Zig Zag Cafe
The Zig Zag, tucked away on the stairs below Pike Place Market, serves very fine cocktails. The atmosphere is nice but not at all stuffy, with favorable lighti…
1501 Western Ave
Pike Place Market
206-625-1146
Pike Place Market
206-625-1146
Palace Kitchen
Hands down the best of Tom Douglas’s 436 Seattle restaurants, the Palace Kitchen will please both out-of-town visitors and jaded locals. It’s a longtime (since…
2030 Fifth Ave
Belltown
206-448-2001
Belltown
206-448-2001
Quinn's Pub
The people behind Restaurant Zoe created this Capitol Hill gastropub, offering (relatively) affordable, prettied-up versions of country foods people have been …
1001 E Pike St
Seattle
206-325-7711
Seattle
206-325-7711
Pink Door
The light in the rosy dining room makes everyone look good, but it’s the outdoor deck with its Puget Sound view that draws giant crowds when the weather’s righ…
1919 Post Alley
Pike Place Market
206-443-3241
Pike Place Market
206-443-3241
Country Dough
A meal at Cheng Biao Yang’s tiny sliver of Pike Place Market involves a cascading set of choices. Do you want a crunchy grilled flatbread sandwich? Or the thic…
1916 Pike Place #14
Pike Place Market
206-728-2598
Pike Place Market
206-728-2598
The Tin Table
The Tin Table is upstairs in the Oddfellows Building at Pine and 10th, in a dim, private-feeling space. The menu has a little bit of everything: pasta, fish ta…
915 E Pine St, Second Floor
Seattle
206-320-8458
Seattle
206-320-8458
Oddfellows Cafe + Bar
Created by bar maven Linda Derschang (of Linda's, etc.), Oddfellows is a crowd-pleasing Capitol Hill fixture. The space—a giant, high-ceilinged, beautifully be…
1525 10th Ave
Capitol Hill
206-325-0807
Capitol Hill
206-325-0807
Lark
After 12 years on 12th Avenue, beloved Seattle restaurant Lark moved into an expansive new space in the nearby historic Central Agency building in December 201…
952 E Seneca St
Central District
206-323-5275
Central District
206-323-5275
Canon
Jamie Boudreau’s Canon has dark upholstery, an antique cash register, a bar stained with Angostura bitters (on purpose), and such an extensive and beautiful li…
928 12th Ave
Capitol Hill
206-552-9755
Capitol Hill
206-552-9755
Licorous
Licorous is the restaurant Lark's femme little sister, and the advice to ladies of yore preparing to go out—get completely dressed, then remove one acces…
928 12th Ave
Central District
(206) 325-6947
Central District
(206) 325-6947
Plum Bistro
Plum Bistro is a pleasantly upscale, 100 percent vegan restaurant. Even for a lifelong vegetarian, a visit to Plum can feel like a taste-test in a laboratory o…
1429 12th Ave
Capitol Hill
206-838-5333
Capitol Hill
206-838-5333
Ba Bar
You can get yourself fed—with the one of the city’s best bowls of pho, no less—from the morning till the wee hours at this stylish Vietnamese mini-chain, with …
550 12th Ave
Central District
206-328-2030
Central District
206-328-2030
Tavern Law
From the gentlemen of Belltown’s well-reputed, extremely popular Spur Gastropub, Tavern Law is an upscale cocktail lounge with a vigorous speakeasy theme (incl…
1406 12th Ave
Capitol Hill
206-322-9734
Capitol Hill
206-322-9734
Good Bar
Another new addition to Pioneer Square, Good Bar’s name implies what its menu hopes to deliver: simple, straightforward food and classic cocktails. Wine and be…
240 Second Ave S
Pioneer Square
206-624-2337
Pioneer Square
206-624-2337
Central Saloon
This is Seattle's oldest bar, and it knows how to party.
207 First Ave S #1
Pioneer Square
206-622-0209
Pioneer Square
206-622-0209
The Coterie Room
The Coterie Room is an official Big Deal, and it looks marvelous with its impressive crystal chandelier and lush wall of living plants. A large mirror on one w…
2137 Second Ave
Belltown
206-956-8000
Belltown
206-956-8000
C. C. Attle's
Every bear's favorite bar—known for drinks strong enough to put hair on your chest—is back and probably better than ever in the former home of Cafe Metropoli…
1701 E Olive Way
Seattle
206-726-0565
Seattle
206-726-0565
Skillet Capitol Hill
The Capitol Hill outpost of Skillet diner offers breakfast, lunch and dinner, each good. People go crazy for the gargantuan cinnamon roll, the "Serious Toast" …
1400 E Union St
Capitol Hill
206-512-2001
Capitol Hill
206-512-2001
