Union Square Grill
A snug little bar below street level where the staff is ultra professional and the clientèle is mostly professional, too. And it's a good meeting point for ACT…
621 Union St
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-224-4321
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-224-4321
Daawat Indian Grill and Bar
I’m a deep lover of Indian food, but I live in a city that only has a few decent Indian restaurants. And the closest of these to my place of work on Capitol Hi…
820 Pike St
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-467-7272
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-467-7272
Vessel
Note: Vessel has reopened in a new location. Vessel is a cutting-edge lounge in an otherwise dead-at-night section of downtown (save for the nearby 5th Avenue …
1312 Fifth Ave
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-652-0521
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-652-0521
W Hotel Seattle
The swank W invites you to "lounge in the Living Room, our main floor with a jaw-dropping, three-story fireplace covered in nearly 1,000 stainless steel tiles …
1112 Fourth Ave
Downtown Seattle
206-264-6000
Downtown Seattle
206-264-6000
Frolik Kitchen + Cocktails
Five stories up in the Motif Seattle hotel, Frolik has downtown Seattle's largest outdoor patio at 4,000 square feet, with ping-pong and shuffleboard tables pl…
1415 Fifth Ave
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-971-8015
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-971-8015
Outlier
Hats off to Chef Shawn Applin, whose media preview menu for Outlier proved to be a genuine pleasure, from perfectly al dente carrots in the Vadouvan curry, to …
1101 4th Ave
Downtown Seattle
206-624-7755
Downtown Seattle
206-624-7755
The Brooklyn Seafood, Steak & Oyster House
The Brooklyn offers seafood and steak served amid old-school-style elegance—it’s bustling in the oyster-bar front, cushioned (albeit with dated upholstery) in …
1212 Second Ave
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-224-7000
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-224-7000
Oliver's Lounge
I can never get enough of Oliver's Lounge (405 Olive Way). I'm deeply in love with this bar's windows. These windows are huge and have a view of Macy's (whose …
405 Olive Way
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-623-8700
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-623-8700
Italian Family Pizza
Seattle’s got a lot of fancied-up thin-crust pizza places, and a lot of them are really good. But if you want truly great pizza pie without having to wait an e…
1028 Madison St
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-538-0040
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-538-0040
The Diller Room
The Diller Room is in the old (very old) Diller Hotel. The place plainly does not care whether it's fashionable or not, but the hotel’s original wallpaper, a S…
1224 First Ave
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-467-4042
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-467-4042
Le Caviste
This Denny Triangle gem from Seattle wine mind David Butler serves up exactly the type of sidewalk bistro fare you might find yourself noshing on after a long …
1919 Seventh Ave
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-728-2657
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-728-2657
Maximilien
A few steps past the fish-throwing insanity at Pike Place Market, you’re greeted in French in a dim, quiet room, its walls covered in antique mirrors, its view…
81 Pike St Suite A
Pike Place Market
206-682-7270
Pike Place Market
206-682-7270
The Showbox
The Showbox is a great place to see a show, even when it's sold out. There's hardly a bad sight line in the house; it's got two bars; and the room has the clas…
1426 First Ave
Downtown Seattle
206-628-3151
Downtown Seattle
206-628-3151
Barolo Ristorante
It’s really all about the happy hour at this upscale Denny Triangle Italian restaurant, because it becomes a little too pricey otherwise. During these non-peak…
1940 Westlake Ave
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-770-9000
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-770-9000
Tankard & Tun
Tankard & Tun is Pike Brewing's newest adjoining restaurant and oyster bar, complete with a brew deck and an expanded fermentation cellar. The name is derived …
1415 First Ave
Pike Place Market
206-622-6044
Pike Place Market
206-622-6044
Temporarily Closed
The Pike Pub at Pike Brewing Company
Despite the swarms of tourists encircling its Pike Place Market location and the mountains of beer kitsch inside their bar, locals should be visiting this land…
1415 First Ave
Pike Place Market
206-622-6044
Pike Place Market
206-622-6044
Il Bistro
At Il Bistro, hidden under Pike Place Market, the old-fashioned-ness is marvelous—the ceilings are low, the arches are original, the bar is marble, and the ros…
93-A Pike St
Pike Place Market
206-682-3049
Pike Place Market
206-682-3049
Matt's in the Market
Matt's is an intensely pleasant place to be, overlooking the Pike Place Market with views of the big clock and glinting slices of the Sound—there aren't too ma…
94 Pike St
Pike Place Market
206-467-7909
Pike Place Market
206-467-7909
Athenian Inn
The food is nothing to write home about, but it's worth shoving your way through the Pike Place Market tourists gawping at fish to get to the old-school, unfan…
1517 Pike Pl
Pike Place Market
206-624-7166
Pike Place Market
206-624-7166
Long Provincial Vietnamese Restaurant
From the owners of the enormously popular Tamarind Tree, Long is another, fancier Vietnamese spot. “Long” is pronounced laong—it’s Vietnamese for dragon. The J…
1901 2nd Ave
Pike Place Market
(206) 443-6266
Pike Place Market
(206) 443-6266