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Bamboo Garden Szechuan Restaurant				Write a Review
202 106th Pl. N.E.	Chinese	$$	Bellevue
Looking as if suburbia had finally colonized the bamboo-forested rebel camp in House of Flying Daggers, Bamboo Garden does Szechuan food the right way, bringing out its intricate spiciness. Chengdu hand-shaved noodles float in a tingly sesame-paste-thickened broth redolent of Szechuan... More >>

Bistro Turkuaz				Write a Review
1114 34th Ave.	Mediterranean, Middle Eastern	$$	Leschi & Madrona
Turkuaz is a funny little restaurant, owned by a mother-daughter team, with a French-boudoir decor, a bare-bones wine list, and the best Turkish food in town. If the different combinations of eggplant, peppers, mint, and, above all, yogurt—tart, unctuous, and dolloped on every... More >>

Branzino				Write a Review
2429 2nd Ave.	Italian, Seafood	$$	Belltown
Branzino's made for Belltown, with its approachable, affordable Italian food; umber walls and high-backed booths perfect for couples and winter nesting; and service so good it makes waiters all around town look like lazy, overly casual cows. (Let's just leave it at that.) The kitchen stays... More >>

Brasa				Write a Review
2107 Third Ave.	French, Mediterranean, Spanish	$$$	Belltown
Brasa’s ocher dining room, with its curves and mezzanines and showcase bar, may get you in the mood to spend money. Chef Tamara Murphy cooks as epically as her surroundings, imbuing her meats with the smoke of her wood-fired oven and celebrating the marvelous powers of olive oil. If you're... More >>

Cafe Campagne				Write a Review
1600 Post Alley	French	$, $$	Downtown
Caf� Campagne is devoted to French bistro cooking the way Amy Winehouse is devoted to eyeliner: visibly, avidly, with shades of the ridiculous. Yet the cafe is more than a studious recreation of a Parisian resto. It's a warm, echt-Seattle restaurant that holds its own in the romance department... More >>

Cafe Yarmarka				Write a Review
1530 Post Alley	European	$	Pike Place Market
Stop by this market stall during a slow moment and you'll spot the women who run it nimbly folding trays' worth of pelmeni (tiny meat-stuffed dumplings). The baked piroshki get rewarmed in the microwave, so pass them over in favor of dumplings or stuffed cabbages like that woman in your... More >>

Carmelita				Write a Review
7314 Greenwood Ave. N.	Vegetarian	$$$	Greenwood & Phinney Ridge
Although it's hard to remember a time when "vegetarian food" was code for brown rice, beans, and blandly seasoned tofu, Carmelita'a gourmet fare—cauliflower crepes smothered in parsnip cream, pizzas with red-onion marmalade, fontina, and chile oil—is still a reminder of how far... More >>

Cascina Spinasse				Write a Review
1531 14th Ave.	Italian	$$$	Capitol Hill
Spinasse casts the glamour of a period drama. It's not just the wood-plank tables bordered by high-backed chairs, and not just the bar, which doubles as a pasta-making station, complete with antique pasta-making tools. Even the menu evokes a traditional way of life ‹in the Piedmont region... More >>

Catfish Corner				Write a Review
2726 E. Cherry St.	Soul Food, Southern	$	Central District
Seeing as it's about the only restaurant in Seattle that specializes in catfish, and seeing how catfish is an item of far more succulence than, say, tofu, Catfish Corner has developed a loyal following since it first opened in 1985. Thankfully it doesn't skate by on its rep, as a buttery, moist... More >>

Chang Ahn Jung Restaurant				Write a Review
33100 Pacific Hwy S # 5	Korean	$	Federal Way
Tiny, bare-bones Chang Ahn Jung's reputation has barely spread beyond Korean foodies, but its food is good enough to warrant a peak-oil trek to Federal Way and back. (One critical warning: The restaurant's sign is mistransliterated "Jang An.") What makes this place so much better than Korean... More >>

Circa				Write a Review
2605 California Ave. S.W.	American, Bar Food	$	West Seattle
It's standing room only at West Seattle's favorite miniature alehouse; this place is almost always packed, whether you go on Friday night for the fabulous French fries or for a Sunday brunch of Hawaiian sweet-bread French toast. It's the kind of place where if you ask the bartender for a food... More >>

The Corson Building				Write a Review
5609 Corson Ave. S	Pacific Northwest	$$, $$$	Georgetown
Over the course of 18 months, Sitka & Spruce founder Matt Dillon and Wylie Bush gutted a gorgeous Spanish revival building under a highway overpass to create a urban-rustic restaurant that aspires to be a center for Seattle's food community. The communal dinners that fund their enterprise range... More >>

