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A barely-there sign on Beacon Hill marks this casual Guamanian restaurant and bar, which is either accidental humility or the universe's way of filtering out TikTokers (it has not worked). The menu follows the chef's biography through Filipino chicken adobo tacos and Guam-style corn soup, but the achiote-orange empanadas, stuffed with raisined beef and served in a pool of fina'denne', are what drew a James Beard semifinalist nod in 2025.
The awards strongest first
- The Infatuation The Best Burgers In America
- Esquire Lola Martini · The Best Martinis in America
- The New York Times 2024 · The Restaurant List
- The Infatuation #10 · The 25 Best Restaurants In Seattle
- Seattle Met Seattle’s Best New Restaurants
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Seattle Right Now
- Seattle Met Seattle’s 50 Best Restaurants
- Eater Best Burger
- Seattle Met Riyenu Empanadas · The Best Things I Ate This Year
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Best New Restaurant
One number, weighted & current 90
How we scoreThe dishes from the writeups
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Smashburger
“When the pickle-packed smashburger and crisp, thin french fries went viral earlier in 2024, visiting tourists and camera-toting TikTokkers trampled all over that idea.”
Seattle Met, 2024 -
Chicken adobo tacos
“The diners lined up at opening time are there for the burger, sure, but also piquant chicken adobo tacos and batchoy “La Paz Style,” an envelopingly unctuous noodle soup of pig offal and fermented shrimp broth.”
The New York Times, 2024 -
Typhoon Donuts
“And if you don’t end with the fried-to-order Typhoon Donuts with white-peach coulis, you’ve left your meal unfinished.”
The New York Times, 2024
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