The Best Places to Eat in Tacoma
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The best places to eat in Tacoma, according to the experts: US Coffee Championships and Seattle Met have both weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Olympia Coffee Roasters comes out on top.
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The awards
- US Coffee Championships US Coffee Championships: #2 · U.S. Coffee in Good Spirits Championship · Richelle Taylor
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Rank 2. Grann
BBQ-Indian fusion Cajun & Creole
Deep-fried puri shells arrive golf-ball-size and hollow, packed with cool pimento cheese softened by sweet onion jam, and that alone explains why Tacoma's Grann has Seattle making the drive south. The restaurant calls itself Southern BBQ, Creole, and Indian fusion, but the food lands somewhere past hyphenation, like a cuisine that simply grew up that way. Dramatic green walls and a tiger photograph that somehow matches the room give the dining room real personality.
The awards
- Seattle Met The Best Restaurants in Washington State
- Seattle Met Seattle’s Best New Restaurants
- Seattle Met Puri Pimento Bites · The Best Things I Ate This Year
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A firepit on the patio and shared tables set the tone at this lively Asian street-food spot in Tacoma, where the menu pulls from Thai curries to Korean kimchi barbecue without planting a flag in any single tradition. The crispy rice salad with sausage has a following. Cocktails get serious attention, which separates it from the quieter sit-down sibling it spun off from. New owners took over in 2025, and the regulars, having briefly panicked, have since relaxed.
The awards