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
Off The Rez
Off the Rez is a food truck serving frybread (naked or with honey, or cinnamon sugar, or homemade lemon curd...), Indian tacos (chili verde, 10-hour-smoked pul…
Traveling
Pike Pine Retail Core
Pike Pine Retail Core
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
Wild Rye Cafe Bakery
The pastry chef at Wild Rye, Alex Shroff, used to be the pastry chef at the Herbfarm. The bakery serves light breakfast and lunch items—muffins, quiche, sandwi…
806 Pike St
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-694-5049
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-694-5049
Dough Zone Dumpling House
Dough Zone specializes in juicy Chinese dumplings like xiao long bao (tender little meatballs and a puddle of broth encased in a delicate wrapper), q-bao (fat,…
815 Pine St
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-682-6666
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-682-6666
Monorail Espresso
Someday we'll all get around on self-driving Solowheels and pay for coffee with chips implanted in our brains. But let's resist that time for a little longer. …
520 Pike St
Pike Pine Retail Core
422-0736
Pike Pine Retail Core
422-0736
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
Trophy Cupcakes
Trophy amps up the cupcake indulgence factor by piling on lots of tasty frosting and offering a variety of flavors (rotating every day of the week and every se…
600 Pine Street
Pike Pine Retail Core
206.632.7020
Pike Pine Retail Core
206.632.7020
Belle Epicurean
The beloved bakery has opened its own coffee cart in the 4th and Madison building.
925 Fourth Avenue
Downtown Seattle
Downtown Seattle
Piroshky Piroshky
The beloved Pike Place pastry purveyor's new location in Century Square features a glass pastry case with all sorts of sweet and savory baked goods on display,…
1501 4th Ave
Pike Pine Retail Core
Pike Pine Retail Core
Xi'an Noodles
Beloved no-frills noodle destination Xi'an Noodles, which has gained a loyal following in University District for its hand-pulled biang-biang noodles, has open…
400 Pine St
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-522-8888
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-522-8888
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
Top Pot Doughnuts
Top Pot’s got 40 kinds of lusty, busty, rich doughnuts approved by President Barack Obama, and the cafes are comfortable triumphs of design. Also: good drip co…
720 Third Avenue
Downtown Seattle
206-454-3694
Downtown Seattle
206-454-3694
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
Piroshki on Third
The piroshki—savory pies, filled with things like chicken, cabbage, rice, and mushrooms, as well as potatoes and cheese—here are wonderful. But the borscht—a h…
710 Third Ave
Downtown Seattle
206-322-2820
Downtown Seattle
206-322-2820