Watertown Coffee I just moved to an apartment off 12th Avenue. Among my first orders of business were finding a neighborhood bar, a neighborhood coffee shop, and a neighborhood bar or coffee shop where I could play ping-pong. Watertown Coffee is all of the above. On a street that has suddenly blown up, Watertown is one of its main selling points. These guys open for coffee and stay with you through last call, boasting a menu of boilermakers (Poor Boy = tall Pabst and Evan Williams, Danny Boy = Guinness and Jameson) alongside vegetarian fare like quesadillas, mac & cheese, and gut-busting nachos that make even a dedicated carnivore beg for mercy. CHRIS KORNELIS 550 12th Ave., 860-4118,watertowncoffee.com. $ FIRST HILL
Wild Ginger Located across the street from Benaroya Hall, Wild Ginger reigns as the city's premier pan-Asian restaurant. Spacious, sophisticated, and darkly lit, with two lounges for those without reservations, it works as a place to take a date or your parents. While everything is elegantly prepared, from Chinese-style duck to lemongrass chicken to satays and noodle dishes, the Thai curries are especially refined, spicy but not overpowering. The seafood Thai noodles, with sprawling squid tentacles and clams in the shell tucked amid fat pasta sheaths, are the ultimate in Asian comfort food. NINA SHAPIRO 1401 Third Ave., 623-4450,wildginger.net. $$ DOWNTOWN
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"Here in Seattle, we've got it all. We've got the talent. We've got the product in spades. Revolutionary spirit? In some neighborhoods in this town, you can't chuck a rock without hitting some white-jacket with grill scars on his arms and a new restaurant opening in a former gas station or converted Airstream trailer."
Read Seattle Weekly food critic Jason Sheehan's intro to "Our Favorite Restaurants 2010" here.
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Zippy's West Seattle's Highland Park neighborhood is so starved for non–7-Eleven dining options that the owners of Zippy's could have taken to serving cold, unsweetened oatmeal out of its tiny storefront and there would have been lines out the door. Instead, the nearly two-year-old, nostalgia-thick hole-in-the-wall serves arguably the best burgers in the entire city, not just the peninsula (and yes, there are lines out the door). Tiny as its physical space may be, Zippy's has cool photos of old burger barns adorning its walls, and offers a slew of vintage sodas, shakes, and malts to wash down the beef. MIKE SEELY 7573 S.W. Holden St., 763-1347, zippysgiantburgers.com. $ WEST SEATTLE
