole city.
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Rank 49. Cafe Munir
Middle Eastern
Cafe Munir is the kind of neighborhood Middle Eastern spot that used to be everywhere and now feels like a small miracle when you find one. Loyal Heights locals pack the intimate dining room, which has white tablecloths and filigree pendant lights without an ounce of pretension. The mezze spreads and kebabs taste deeply personal, like someone's family recipes made it onto a menu. Not fancy, just really, really good.
- Seattle Met Seattle’s 50 Best Restaurants
- The Stranger 2024 · Hummus Bil Lahm ou Snobar · The 10 Best Things I Ate in Seattle
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Rank 50. Homer
Wood-Fired Mediterranean
A James Beard-winning chef runs this wood-fired Mediterranean spot in Beacon Hill, and the room feels like your coolest neighbor's dinner party, if your neighbor had a wood oven and a soft-serve window out back. The pitas come out of that oven almost too hot to hold, still puffed and blistered, and everything you spread on them earns its place. The lamb ribs alone are worth the trip.
- Seattle Met Seattle’s 50 Best Restaurants
- Eater The 38 Essential Restaurants in Seattle
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Northwest and Pacific · Logan Cox
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A low-key Indian-Nepali spot tucked into a strip on Aurora that fills up fast, especially on weekends when the kitchen cranks out hundreds of momos a night. The menu is long and genuinely fun to explore, with dumplings alone coming in a bunch of different styles, but start with the Dal Bhat thali if you want to understand what the place is really about. The crowd skews regulars who already know exactly what they're ordering.
- Seattle Met 2024 · Seattle’s Best New Restaurants
- The Infatuation #8 · The 25 Best Restaurants In Seattle
- Seattle Met Seattle’s 50 Best Restaurants
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Rank 52. Asadero
Steak House, Mexican
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Rank 53. Cornelly
Italian
- The Infatuation #21 · The 25 Best Restaurants In Seattle
- The Infatuation The 21 Most Fun Dinner Spots In Seattle
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Rank 54. King's Hardware
American
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This Southern-inflected breakfast and lunch spot on Capitol Hill is the kind of place where the biscuits alone justify the trip. Big, buttery, and served with fried chicken to people who clearly planned their whole morning around this meal, it has a warm, lived-in feel that makes you want to linger. The crowd runs toward flannel and good intentions, and nobody looks like they're in a hurry to get anywhere.
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Rank 58. Alebrijes Kitchen
Mexican
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Rank 60. Pasta Casalinga
Italian
A tiny pasta counter tucked above the Pike Place Market Atrium, where the menu changes every two weeks based on whatever's looking good at the market below. The chef rotates through unexpected combinations, pairing shapes with seasonal ingredients in ways you wouldn't think to order but can't argue with once they arrive. It draws the kind of lunch crowd that knows to check what's on before they show up. Go hungry, keep an open mind.
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Rank 62. Vindicktive Bar and Wings
Bar Food
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Rank 63. Tamari Bar
Japanese Cocktail Bar
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Rank 64. Mojito
Latin
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Rank 67. Pelicana Chicken
Korean
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Rank 68. The Pink Door
Italian
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Rank 70. Vivienne's Bistro
Chinese
Vivienne's Bistro is an upscale Chinese restaurant inside the Sheraton that takes Cantonese cooking and quietly does whatever it wants with it, lobster rangoon and surf-and-turf kung pao included. The room is warm and a little dramatic, with wooden lanterns and colorful cocktails flowing freely. The crowd dresses up just enough to feel like a night out. The Forbidden Roast Duck, five-spiced with crackling skin and monogrammed bao buns, is genuinely worth the fuss.
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Rank 71. Jeffry's
American
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Rank 72. Cafe Flora
Vegetarian, Vegan, American/New American
Cafe Flora is the kind of neighborhood restaurant that makes meat-eaters forget to miss meat, which is either a miracle or a magic trick depending on who you ask. It's a relaxed vegetarian and vegan spot in Madison Valley with a plant-filled atrium and a sunny patio where brunch crowds linger longer than they planned. The cinnamon rolls have a reputation that precedes them. Carnivorous friends will leave converted, or at least quiet about it.
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A Mexican seafood counter inside a brewery sounds like a weird flex, but La Marea pulls it off beautifully. The team came up from LA and brought real heat with them, serving scallop aguachile and silky tuna tostadas to a crowd that came in for the farmhouse ales and stayed for the food. It's casual and buzzy, the kind of place where the beer list and the menu feel like they were made for each other.
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Rank 75. Secret Congee
Modern American
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Rank 76. Miss Pho
Noodles
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Rank 77. Ba Bar
Vietnamese
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Rank 78. L'Oursin
French
A wainscoted French bistro that sneaks Pacific Northwest seafood onto the menu and describes its wines with phrases you'd expect from a group chat, not a sommelier. The bar is serious enough to have won a national award, and the food follows suit, with Dungeness crab and spot prawns doing their best Parisian impression. The crowd tends toward couples who actually dressed up and regulars who already know what they're ordering.
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Restaurant Bar – U.S. West
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Restaurant Bar – U.S. West
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Honoree · Best U.S. Restaurant Bar – U.S. West
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Rank 79. Pestle Rock
Thai
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Rank 82. Dough Zone
Chinese
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Rank 85. Bellwether BBQ
Korean
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The bagels here are the point, full stop. This University Village bagel shop does one thing obsessively well: baking rounds with crackly, golden exteriors and a chewy, fragrant interior that makes you realize most bagels have been lying to you. Fair warning, they won't slice, toast, or schmear for you. Cream cheese comes on the side for ripping and dipping, New York style. Purists will get it immediately; everyone else comes around fast.
- Seattle Met 2025 · Seattle’s Best New Restaurants
- The Infatuation 2025 · #3 · Seattle’s Best New Restaurants
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Rank 88. Matt's in the Market
Seafood, Northwest
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Rank 89. Bottega Gabriele
Italian
An Italian deli run by two guys from Italy, both named Gabriele, who communicate with each other at full volume and maximum hand movement. The focaccia sandwiches are genuinely excellent, piled with imported prosciutto, mortadella, and salami, plus house-made 'nduja from next door. The shelves are stocked with imported cheeses, Calabrian honey, and bottarga. Vegetarians exist here too, just ask nicely.
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Rank 90. Byrek & Baguette
Balkan
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Rank 91. Skalka
Georgian
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Rank 92. Red Bowls
Korean
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Rank 93. Onibaba
Japanese
- Seattle Met Seattle’s Best Lunch Spots
- Seattle Met 2026 · The Best Restaurants in the Chinatown–International District Right Now
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Rank 94. Ahadu Ethiopian Restaurant
Ethiopian
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Rank 95. A+ HK Restaurant
Chinese
- Seattle Met Seattle’s Best Lunch Spots
- Seattle Met 2026 · The Best Restaurants in the Chinatown–International District Right Now
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- Seattle Met 2024 · Pak Mor Yuan · The Best Things I Ate This Year
- Seattle Met 2023 · Khao Soi Chiang Mai · The Best Things I Ate This Year
- Seattle Met Seattle’s Best Lunch Spots
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Rank 97. Damn the Weather
Northwest, Cocktail Bar
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Rank 99. Fat's Chicken and Waffles
Southern/Creole/Cajun, Breakfast/Brunch
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