Town Hall Seattle
Town Hall is a fantastic organization that hosts book talks and lectures, and more rarely concerts and podcasts recordings, for very low prices—usually $5. Cur…
1119 Eighth Ave
First Hill
206-652-4255
First Hill
206-652-4255
Fireside Room at Sorrento Hotel
Bring a date (or your grandparents) and sink into the inviting and timelessly opulent lounge inside the classic Sorrento Hotel. Many things here are tasseled a…
900 Madison St
First Hill
206-622-6400
First Hill
206-622-6400
Temporarily Closed
Vito's Restaurant & Lounge
After a sad absent spell, Vito’s reopened in the fall of 2010, returned to its old-school Italiano-style glory by Hideout/Vital 5 maestro Greg Lundgren, with d…
927 Ninth Ave
First Hill
206-397-4053
First Hill
206-397-4053
Vessel
Note: Vessel has reopened in a new location. Vessel is a cutting-edge lounge in an otherwise dead-at-night section of downtown (save for the nearby 5th Avenue …
1312 Fifth Ave
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-652-0521
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-652-0521
Purple Cafe and Wine Bar
Heavy Restaurant Group (Lot No. 3, The Commons, and Barrio) owns four Purple Cafe and Wine Bars, all of which feature an impressive global wine selection (over…
1225 Fourth Ave
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-829-2280
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-829-2280
Frye Art Museum
For decades, the Frye, founded in the early 20th century by a Seattle meat-packing family, was a sleepy place full of gilt frames and orthopedic shoes. In rece…
704 Terry Ave
First Hill
206-622-9250
First Hill
206-622-9250
Daniel's Broiler
This new location of the classic Northwest steakhouse on the second floor of the Hyatt Regency serves its signature USDA prime steaks and seafood to the sounds…
808 Howell Street
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-596-9512
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-596-9512
Harried & Hungry
H&H has soup, salad, sandwiches, and pizza that you can order online and pick up at their downtown café, or have it delivered. They also cater breakfasts and l…
1415 3rd Ave
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-264-7900
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-264-7900
La Cocina Oaxaquena
Filling the space of that pho place across from Machiavelli that was always sadly empty, La Cocina Oaxaquena is much less so, probably due to its reportedly go…
1216 Pine St
Capitol Hill
206-623-8226
Capitol Hill
206-623-8226
Andaluca
Andaluca's decor is generic-upscale-intimate (dark wood, low ceiling, not-too-heated flamenco music, and so forth), but fine Spanish-influenced food and remark…
407 Olive Way
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-382-6999
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-382-6999
Seattle Art Museum
Seattle's largest art museum was founded in the 1930s by a collector of Asian art. Today most of the Asian collection is housed at the Asian Art Museum in Volu…
1300 First Ave
Downtown Seattle
206-625-8900
Downtown Seattle
206-625-8900
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
La Lot Restaurant & Bar
La Lot is named after the betel leaf used in the generally delicious, cigar-shaped beef la lot and elsewhere in Vietnamese cooking. While the restaurant is on …
925 Stewart St #102
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-682-8812
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-682-8812
Relish Burger Bistro
The burger bar inside the Westin, where Coldwater Grill used to be, wants to get away from “the stigma of the hotel restaurant.”
1900 Fifth Ave
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-256-7600
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-256-7600
Fonte Cafe & Wine Bar
Across from the Seattle Art Museum downtown, Fonté has the feel of an upscale chain with its pearl-toned leather banquettes and contemporary sleekness, but it'…
1321 First Ave
Seattle Waterfront
206-777-6193
Seattle Waterfront
206-777-6193
Knee High Stocking Co.
Knee High Stocking Co. is a tiny bar on Olive Way that's a speakeasy, but, you know, with a liquor license. There's no sign, and reservations (by text message …
1356 Olive Way
Capitol Hill
206-979-7049
Capitol Hill
206-979-7049