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Wednesday, October 21

Local press The Stranger

Pop Loser: Bono Quoted Dan Savage

Welcome back to Pop Loser! This week, unexpected worlds collided: Bono and Dan Savage, John Wilson and Harry Styles, and David Byrne and Oliva Rodrigo. Joni Mitchell can now vote in the US. Plus, a shout-out to the cool goth working at…Music at The Stranger

Audrey Vann · Music

Tuesday, October 20

Seattle’s Best 100 Eat See the list →

Ray's Cafe climbs 21.

  1. Climbs The Little BeastSeattle Was No. 39 No.31
  2. Climbs Un BienSeattle Was No. 45 No.40
  3. Climbs Cafe MunirSeattle Was No. 74 No.62
  4. Climbs Lupe’s Situ TacosSeattle Was No. 67 No.64
  5. Climbs Ray's CafeSeattle Was No. 88 No.67
  6. Enters DelanceySeattle No.98
  7. Slips Hagen Coffee RoastersSeattle Was No. 65 No.68
  8. Slips LenoxSeattle Was No. 66 No.69
  9. Slips Olympia Coffee RoastersTacoma Was No. 68 No.71
  10. Leaves Delish Ethiopian CuisineSeattle Was No. 100 off the list

Local press Secret Seattle

Inside the dramatic glass walls of the Seattle Central Library, a new photography exhibition by a displaced artist is exposing the hidden realities behind Puerto Rico’s “tropical paradise” image

Puerto Rico is often sold as a tropical paradise, all turquoise water and sun-soaked beaches. But a new photography exhibition at Seattle Central Library is looking at what gets left out of that picture. “Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico,…at Secret Seattle

Harriet Scrumptious

Monday, October 19

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The full ranking →

Seattle’s Best 100

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Heat measures the density of honors, not our taste.

  1. 1 Belltown & First Hill
  2. 2 Fremont & Queen Anne

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.

    How we score →

    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.

      How we score →

      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.

        How we score →

        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.