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The hojicha canelé, flavored with roasted green tea and whiskey, tells you everything you need to know before you've found a seat. The Wayland Mill is an all-day café on the ground floor of a Wallingford office building, where the chef's Japanese heritage, Midwest upbringing, and years running Seattle restaurants converge on one menu. The Saint Paul Sando alone, a riff on St. Louis Chinese-American egg foo young pressed into precise tamago on shokupan, has made it a James Beard semifinalist.
The awards strongest first
- Seattle Met Seattle’s Best New Restaurants
- Eater Best All-Day Cafe · The 2025 Eater Seattle Award Winners
- The Infatuation #2 · Seattle’s Best New Restaurants
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Best New Restaurant
One number, weighted & current 81
How we scoreThe dishes from the writeups
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Hojicha canelé
“The all-day-café format he mastered at London Plane makes use of imaginative baked goods à la Saint Bread—the hojicha canelé flavored with roasted green tea and whiskey immediately cemented its signature-dish status.”
Seattle Met, 2025 -
Buffalo chicken karaage
“Saito’s Midwest roots met pizza at Tivoli, but at the Wayland Mill he combines them with his Japanese heritage, resulting in buffalo chicken karaage and biscuits with chashu pork and miso gravy.”
Seattle Met, 2025 -
Saint Paul Sando
“The best illustration of the Wayland Mill’s mellifluous multicultural mélange comes from its Saint Paul Sando, which turns a regional specialty of St.”
Seattle Met, 2025 -
Biscuits with chashu pork
“Saito’s Midwest roots met pizza at Tivoli, but at the Wayland Mill he combines them with his Japanese heritage, resulting in buffalo chicken karaage and biscuits with chashu pork and miso gravy.”
Seattle Met, 2025
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