Recommended Hawaiian/Polynesian & African/Pan-African/Moroccan Restaurants near Seattle

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
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Meskel

Meskel stands out among the sea of Ethiopian restaurants with an atmosphere unlike any other—or rather, three atmospheres. In the main restaurant, on the upper…
2605 E Cherry St
Central District
206-860-1724
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Marination Ma Kai

Marination’s brick-and-mortar location at the Alki water-taxi dock (“ma kai” means “near the sea” in Hawaiian) has all the island-fusion favorites familiar to …
1660 Harbor Ave SW
North Admiral
206-328-8226
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Bananas Grill

The bad news is the Link’s Columbia City Station needs more restaurants. The good news is that the two located next to it don’t suck. One of these, Bananas Gri…
4556 Martin Luther King Jr Way S
Rainier Vista
206-420-4839
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Koa

The University District is packed with cheap eats for cash-strapped students, but one of the most underrated and soul-soothing options might lie within Koa, a …
4754 University Way NE
Northeast Seattle
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Ma'ono

In Hawaiian, “ono” means “delicious,” and “ma” is a prefix that means going toward, facing, or making. Ma’ono in West Seattle is the reincarnation of the marve…
4437 California Ave SW
Junction
206-935-1075
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Safari Njema Restaurant

Chef Jane Kagira runs Safari Njema, serving food from across the continent in Kenya. Kagira works magic with the Indian-influenced spices woven into Kenya’s cu…
5041 Rainier Ave S
Rainier Valley
206-723-3058
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Afrikando Banadir

Fans of departed so-nice-they-named-it-twice Afrikando Afrikando, rejoice: Chef Jacques Saar is back, in the former Banadir space on Rainier, close to downtown…
5212 Rainier Ave S
Rainier Valley
206-448-5183
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Kauai Family Restaurant

The most authentic Hawaiian food in town—loco moco, Spam musubi, poi, saimin, plate lunches/dinners, macaroni salad—is found in a strip mall in Georgetown, and…
6324 Sixth Ave S
Georgetown
206-762-3469
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Ramen Ramen

This new ramen pop-up from Sam Choy’s Poke to the Max cofounder Max Heigh is operated out of a food truck in the parking lot of the Hawaiian restaurant's Raini…
5300 Rainier Ave S
Hillman City
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Marination Mobile

Marination Mobile’s shiny truck roams all over the city bringing Hawaiian-Korean food to the people. If you want to sit down (and have a beer) with your Marina…
Various locations
Northgate
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Jebena Cafe

Jebena already leads the highly competitive race for best Ethiopian restaurant in town based solely on the merits of using the freshest ingredients, the best c…
1510 NE 117th St
North Seattle
206-365-0757
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Pai's Food Truck

More street food! Pai’s offers Thai-Hawaiian lunch plates that represent chef Pai Pongsupaht's “Thai-born, Hawaiian-raised” background. Consider: thuli thuli c…
various locations
Seattle
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