Market Grill
Fresh fish, grilled to order and served right into your hungry hands, is not an easy thing to find for cheap downtown. Get yourself to the Market Grill, tucked…
1509 Pike Pl #3
Pike Place Market
(206) 682-2654
Pike Place Market
(206) 682-2654
Mee Sum Pastry
Pike Place Market is a jewel box, and Mee Sum Pastry is my favorite gem. The small take-out-only shop sells cheap Chinese eats: barbecue pork sticks, crab rang…
1526 Pike Pl
Pike Place Market
206-682-6780
Pike Place Market
206-682-6780
Ben & Esther's
The popular Portland-based vegan Jewish deli chain Ben & Esther's serves bagels (available with dairy-free schmears or as sandwiches with toppings lik…
907 E Pike Street
Seattle
Seattle
Cinnamon Works
This Pike Place scratch-bakery staple, which has been around over 35 years, features cookies, quick breads, muffins, rolls, and more and has plenty of gluten-f…
1536 Pike Pl
Pike Place Market
(206) 583-0085
Pike Place Market
(206) 583-0085
General Porpoise Doughnuts
Doughnuts here are made fresh daily with farm eggs and filled with seasonal jams, jellies, curds, and custards. There are classics like dark chocolate and vani…
1020 E Union St
Seattle
206-900-8770
Seattle
206-900-8770
Spice Box
The menu at this Indian restaurant includes samosas, pakoras, soups, salads, a special house curry with a spiced onion-based gravy, butter masala, rogan josh (…
1520 Broadway
Seattle
206-353-1699
Seattle
206-353-1699
Kastoori Grill
In the former 94 Stewart space, Nepalese sisters Bina and Sudha Bogati serve Nepalese, Tibetan, and Indian cuisine claiming to be the most authentic in Seattle…
94 Stewart St
Pike Place Market
206-973-3434
Pike Place Market
206-973-3434
Le Panier
Le Panier is a French-style bakery in Pike Place Market with pastries and sandwiches.
1902 Pike Place
Pike Place Market
206-441-3669
Pike Place Market
206-441-3669
Little Oddfellows
Restaurant and nightlife maven Linda Derschang (Linda’s, King’s Hardware, Smith, Tallulah’s) has taken over the space inside Elliott Bay Book Company that was …
1521 10th Ave
Seattle
206-323-1511
Seattle
206-323-1511
Pink Door
The light in the rosy dining room makes everyone look good, but it’s the outdoor deck with its Puget Sound view that draws giant crowds when the weather’s righ…
1919 Post Alley
Pike Place Market
206-443-3241
Pike Place Market
206-443-3241
Piroshky Piroshky
This Pike Place Market staple serves glorified Russian hot pockets, and they’re fucking delicious. They’ve got sweet and savory options. Of the sweet, it’s har…
1908 Pike Place
Pike Place Market
206-441-6068
Pike Place Market
206-441-6068
Hula Hula
Hula Hula is a tiki-themed drinking paradise: bamboo wainscoting, thatched roofing around the bar, pufferfish made into lamps, and surfboards etc. stuck to the…
1501 E Olive Way
Capitol Hill
206-284-5003
Capitol Hill
206-284-5003
Honest Biscuits
After several successful years selling his biscuits at farmers' markets around town, Art Stone has opened a brick-and-mortar location of Honest Biscuits, servi…
1901 Western Ave Suite E
Pike Place Market
206-682-7179
Pike Place Market
206-682-7179
Oddfellows Cafe + Bar
Created by bar maven Linda Derschang (of Linda's, etc.), Oddfellows is a crowd-pleasing Capitol Hill fixture. The space—a giant, high-ceilinged, beautifully be…
1525 10th Ave
Capitol Hill
206-325-0807
Capitol Hill
206-325-0807
Rubinstein Bagels
Many Seattleites scorn the city's dearth of quality bagels, but baker Andrew Rubinstein is aiming to change that with his bagel company Rubinstein Bagels, wher…
2121 6th Ave
South Lake Union
206-550-1666
South Lake Union
206-550-1666
Elliott's Oyster House
You can eat oysters on the half shell all year long, and Elliott’s shipshape, brass-railing bar (and lovely Sound-side outdoor deck during summertime) is just …
1201 Alaskan Way, Pier 56
Seattle Waterfront
206-623-4340
Seattle Waterfront
206-623-4340
Ivar's Acres of Clams
Old-timey jaunty-cap-wearer Ivar Haglund lives on as a local legend, and rightfully so—he once staged an octopus prizefight, and when a thousand gallons of syr…
1001 Alaskan Way
Seattle Waterfront
206-624-6852
Seattle Waterfront
206-624-6852
Nirmal’s
There’s a dearth of good Indian food in Seattle; after eight years in New York, I was spoiled. But Nirmal’s in Pioneer Square is nearly as good as what you fin…
106 Occidental Ave S
Pioneer Square
206-388-2196
Pioneer Square
206-388-2196