Restaurant Reviews

Server Tabitha Steger chats with Catherine Landers (l) and Becca Fuhrman as they discuss their order at Queen City in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood Thursday, January 10, 2019.

Linda Derschang has taken over Queen City, one of the city’s oldest bars, in Belltown. She is the latest owner to attempt to breathe new life into what is possibly Seattle’s oldest bar. Derschang has a string of successful neighborhood joints to her credit. She’s brought Queen City back to the basics with a short, mostly well-executed bar food menu that is geared for drinkers but skews lighter and fresher than most. She’s also added some irony to a handsome room that even after a recent overhaul still evokes the early 1900s.

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January 17, 2019 at 6:00 am

Linda Derschang, restaurant whisperer, gives Seattle’s Queen City a royal makeover VIEW

In her bid to make what may be Seattle’s oldest bar newly relevant, Derschang brings style, star quality and 25 years of experience running neighborhood...

Chef Emme Ribeiro Collins prepares the Escabache Baiano using a whole Branzino fish from Greece.
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January 10, 2019 at 6:00 am

Alcove Dining Room: Brazilian food, with a side of samba

Chef Emme Ribeiro Collins has re-imagined Tempero do Brasil, her parents’ restaurant on University Way in Seattle.

Sichuan Pork Dumplings made with chili oil, cilantro and sesame at Plenty of Clouds, on Capitol Hill.

January 3, 2019 at 6:00 am

Seattle Times restaurant critic ranks her 20 Best Bites of 2018 VIEW

Noodles, fritters, dumplings, soups and heaping towers of shellfish: It was a year of great eating in and around Seattle.

The vegetable zalfrazi at Mani’s

Mani Chhetri’s former restaurant on Capitol Hill, Indian Express, closed and reopened as Mani’s Kitchen in North Seattle. Specializing in Indian, Nepalese and Tibetan cuisine. Photographed December 13, 2018. 208705

December 20, 2018 at 6:00 am

Mani’s Kitchen: Vibrant curries and soul-restoring Himalayan food in Seattle’s Pinehurst neighborhood

Mani's menu — with specialties from India, Nepal, Bhutan and Tibet — traces the unusual journey of the husband-and-wife team who opened this welcome addition...

At Poquitos in Bothell, they offer enchiladas suiza with chicken, served in a cast iron skillet. 208644

December 13, 2018 at 6:00 am

Poquitos has a spacious new Bothell branch. Here’s how the food stacks up VIEW

The margaritas are strong, and the décor has the jaw-dropping panache you'd expect from serial restaurateurs James Weimann and Deming Maclise. But the food is...

Located on Seattle?s Lake Union, Birch offers a chef’s 7-course tasting menu that constantly rotates to highlight the bounty and seasons of the Pacific Northwest, such as this tagliatelli.

December 6, 2018 at 6:00 am

On Seattle’s Lake Union, Birch has a view that dazzles, crisp service and a tasting menu still finding its way

The $80, seven-course tasting menu at this weekends-only restaurant is not as remarkable as it should be for the price.

November 23, 2018 at 6:00 am

Epic Middle Eastern food at Beacon Hill’s Homer worth the odyssey of scoring a table VIEW

At Homer, a two-month-old Middle Eastern/Mediterranean restaurant, Logan Cox (formerly of Sitka & Spruce) is weaving all kinds of culinary magic.

At the new downtown restaurant Patagon, the menu is full of Argentinian offerings. Chef deCuisine Stephen Moore turns a whole half of lamb, slow roasting for 8 hours on the Parilla, in the restaurant’s open air grill. 208410

November 15, 2018 at 6:00 am

Patagon: Chimichurri your way to deep South America via this new Seattle restaurant VIEW

Argentine asado is at the heart of this ambitious restaurant in the new Charter Hotel, where chefs adroitly manipulate the fire of the parrilla.

In Bucco al Lupo restaurant offers Capellini Pomodoro con Polpette in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018. 208298

November 8, 2018 at 7:00 am

Fremont’s In Bocca al Lupo: Warmth, romance, but pizzas not yet up to par VIEW

The focaccia, not even listed on the menu, was an unexpected delight at this remake of Fremont's Via Tribunale, which also starred in warm, attentive...

Shack burger — a single cheeseburger with lettuce, tomato and ShackSauce for $5.69 — and crinkle fries available at the Shake Shack on 2115 Westlake 2115 Ave. in Seattle. Shot Monday, October 29, 2018.

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November 1, 2018 at 6:00 am

Is Shake Shack really all that? Seattle Times food writer tries the hamburger chain for the first time VIEW

After all the hype and delays, it’s finally open, right in the middle of Amazonland — what it's like to stand in Shake Shack's giant...

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