OK, so next month, we’ll be re-visiting this once-grand city to house sit for Wahine’s brother. We have a list of old favorites to hit, but we have an open slot or two for something new.
I won’t bore anyone with the old places. But please, de-emphasize the $$$ places–we like unpretentiousness.
Thanks!
I’m not a fan of Seattle dining in general (need to be selective) but have really enjoyed Chicken Supply (fried chicken with Filipino influences), Spinasse (Piemonte regional cuisine), Walrus and the Carpenter (great oysters, other small seafood plates) and Phocific Standard Time (mostly a cocktail bar with some small dishes; cocktails use a lot savory ingredients from the pho shop downstairs; has won national plaudits; pho shop downstairs is nothing special).
For excellent cocktails and an excellent spirits collection (not to mention good small plates) cannon bar is a great option. The only negative is that it tends to be full of tech bros trying to decide which $500 pour of bourbon they should select. Bartenders are great with many good NA options made in house.
I don’t know how you feel about Kenji but he has tons of reviews of Seattle restaurants on his IG and most of them make me want to go there.
My hot take on Walrus: yes, oysters and champagne are delicious, nice atmosphere, etc but if you want to leave satiated, it’s going to cost you. Applies to most ‘small plates’ restaurants, less of a problem if it’s just the 2 of you but I’m so over trying to share 6 bites of food between 4 people.
Anyway, two places I haven’t tried yet but are on my radar:
And this Thai place on QA was pretty good, they have some less-common dishes:
What neighborhood will you be in?
In Seattle for the Easter weekend. Well, Wednesday though Sunday. It was our anniversary.
We schlubbed it with the exception of Daniel’s Broiler (unremarkable–our two $50 gift certificates made it affordable). It was bittersweet in that the Virginia Inn was closing due to landlord greed.
In no particular order:
Virginia Inn
Loretta’s Nothwesterner
Five Spot
George’s Deli
Sully’s Snow Goose
Lucky Chinese
Petit Pierre Bakery
Maggie Bluff’s
S/T Hooligan’s
Seattle’s downtown core is vacant, a burned out shell. The streets are in bad repair.
