The 7 Most Underrated Restaurants Throughout Seattle

If you last in Seattle , your favorite neighborhood eating place is … well , it ’s probablya teriyaki lieu . Or a pho position . But there ’s also a decent luck that the pokey , relatively out - of - the - way place ( likeTilth , Revel , Red Cow , etc . ) you love is go by a big - name chef – or is a ducky of the local intellectual nourishment media – and draw in diners from all around The Town … and in the process dwarf spots like the ones on our inclination here . Check out these seven great neighborhood restaurant you probably have n’t been to , but totally should .

Mai Thaiku

The original Thaiku – and its apothecary - themed bar Fu Kun Wu , whichEsquirecalled one of the best bar in America – was a Ballard mainstay that was pull to shutter in 2012 , only to reopen a year later in a fresh ( " Mai " ) much modest blank space , where it now manages to slip almost totally under the radar , but where you’re able to still down traditional , bright flavour Southeast Asian eats , and creative cocktail , which are just asFu Kuning practiced as they were at the quondam place .

Brunswick & Hunt

So you want to unfold a " farm to neighborhood " eating place ? Here ’s how it ’s done : first pick an out of the way corner of a ' hood already packed with keen patch , preferably one that doubles as thecity ’s best drinking ' hoodif potential , then move into a construction that already houses some of the city ’s most dear spots ( Delancey , anyone ? ) , so that no matter how much good military press you get when you open you wo n’t quite turn into the kind of place mass get across the metropolis for , even though say tripper would be worth it for classic American eats that promise to be like pretty much everyone from Seattle … " prissy without being fancy . "

El Camino

So this place isn’ttechnicallyunderrated , as anyone you postulate about it will only have bully matter to say about it . It ’s more like this venerable Mexican spliff in the shadower of Fremont ’s iconic roquette is in earnest look out on . possibly because it ’s on an queer block behind one of the ' hood ’s most popular bars . Or because the aforementioned Revel is just a couple of blocks in one focal point , while one ofIron Chef - winner Maria Hines ' blot is a block in the other . Or perhaps it ’s been around so long that it ’s somehow faded into the ground of Seattle ’s constantly changing food scene . Whatever the reason , it ’s too bad , ‘cause not only is El Camino ’s barthe best place in the city to celebrate your birthday , the eating house is sodding for anything and everything else … first date , day drinking on the back patio , or just eating pleasant-tasting Oaxacan food made with Northwest Ingredients .

Lloyd Martin

LM is the quintessential Seattle neighborhood restaurant : it ’s a footling hard to get to ; it ’s helmed by an accomplished and modern chef who allow seasonal , local ingredients to inspire his constantly interchange menu ; and you get decidedly upscale intellectual nourishment for way less than it ’d cost Downtown or in Capitol Hill . sound great , right ? So how does it manage to fly under the radar ? Well , since this is Seattle , Ethan Stowell has a pop eating house not too far away , not to mentionone of the good new restaurants in the citylast year is two pulley-block away , and a badly dear Mexican establishment is just a block or so further . And that ’s just for appetiser .

Mondello

It is one of the best Italian restaurants in the metropolis . It is dead charming thanks to a recent hick makeover . And it literally serves family recipes made by factual phallus of the family as often as not . And you ’ve never been there . Hell , you may not have even try of it , thanks to its remote location in the middle of Magnolia Village … but now you know , so there ’s no excuse not to examine the ravioli Marsala , or the Carbonara , etc . , like , today .

Kisaku

One of a handful of bars / restaurants enshroud by on a strip there ’s no way you ’d even come across by fortuity , and no doubt overshadowed as a terminus for outsiders by the nearby Elysian outpost – as well as the Burgundian ’s breakfast and beer operation down the street , and the Seattle Dog - slinger around the niche – this underrated cutting seafood junction is worth finding , even though you ’ll start the very real risk of getting lose and winding up wandering the oddly veer streets between Green Lake and the freeway perpetually .

Cafe Munir

So far away in the northern end of Ballard it ’s basically in Blue Ridge , or maybe Crown Hill ( who knows ? ! ) , this sorcerous little Lebanese restaurants serve up elegant but surprisingly low-cost modest shell featuring mainstays like hummus and chicken skewers , plus unique dish ( behind - roast beets in tahini , and footing lamb with herb & bulgur wheat ) you probably did n’t even know you could get in Seattle – since we ’re betting you never even knew about this place … despite the fact that it ’s servingone of the 50 things in Seattle you want to eat before you buy the farm , and pouring over 100 whisky from behind the cake . Sign up herefor our everyday Seattle email and be the first to get all the food / drink / fun in townsfolk .

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