The Top 100 Restaurants Near Moonshot Coffee
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Rank 1. Tomo
American
Tomo is a sleek, stylishly dim upscale American restaurant in West Seattle where the kitchen does Japanese-inflected cooking that resists easy categorization, and honestly that's the whole point. The menu swings from fried chicken to chawanmushi with total confidence, and the wine program is genuinely outstanding, James Beard Award-winning if you need convincing. The crowd skews curious and adventurous, people who order the kakigori just to see if it'll topple.
- The New York Times 2025 · Dungeness Crab Rice · The Best Restaurant Dishes We Ate Across the U.S.
- Esquire 2022 · #30 · The Best New Restaurants in America
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Seattle Right Now
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Rank 2. Archipelago
Progressive Filipino
Twelve seats, ten courses, and a tasting menu that treats Filipino food as a lens for Pacific Northwest history in ways that somehow feel personal rather than academic. Archipelago is one of those rare spots where the storytelling and the cooking are equally good, which has earned it a James Beard Award. Getting a reservation is notoriously hard, but the crowd that manages it tends to sit very still and pay close attention, which tells you everything.
- The Infatuation Infatuation’s Highest-Rated Restaurants In America
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Nominee · Outstanding Hospitality
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Nominee · Best Chef: Northwest and Pacific · Aaron Verzosa
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Rank 3. Familyfriend
Hawaiian
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 4. 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 5. Ciudad
Mediterranean
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Rank 6. Off Alley
European-Influenced
Twelve seats in a brick corridor, a chalkboard that changes daily, and a James Beard Award on the shelf. Off Alley is the kind of tiny, European-leaning dinner spot where the staff describes every plate like they genuinely can't believe you're about to eat it. The chef leans into organs, odd little fish, and the weirder corners of the PNW pantry, and somehow it all lands. Wear something nice but not stuffy.
- The New York Times 2022 · 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 7. 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
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- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Northwest and Pacific · Logan Cox
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Rank 8. Loretta's Northwesterner
American/New American
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Rank 9. 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 10. 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 New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Seattle Right Now
- The Infatuation The 21 Most Fun Dinner Spots In Seattle
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Rank 11. 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 2025 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Quynh Pham and Yenvy Pham
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Rank 14. Mezzanotte
Italian
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Rank 15. 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.
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- 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 16. Delish Ethiopian Cuisine
Ethiopian
- Seattle Met 2023 · Bozena Shero · The Best Things I Ate This Year
- Eater The 38 Essential Restaurants in Seattle
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Rank 17. The Crawfish Hut
Seafood Cajun & Creole
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Rank 18. BOPBOX
Korean
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Rank 20. Billiard Hoang
Vietnamese
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Rank 21. 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 24. Soufend Cafe & Eatery
Vietnamese
The fusion-forward Vietnamese cafe in South Seattle that actually backs up its aesthetic with serious cooking. The menu swings from stir-fried snails in coconut sauce to bún bò Huế tacos, and the bánh xèo arrives on a woven basket surrounded by a pile of herbs like it's making an entrance. The crowd is mostly locals who dress like they have a Substack. Order the matcha latte and something you've never heard of.
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- Seattle Met 2025 · Smashwich · The Best Things I Ate This Year
- The Stranger 2024 · The Potato Chip Crispy Treat · The 10 Best Things I Ate in Seattle
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Rank 28. Jackalope
Tex-Mex
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Rank 29. Oriental Mart
Filipino
- The Infatuation #19 · The 25 Best Restaurants In Seattle
- Eater The 38 Essential Restaurants in Seattle
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Rank 31. il nido
Italian
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Rank 32. Driftwood
Northwest
A waterfront Northwest restaurant on Alki that actually earns the seasonal-local cliché, because the chef sources almost everything from Washington, including his mom's garden. The food looks like maximalist art and somehow never tips into overkill. Views of the beach are right there, the bar is genuinely worth the trip on its own, and the desserts are quietly excellent. The crowd is relaxed enough that nobody's keeping score.
- Seattle Met 2023 · Seattle’s Best New Restaurants
- Seattle Met Seattle’s 50 Best Restaurants
- Seattle Met 2023 · Desserts · The Best Things I Ate This Year
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Rank 33. 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 34. Le Pichet
Parisian French
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Seattle Right Now
- Seattle Met Seattle’s Best Lunch Spots
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- James Beard Awards 2023 · Nominee · Outstanding Restaurateur · Yenvy and Quynh Pham
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Nominee · Outstanding Restaurateur · Quynh-Vy and Yenvy Pham
- Bon Appétit 2022 · America's Best New Restaurants
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Rank 36. Milk Drunk
Soft Serve, Sandwiches/Deli
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Rank 37. Arthur's
American/New American
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Rank 38. 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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- 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 40. 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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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
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- Seattle Met 2025 · Tôm Cocktail · The Best Things I Ate This Year
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Rank 42. 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 2024 · Flan de Erizo · The Best Things I Ate This Year
- Seattle Met 2023 · Croissant Sobrasada Roll · The Best Things I Ate This Year
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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 44. Fogón Cocina Mexicana
Mexican
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Rank 45. 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 46. Bellwether BBQ
Korean
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Rank 47. Canlis
Northwest New American
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 48. Dough Zone
Chinese
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Rank 49. iconiq
Japanese, French
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- Seattle Met 2023 · Khao Soi Chiang Mai · The Best Things I Ate This Year
- Seattle Met 2024 · Pak Mor Yuan · The Best Things I Ate This Year
- Seattle Met Seattle’s Best Lunch Spots
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Rank 52. Paju
Modern 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 53. 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 54. 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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Rank 55. 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 56. 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 57. 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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Rank 58. Damn the Weather
Northwest, Cocktail Bar
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Rank 59. 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 60. Boiling Point
Chinese
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Rank 63. Hong Kong Bistro
Chinese
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Rank 64. Fort St. George
Japanese
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Rank 65. King Noodle
Chinese
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Rank 66. Fuji Bakery
Japanese, Bakery/Pastry Shop
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Rank 67. Tai Tung
Chinese
Tai Tung has been around forever, and the long counter alone is worth the trip: scuffed with decades of regulars and plastered with celebrity photos. It's a classic Chinese diner where the food is homey and honest, the service is quick but genuinely warm, and the owner will wave you off at the door like he's known you for years. Come hungry for something saucy and comforting, and leave waddling.
