City: Seattle, WA
Category: Restaurants
Address: 411 15th Ave. East (Capitol Hill)
City: Seattle, WA
Category: Restaurants
Address: 171 S. Jackson St. (Pioneer Square)
33. Pair
City: Seattle, WA
Category: Restaurants
Telephone: (206) 526-7655
Address: 5501 30th Ave. NE (North)
Description: Pair is a sweet restaurant with a warm ambience that makes you feel part of the neighborhood. The European-inspired fare is created with ingredients from local farms, and the menu changes seasonally. Inspiring the name, Pair is known for its beautifully paired wine list. Chef-owner Felix Penn lives upstairs with his wife, Sarah. The small plate menu includes dishes such as braised rabbit, cinnamon roasted lamb, duck confit, and an excellent selection of cheeses and salads. A specialty of the house is the natural beef brisket, served with scallions and a horseradish crème fraîche.
34. Rover’S
City: Seattle, WA
Category: Restaurants
Telephone: (206) 325-7442
Address: 2808 E. Madison (Central)
Description: French chef and owner Thierry Rautureau visited Seattle and Rover’s in 1987 and discovered that the restaurant was for sale. He promptly bought it, moved to Seattle, and began serving his unique menu of locally sourced Pacific Northwest food, prepared with traditional French techniques and accents. Rautureau, known as the Chef in the Hat for his ever-present fedora, is a James Beard Award winner who trained in his home country. He is passionate about using local ingredients that are sustainable, organic, and seasonal, changing the menu daily to accommodate this supply. To complement the incredible food, Rover’s offers a wine list that reads like War and Peace, with more than 500 labels from both classic wine regions and lesser-known gems.
35. Tilikum Place Cafe
City: Seattle, WA
Category: Restaurants
Telephone: (206) 282-4830
Address: 407 Cedar St. (Central)
Description: This European bistro in Belltown is a favorite spot for brunch, serving delectable house-made pastries, Dutch baby pancakes with apples, and the signature baked beans with toast and fried eggs. But Tilikum also serves a great lunch and dinner, offering an assortment of meat and seafood dishes as well as an always-inspired cheese and charcuterie board, which no self-respecting European bistro would be without. The light streaming through the wall of windows makes this one of the lightest, cheeriest places to dine in Seattle. Don’t miss the homemade desserts.
36. Delicatus
City: Seattle, WA
Category: Restaurants
Telephone: (206) 623-3780
Address: 103 1st Ave. South (Central)
Description: Built in the style of a traditional European delicatessen while incorporating Northwest resources, Delicatus is a sustainable, cross-cultural success story. It was founded in Pioneer Square on the simple premise that people in Seattle deserve a better sandwich, with ingredients that are purchased directly from local farmers and artisans. The daily menu ranges from classic pastrami and corned beef to house-cured salmon lox and duck confit. Table service, takeout, and catering are available.
37. I Love New York Deli
City: Seattle, WA
Category: Restaurants
Telephone: (206) 381-3354
Address: 93 Pike St. (Central)
Description: This authentic New York–style deli in the Pike Place Market hearth-bakes its bread daily, including four types of rye. This fresh-baked bread ensures some of the best sandwiches around, stacked high with a variety of sliced hot and cold meats. Just try to finish one—they’re huge. The menu is also loaded with comfort food like chicken soup and matzo balls, as well as New York staples such as bagels, lox, knishes, chopped chicken liver made from an old family recipe, and kosher frankfurters from Brooklyn. A second location in the University District is located at 5200 Roosevelt Way NE.
38. Take 5 Urban Market
City: Seattle, WA
Category: Restaurants
Telephone: (206) 420-8104
Address: 6757 Eighth Ave. NW (North)
Description: A full-time chef’s team on-site provides a wide selection of fresh foods each day, to take away or eat at the counters: hot and cold sandwiches, salads, and soups, as well as daily dinner specials and desserts. Take 5 is also, as the name says, a small market where you can buy dairy products, beer and wine, bread, fruits and vegetables, and other groceries. It’s a little like a clean, light-filled New York bodega.
City: Seattle, WA
Category: Restaurants
Address: 1919 Post Alley (Central)
City: Seattle, WA
Category: Restaurants
Address: 222 Mercer St. (Central)
41. Bastille Café & Bar
City: Seattle, WA
Category: Restaurants
Telephone: (206) 453-5014
Address: 5307 Ballard Ave. NW (North)
Description: Bastille is dramatic, resplendent, bombastic—a visual feast for the eyes. Against a black and white canvas rises a clock that once adorned a Paris metro station, French flea market light fixtures, 19th-century cathedral sconces, black ironwork, and a 45-foot zinc bar. The back bar once graced a Seattle mansion, and pendants salvaged from a local school line the walls. The space has been reinvented in what was once the Obermaier Machine Works, up to the rooftop garden where lettuce and herbs are grown for the kitchen. The result is a special place to enjoy plats du jour such as boneless quail, fricassée de poulet, and braised lamb shank.
42. Café Campagne
City: Seattle, WA
Category: Restaurants
Telephone: (206) 728-2233
Address: 1600 Post Alley (Central)
Description: This casual, inexpensive bistro is a bohemian alternative to its big sister, Campagne Restaurant, and is truly a little slice of the cafe culture of Paris. It’s casual yet romantic, with an excellent wine list and terrific weekend brunch. Try the poached eggs en meurette, with bacon and champignons in a red wine and foie gras sauce. Typical French bistro fare populates the dinner and lunch menus, from croque monsieur and burger d’agneau (lamb), to a cassoulet stew with lamb and duck. House-made sausage and salmon gravlax are special, and the cafe offers prix-fixe meals that are an excellent value. For a more sophisticated evening, visit Campagne Restaurant upstairs.
43. Chez Shea
City: Seattle, WA
Category: Restaurants
Telephone: (206) 467-9990
Address: 94 Pike St. (Central)
Description: Another romantic French option in the Pike Place Market, Chez Shea is perched atop the market with arched windows overlooking the views, and candlelit tables. The contemporary French recipes are made with Northwest ingredients such as Alaskan sablefish and Hudson Valley foie gras, resulting in dishes like the roasted squab and pan-seared fish. As popular as the restaurant is Shea’s Lounge, where guests may order small plates a la carte or choose the three-course prix-fixe menu, which is a great value.
44. Feierabend
City: Seattle, WA
Category: Restaurants
Telephone: (206) 340-2528
Address: 422 Yale Ave. North (Central)
Description: You’ll feel like you have been transported to a biergarten on the Rhine. This lively neighborhood tavern serves 18 imported German brews on tap, served in the appropriate glass for each style of beer—a distinction that beer purists will appreciate. Hearty plates of weiner schnitzel and bratwurst and sauerkraut, as well as dreamily soft Bavarian pretzels, are on the menu, but there are also some surprising items like deep-fried pickles and a stuffed portobello mushroom. Feierabend is for those 21 and older; no minors allowed.
45. India Bistro
City: Seattle, WA
Category: Restaurants
Telephone: (206) 783-5080
Address: 2301 Market St. (North)
Description: Situated on a busy corner in Ballard, this cozy spot is rich in hearty, sauce-based northern Indian dishes such as masalas, curries, and vindaloos. A full tandoori menu is also available and ingredients that make up the dishes include chicken, lamb, seafood, and full vegetarian options. A second location in North Seattle is located at 6417 Roosevelt Way NE.