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Every May, the James Beard Foundation announces the latest winners of America’s most prestigious culinary awards. But there's no need to wait until they're announced to eat award-winning food from our region’s past honorees.
Cafe Juanita
Italian
Kirkland
cafejuanita.com
Kirkland has changed...
A carne asada spread for the table at Gordo Steak.
Image: Amber Fouts
On Mexican restaurant menus in the US, the term carne asada has come to mean all kinds of things, often involving marinades and heavy spicing. “But carne asada is...
Yasutaka Suzuki of Suzuki Sushi demonstrates how seriously Seattle takes its sushi.
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Seattle’s much-deserved stellar sushi reputation stems from its high-end icons, but what makes it most remarkable is the quality at every level. You can sit before...
Hungry for news? Welcome to our Friday Feed, where we run through all the local food and restaurant news this month—and maybe help you figure out where to eat this weekend.
It Finally Happened!
After many months of anticipation, Stevie’s Famous...
Once a quiet working-class Nordic-American neighborhood, Ballard is now a nightlife, shopping, and restaurant destination. Boutiques and cocktail bars line Ballard Avenue (home to one of Seattle’s few year-round farmers markets), and townhomes and high-rises have taken the place...
La Marea combines Pacific Northwest seafood with Mexican marisqueria culture.
Image: Amber Fouts
Magnificent seafood is as much our city’s brand as innovation, public radio, and our weird pride about not using umbrellas. But, until recently, we lacked many excellent dedicated seafood...
Tailor Kowis (left)and Courtney Johnson, cheese champions and founders of Street Cheese.
Image: Amber Fouts
Courtney Johnson knows that the correct cheese with which to make a root beer float is Winnimere, from Jasper Hill Farm; that she needs to pick...
Easy, quick, and—most importantly—good single-serve coffee.
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Justin Inahara considers it his job to take coffee seriously. In exchange, he hopes that his customers will not. He started Tanuki Coffee Roasters aiming to be the bridge between casual coffee...
Hungry for news? Welcome to our Friday Feed, where we run through all the local food and restaurant news this month—and maybe help you figure out where to eat this weekend.
Departed From This Dock
Budd Gould, the founder of the...
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The many meals I eat to compile guides to the city’s 50 best restaurants, best new restaurants, and top tasting menus for $100 or less give me a lot of time to notice the tiny details that can set a restaurant...
