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Things to Do in August: Literature

Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food & Drink, and This & That. Puget Sound Book FestivalAug 9The Puget Sound Book Festival bills itself as the “supersized, all-ages…at The Stranger

Julianne Bell

Local press The Stranger

Things to Do in August: Film

Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food & Drink, and This & That. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp MiasmaOpens Aug 13Never in my life have I been so seated for a film as I…at The Stranger

Julianne Bell and Audrey Vann

Local press The Stranger

Things to Do in August: Visual Art

Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food & Drink, and This & That. Perimeter Road at 13th & GreelyAug 7–21In April, I wrote about Marcellus Bonow-Manier’s residency at the…at The Stranger

Amanda Manitach

Local press The Stranger

Things to Do in August: Food & Drink

Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food & Drink, and This & That. Sushi Kaiju with James HeadAug 5–9For five nights, the Carlile Room is unleashing Sushi Kaiju upon the…Food & Drink at The Stranger

Meg van Huygen and Julianne Bell · Food & Drink

The full ranking →

Seattle’s Best 100

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  1. 1 CanlisSeattle Eat score, 93
  2. 2 ArchipelagoSeattle · Filipino Eat score, 91
  3. 3 Communion Restaurant & BarSeattle Eat score, 90
  4. 3 FamilyfriendSeattle · Hawaiian Up from 10 Eat score, 90
  5. 5 AtomaSeattle Eat score, 87
  6. 5 MusangSeattle · Filipino Eat score, 87
  7. 5 PancitaSeattle Eat score, 87
  8. 5 The Walrus and the CarpenterSeattle · Oyster Bar Eat score, 87
  9. 9 SurrellSeattle Eat score, 86
  10. 10 Barking FrogWoodinville Eat score, 85

The full 100 → 315 ranked

Now scoring:
any address

Sample · Brooklyn

Williamsburg
and Greenpoint

74

Higher than 62% of scored places

In this report

  • One score, 0 to 100, and its rank among every scored place
  • The good stuff within a walk, and within a drive
  • The weather and the air, right at that spot
  • How life goes in the country, and where it ranks

We score the map point and keep no record of who asked. The report names the neighborhood, never the street.

Eat Score

The score comes from the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin star outweighs a listicle. When you sort by what's nearby, distance changes the order, never the score.

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    Drink Score

    The score comes from the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin star outweighs a listicle. When you sort by what's nearby, distance changes the order, never the score.

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      Stay Score

      Four fifths of the score is the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin Key outweighs a listicle. The last fifth is where it is: the ranked places to eat and things to do around it, and how safe the country is. When you sort by what's nearby, distance from you changes the order, never the score.

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        Do Score

        The score comes from the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin star outweighs a listicle. When you sort by what's nearby, distance changes the order, never the score.

          How we score →

          Best Place Score

          The Best Place Score rates the area around a point, not any one place. The places are 60% of it: the best of what's within reach, weighed by distance. The setting is the other 40%: how life goes in that country (how people rate their own lives, how long and how well they live, how safe they are) and what it's like right there (the air, and the weather). If the score looks low, we probably haven't found enough critics out here yet.