Seattle for foodies

Best restaurants

Seattle rewards the eater who plans the day around the water and the appetite around the season. The list below runs from the oyster counter downtown to the pier where clams have been served since long before the viaduct came down, and it takes in a Georgian kitchen a block off the courthouse, a Brazilian churrascaria on University, and a pizza window that opens at 04:00 for the shift-change crowd. Twelve places, twelve postcodes' worth of Seattle at street level, verified against OpenStreetMap and the operator's own site so the door is where we say it is and the kitchen is open when we say it is. It is a working list, not a bucket list: pick the one nearest whatever you are already doing that day, walk in on the hour it opens, and let the room decide the rest. Downtown, Pioneer Square, First Hill, the waterfront, the Convention Center block. No cliches, no photo-ops, no dishes anyone has to pretend to like.