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Rank 68. Kau Kau BBQ Restaurant
Chinese, Barbecue
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Rank 69. Mike's Noodle House
Chinese
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Rank 70. Jade Garden
Chinese
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Rank 71. 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 72. Szechuan Noodle Bowl
Chinese
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Rank 73. Chengdu Memory 蓉城老火锅
Chinese
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Rank 74. Jin Huang
Chinese
Jin Huang is a slick, modern Cantonese spot in the former House of Hong building, run by a New York restaurant group and doing claypot dishes and roasted meats at prices that feel almost suspiciously reasonable. Most of the menu comes in under $15, which draws a crowd who clearly knows what they're doing. The catch is that it shares the space with Diamond Bay, whose full dim sum menu is also on offer, so good luck keeping it cheap.
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Rank 75. The Pink Door
Italian
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Rank 76. Ba Bar
Vietnamese
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Rank 77. Skalka
Georgian
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Rank 78. Phnom Penh Noodle House
Cambodian
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Rank 79. Red Bowls
Korean
Red Bowls is a no-frills Korean rice bowl counter that's been doing its thing long before rice bowls became a whole personality. Tucked into the ground floor of an office building on Third Avenue, it draws a steady lunch crowd of downtown workers who know exactly what they're getting. No website, no fuss, just a huge menu of bibimbap and rice bowls piled high, and a line that actually moves.
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Rank 80. Humble Pie
Pizza
The pizza here is genuinely good, which is almost beside the point once you clock that the owner built the whole place himself, including the stools, and raises chickens out back. It's a wood-fired slice spot in the International District with mostly outdoor seating, so summer is prime time, though the neighborhood energy and rotating ciders make it worth braving the cold too. Thin crusts with real chew, interesting topping combos, zero pretension.
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Rank 81. Chu Minh Tofu and Vegan Deli
Vietnamese, Vegan
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Rank 82. Sichuanese Cuisine
Chinese
An old-school International District institution that was doing Sichuan homestyle cooking before Seattle knew what Sichuan was. Think big bowls, ropy noodles, and a menu that lists wontons as "Sichuan ravioli" with zero irony. The regulars here didn't need a trendy rebrand to know the food was good, and neither will you. Bring an appetite and maybe a friend to split the boiled fish, which sounds mild and absolutely isn't.
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Rank 83. Thanh Son Tofu
Vietnamese
A Vietnamese deli that started as a tofu factory and apparently decided décor was an afterthought, then overcompensated wildly. The tofu is the reason to show up, fresh and sold by the pound, and yes you will eat it out of the bag on the sidewalk. Banh mi come on house-baked bread, and the dessert case is a chaotic rainbow of che options that rewards pointing randomly at things.
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Rank 84. Saigon Deli
Vietnamese
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Rank 85. 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 87. Vindicktive Bar and Wings
Bar Food
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Rank 88. Matt's in the Market
Seafood, Northwest
Perched above Pike Place Market on the second floor, Matt's is a proper sit-down seafood spot with views over the rooftops straight to the bay, which is exactly as good as it sounds. The menu leans Northwest with a quiet Italian influence, and the ingredients are clearly doing most of the heavy lifting. Lunch is the smart play if your wallet needs a breather, and the catfish sandwich will genuinely surprise you.
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Rank 89. 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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Sacro Bosco is the evening version of Temple Pastries, and it carries that same obsessive, beautiful energy into dinner. The pizza is long, rectangular, and focaccia-adjacent, piled with deli-worthy toppings like mortadella and pistachio pesto. But honestly, the whole menu is the point. The room feels like the kind of effortless Italian cool Americans are always chasing, and the crowd knows it.
- Seattle Met 2025 · Seattle’s Best New Restaurants
- The Infatuation 2025 · #9 · Seattle’s Best New Restaurants
- Seattle Met 2025 · Housemade Ricotta · The Best Things I Ate This Year
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Rank 91. Jeffry's
American
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Rank 93. 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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Rank 94. Byrek & Baguette
Balkan
The byrek are the reason to come. This casual Balkan café near Seattle U does baguettes and salads just fine, but the real draw is the Albanian pastry half of the menu: flaky coiled pies stuffed with leeks and feta or beef and onions, served with housemade yogurt for dipping. Save room for baklava from the counter case. The crowd is mostly students who look like they stumbled onto a secret, which, honestly, they kind of did.
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Rank 95. Kamonegi
Japanese
- James Beard Awards 2022 · Nominee · Best Chef: Northwest and Pacific · Mutsuko Soma
- Eater 2018 · The Best New Restaurants in America
- Bon Appétit 2018 · America's Best New Restaurants
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Rank 96. Tamari Bar
Japanese Cocktail Bar
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Rank 97. Pelicana Chicken
Korean
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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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