Pacific Northwest Tasting Menu · Queen Anne · James Beard Outstanding Restaurant, James Beard Best Chef Northwest
The Canlis family has been running this mid-century glass house above Lake Union since 1950, and the five-course $180 tasting still ends with the Peter Canlis Prawns and the original Canlis Salad the ...
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Archipelago
Filipino-American Tasting Menu · Beacon Hill · James Beard Outstanding Chef Semifinalist 2026
An 8-seat counter where chef Aaron Verzosa builds 10-12 course tasting menus around Pacific Northwest ingredients filtered through Filipino American technique. Each course traces a personal exploratio...
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Sushi Kashiba
Japanese / Sushi · Pike Place Market
Shiro Kashiba's flagship omakase counter next to Pike Place Market. The dean of Seattle sushi works pristine fish with traditional Edomae technique. The benchmark sushi experience in the Pacific North...
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Altura
Italian · Capitol Hill
Chef Nathan Lockwood's Capitol Hill tasting room builds a weekly-changing multi-course menu around Northwest produce through an Italian lens. Wine pairings run alongside each course. The menu never re...
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Cafe Juanita
Italian · Kirkland · James Beard Best Chef Northwest (Holly Smith)
Holly Smith's Kirkland cottage is the Eastside's most quietly serious Italian room — wild boar ragù, seasonal game off the woods, a proper Italian cheese course, and a pasta program that treats Northe...
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Sushi by Scratch Restaurants
Japanese / Omakase · Belltown
Phillip Frankland Lee's 16-course omakase format in downtown Seattle. The chef's menu moves through seasonal nigiri, sashimi, and cooked courses in a fixed progression. No menu, no choices — just a lo...
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The Herbfarm
Pacific Northwest · Woodinville
A Woodinville institution built around a nine-course themed tasting menu that changes with the season — foraged ingredients off the property and the surrounding woods, paired wines course by course. E...
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Cascina Spinasse
Italian · Capitol Hill · James Beard Semifinalist
A Piedmontese restaurant on 14th Ave that takes Northern Italy seriously — tajarin al ragù pulled by hand, agnolotti del plin, brasato al Barolo, and the Piemontese beef tasting if you came to commit....
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The Corson Building
Farm-to-Table · Georgetown · Resy Hit List 2026
Emily Crawford Dann cooks a single multi-course dinner each night out of a converted 1910 house on Corson Ave — seasonal vegetables, heritage grains, wood-fired bread, all turned out with a foragers-a...
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Ray's Boathouse
Seafood / Fine Dining · Ballard · Seattle's Best Seafood - Seattle Magazine
A Shilshole Bay seafood institution looking onto Puget Sound and the Olympics. Sustainable Northwest fish, local produce, and a Northwest wine list with real depth. The waterfront benchmark for Seattl...