Crush				Write a Review
2319 E. Madison St.	Pacific Northwest	$$$	Madison Valley & Madison Park
Jason and Nicole Wilson's Madison Valley restaurant is like the high-school beauty queen you wanted to hate but couldn't, because she was too genuinely nice. The renovated 1903 house, done up in white-on-white modernity, is beautiful; the restaurant itself is wildly popular. Chef Wilson's food... More >>

Curry Leaf Indian Cuisine				Write a Review
12821 SE 38th Street	Indian	$	Bellevue
You can get channa masala and Kashmiri naan at 20 places in Seattle, but for a rare taste of Keralan dishes like fried cassava with fish in a coconut-milk curry, you'll have to drive to this all-pink strip-mall restaurant in Bellevue. Look over the "specialties" and "combos" sections of the... More >>

Dahlak Eritrean Cuisine				Write a Review
2007 S. State St.	Ethiopian	$	Rainier Valley
A reconfigured strip joint (no joke), Dahlak exudes the air of a private club: a bit cliquey, a bit hidden, set back from the street. The perfumed room, often hazy with the smell of frankincense burned during the traditional Eritrean coffee ceremony, is awash in spice. So are dishes like zegni... More >>

El Paisano Rosticeria y Cocina				Write a Review
9615 15th Ave. S.W.	Mexican	$	White Center
Not surprisingly, Rosticeria y Cocina El Paisano, which is owned by the butcher shop two doors down, specializes in meat. Its Mexican-style roast chickens vary from crackling-skinned to dry, depending on how long they've spent out of the oven and under the heat lights. Uniformly fantastic: tacos... More >>

FareStart Restaurant				Write a Review
700 Virginia St.	American, Pacific Northwest	$	Belltown
Now in bigger, fancier digs, FareStart serves tasty lunches cooked by rigorously trained homeless or formerly homeless chefs. The lunch menu has the basics—turkey sandwiches, burgers, and fish and chips—but also ranges upscale with entrees like seared scallops over beluga lentils. Its... More >>

Flying Squirrel Pizza Co				Write a Review
4920 S. Genesee St.	Pizza	$	Rainier Valley
Musician Bill Coury quit his day job to focus not on music but his other obsession. His family-friendly pizza joint looks like it was lifted straight from the Ave, with walls painted harlot red, thrift-store abstracts, and a guitar-heavy soundtrack. Coury's 15-inch pies—from the simple... More >>

Gabriel's Fire				Write a Review
2408 N.W. 80th St.	Barbecue	$	Ballard
Gabriel Slimp serves his barbecued meats just as God and man intended: naked (with sauce on the side). You want to pay attention to how his brisket and ribs turn out, with their shiny black crust, red smoke ring just underneath, and tender but not mushy flesh, with all the fat and collagen... More >>

Green Leaf				Write a Review
418 Eighth Ave. S.	Vietnamese	$	International District
When searching for pho, it often seems like you're forced to choose: flavor or looks? This sleek, intimate restaurant has both—if they didn't print the ridiculously low prices on the menu, you could take any champagne-tastes date there. Vegetables are cut into crinkled batons, soups come in... More >>

Harvest Vine				Write a Review
2701 E. Madison St.	Spanish	$$$	Madison Valley & Madison Park
Whippersnappers dealing in small plates dot the Seattle landscape like chicken pox, but Joseba Jimenez de Jimenez, a native of Spain's Basque country, has been at it his entire culinary life. Dishes like the confit-stuffed squid with apple and black rice defy a point of reference while echoing... More >>

How to Cook a Wolf				Write a Review
2208 Queen Anne Ave. N.	Pacific Northwest	$$	Queen Anne
Ethan Stowell's third restaurant looks like a cross between a cigar box and a sauna, and not much bigger than either. It's a casual neighborhood joint for people who enjoy hanging out in tiny, refined spaces and are comfortable ordering off a menu that refuses to define itself in courses. A meal... More >>

Jade Garden				Write a Review
424 7th Ave. S.	Chinese	$	International District
If you can stand the body crush in the lobby, this Hong Kong-style restaurant is the place to go for dim sum. Dozens of delights, a good mix of tradition and novelty, circle the room: The pastry around the shrimp-and-onion balls crumples at the touch; the barbecued pork buns have the texture of... More >>

Joule				Write a Review
1913 N. 45th St.	French, Korean	$$	Wallingford
You have probably never tasted anything like what Rachel Yang and Seif Chirchi are cooking at Joule, their Wallingford restaurant: Black beans and pulled pork stewed together with ginger and miso. A fist-sized grilled poussin (basically a tween chicken) brushed with sweet chili sauce and served... More >>

The Kingfish Cafe				Write a Review
602 19th Ave. E.	Southern	$	Capitol Hill
Southern restaurants are typically hit-and-miss affairs. Since opening in 1996, this funky-chic cafe has been a hit, complete with a line out the door, even during full-on rainstorms. That's because the Kingfishers recognize that Southern food should be soul food, not a gourmet experience. And... More >>