Restaurant Reviews - Seattle Met

Chef Garrett Melkonian is an eager innovator inside the kitchen of one of Seattle’s grandest restaurant spaces.

From the good folks who brought us Matt’s in the Market and Radiator Whiskey comes a waterside pub (and summertime hangout) along the docks of South Lake Union, which treats seafood as robustly as Radiator treats meat.

The new French-Japanese Mount Baker restaurant strikes a tricky balance between ambitious dining and the sort of casual neighborhood hang Seattle so enjoys.

It's the year's most savvy switch-up.

The screaming value on the high-end cuts of meat is one of many reasons to visit this Mexican steak house.

Chef Edouardo Jordan cemented his fine-dining cred at Salare, but his second restaurant is far more personal.

Chef Jason Wilson serves seasonal, slightly homey fare in an aggressively stylish space.

In the heart of Amazonia, 2120 proves winning plates and corporate crowds aren’t mutually exclusive.

Chef Maximillian Petty returned home from Austin to open a house of romance and crispy pig head candy bars atop Queen Anne.

Matt Dillon demonstrates clever restraint in this gorgeous ode to Northwest abundance.

And the lines outside this new dumpling shop is a sign of things to come for West Seattle.

From the grandiose imagination of Kurt Beecher Dammeier (Bennett’s, Beecher’s Handmade Cheese) comes this big bilevel beef house on happy hour row.

Mamnoon’s burgeoning restaurant empire has a lofty new jewel in its crown.

Even the offbeat meats taste great at Greenwood’s newest destination.

A night at Bizarro Italian Cafe and the unending allure of the neighborhood restaurant.

A hit of Paris here in Seattle, J.J. Proville's new L’Oursin glows with pendant lights and Parisian signs.

Belltown's latest beer bar is a new kind of geeky.

This month’s favorites: all things melted cheese, from Swiss-style raclette to a quesadilla full of smoky intrigue.

Ma‘ono chef Mark Fuller is the guy behind the menu of updated honey pecan prawns, barbecued pork, and the best General Tso’s chicken to ever come in contact with disposable chopsticks.

The Wallingford newcomer is just the latest evidence that Heavy Restaurant Group knows how people actually want to eat.

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There Is Nothing Subtle About Dumplings of Fury

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Above All, Mbar

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L’Oursin Brings French Seafood—and French Sensibilities—To the Central District

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What We're Eating Now: March 2017

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Thackeray Knows How to Please a Crowd