Best New Restaurants
Video: Best New Restaurants on KING5
Chelsea Lin talked about a few of her favorite restaurants on KING5's Evening show.
Have you checked out our best restaurants issue yet? Last night, our food editor Chelsea Lin talked about a few of her favorite places (and how we go about working on these annual issues) on King 5’s Evening show. Watch it below! Check out the rest of our Best Restaurants package here.
Best New Restaurants 2011
Just when you think you’ve got Seattle restaurants all figured out, a new batch opens.
We’re all about noise, fun and affordability, if you take the crowds packing the Brave Horse Tavern and Revel as evidence. But then the Madison Park Conservatory and the elegant Book Bindery come onto the scene to up the sophistication quotient. And don’t forget our never-ending love affair with pizza and burgers, food trucks and…
6 Food Trends We Love
From cocktails to pickles: the sharp, unabashed flavors Seattleites want now - and where to get them
Booze of the Moment: Tequila Don’t be like me. It took me years to recover from cheap-tequila-drenched trips to Mexico in college. And so I came late to the nuanced aromas of reposado, and I’m slowly exploring the smoky flavors of good anejo (they are pricey, after all). All over town, bartenders are harnessing the…
7 Restaurants to Watch
We have high hopes for these just-opened (and yet-to-open) eateries.
>>Modern comfort food (with menu consultation by Poppy’s Jerry Traunfeld!) makes Grace Kitchen at the U Village intriguing. Great food at the mall? Here’s hoping. >>Former Canlis chef and cookbook author Greg Atkinson will take the plunge later this year and open his first restaurant, Marché, on Bainbridge Island. Northwest bistro is the genre; seafood,…
Best New Restaurant Decor
Our new crop of restaurants is reversing the overdone Ikea-meets-thrift-store trend with eye-catchin
Staple & Fancy’s wall with an old cigar advertisement (see photo above): When crews were renovating Ballard’s historic Kolstrand Building, they unearthed a painted sign proclaiming a former tenant as a “dealer in Staple & Fancy.” Though those words are on the second floor of the building, Ethan Stowell named his newest restaurant after the…
The Next Wave of Tastemakers, 2011
A roster of men and women who are poised to become the Seattle dining scene’s next notable names.
Neil Robertsonpastry chef The man whose subtlety with flavor and illustrious stints at both Canlis and Mistral Kitchen made him Seattle’s biggest name in pastry, left his post at Mistral Kitchen earlier this year to go out on his own. But he’ll be back soon: Robertson (here, munching on one of his specialties, the French…