The Top 100 Restaurants Near Rimini Restaurant
-
Rank 1. Rimini Restaurant
Italian
-
Rank 2. 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
-
-
Rank 4. Kathakali
Indian
- Seattle Met Seattle’s Best Lunch Spots
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Northwest and Pacific · Ajay Panicker
-
-
-
-
-
Rank 9. 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
-
- 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
-
-
- Seattle Met 2023 · Omakase · The Best Things I Ate This Year
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Northwest and Pacific · Jun Takai
-
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
-
Rank 14. 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 2024 · The Best New Restaurants in America
-
Rank 15. 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
-
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
-
Rank 17. 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
- Wine Enthusiast The Wine Restaurant Hall of Fame
-
Rank 18. Gao Lhao
Thai Noodles
- The Infatuation The 21 Most Fun Dinner Spots In Seattle
- Seattle Met 2026 · Seattle's Best Shaved Ice and Slushies
-
Rank 19. 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.
-
Rank 20. 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
-
Rank 21. Haidilao Hot Pot
Chinese
-
Rank 22. 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
-
Rank 23. Xi'an Noodles
Chinese
-
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
-
Rank 25. Kobuta & Ookami
Japanese
-
Rank 26. Bongos Cafe
Caribbean
-
-
Rank 28. Carmine's
Italian
-
-
Rank 30. 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
-
Rank 31. Mojito
Latin
-
Rank 32. 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 2024 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Quynh-Vy and Yenvy Pham
-
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
-
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
-
Rank 35. Cafe Suliman
Middle Eastern
- Eater Best Counter
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Emerging Chef · Ahmed Suliman
- Seattle Met Seattle’s Best Lunch Spots
-
- Wine Enthusiast 2023 · Forward 50 Restaurants
- The Stranger 2024 · The Lamb Mabo Pizza · The 10 Best Things I Ate in Seattle
-
-
Rank 38. 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.
-
-
Rank 40. Ahadu Ethiopian Restaurant
Ethiopian
-
Rank 41. 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
-
Rank 42. Fogón Cocina Mexicana
Mexican
-
Rank 43. 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
-
Rank 44. 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
-
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.
-
- 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
-
- Eater Best Focaccia Sandwich · The 2025 Eater Seattle Award Winners
- The Infatuation 2025 · #6 · Seattle’s Best New Restaurants
-
Rank 48. 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
-
Rank 49. 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
- Seattle Met 2024 · Seattle’s Best New Restaurants
-
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
-
Rank 51. 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
-
-
-
- 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
-
Rank 55. 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
-
Rank 56. 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
-
-
-
Rank 59. Cornelly
Italian
- The Infatuation #21 · The 25 Best Restaurants In Seattle
- The Infatuation The 21 Most Fun Dinner Spots In Seattle
-
Rank 60. Bizzarro Italian Cafe
Italian
-
Rank 61. Le Pichet
French
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Seattle Right Now
- Seattle Met Seattle’s Best Lunch Spots
-
Rank 62. Oriental Mart
Filipino
- The Infatuation #19 · The 25 Best Restaurants In Seattle
- Eater The 38 Essential Restaurants in Seattle
-
Rank 63. 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 2025 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Northwest and Pacific · Logan Cox
-
- 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
-
-
-
-
-
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Seattle Right Now
- Eater The 38 Essential Restaurants in Seattle
-
Rank 70. Fat's Chicken and Waffles
Southern/Creole/Cajun, Breakfast/Brunch
-
-
Rank 72. Lenox
Caribbean
- 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
-
Rank 73. Daruma Sando
Japanese
-
Rank 74. Jeffry's
American
-
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.
-
Rank 76. 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
-
-
Rank 78. Pelicana Chicken
Korean
-
Rank 79. Tamari Bar
Japanese Cocktail Bar
-
Rank 80. 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
-
Rank 81. Dreamland Bar & Diner
American Cocktail Bar
- The Infatuation The 21 Most Fun Dinner Spots In Seattle
- The Infatuation The Best Restaurants & Bars In Fremont
-
Rank 82. Ba Bar
Vietnamese
-
-
Rank 84. 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
-
-
-
Rank 87. Le Coin
French Cocktail Bar
- Eater The 38 Essential Restaurants in Seattle
- The Infatuation The Best Restaurants & Bars In Fremont
-
-
Rank 89. iconiq
Japanese, French
-
-
De La Soil is a kitchen inside a distillery taproom in Kenmore, which sounds like a weird setup until the food arrives and suddenly nothing else matters. It's casual and dog-friendly with outdoor games, but the seasonal menu pulls from a nearby farm and lands somewhere between genuinely creative and deeply comforting. The crowd spans families with strollers and people who drove out specifically for the cooking, which tells you everything.
-
Rank 92. 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 Infatuation The 21 Most Fun Dinner Spots In Seattle
-
Rank 93. Un Bien
Caribbean
- The Infatuation #5 · The 25 Best Restaurants In Seattle
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Seattle Right Now
-
-
Rank 95. Byrek & Baguette
Balkan
-
-
Rank 97. Mama’s Kitchen
Korean
-
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
- Seattle Met 2025 · Housemade Ricotta · The Best Things I Ate This Year
- The Infatuation 2025 · #9 · Seattle’s Best New Restaurants
-
Rank 99. 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.
-
Rank 100. Alebrijes Kitchen
Mexican