Primo
Primo is a pizza place located in the most beautiful room in town—gorgeous domed ceiling, a sparkling chandelier, detailed dark woodwork, pretty pillars. The h…
1106 Eighth Ave
First Hill
206-547-7466
First Hill
206-547-7466
Union Square Grill
A snug little bar below street level where the staff is ultra professional and the clientèle is mostly professional, too. And it's a good meeting point for ACT…
621 Union St
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-224-4321
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-224-4321
Rhododendron
The Rhododendron Cafe is the full-service restaurant and bar located within The Inn at Virginia Mason. They offer breakfast and brunch, lunch, dinner and drink…
1006 Spring St
First Hill
206-223-7654
First Hill
206-223-7654
Dunbar Room
The revamped, century-old Sorrento Hotel has swapped out the dimly lit Hunt Club restaurant for the lighter, brighter Dunbar Room. The menu, by chef Seth Caswe…
900 Madison St
First Hill
206-343-6156
First Hill
206-343-6156
Fireside Room at Sorrento Hotel
Bring a date (or your grandparents) and sink into the inviting and timelessly opulent lounge inside the classic Sorrento Hotel. Many things here are tasseled a…
900 Madison St
First Hill
206-622-6400
First Hill
206-622-6400
Lotus Asian Kitchen & Lounge
Across from Vito’s—where the First Hill Bar & Grill finally retired after 34 glorious, divey years—Lotus is brought to us by Ridgley Kuang, owner of Green Leaf…
901 Madison St
First Hill
206-623-6333
First Hill
206-623-6333
Daawat Indian Grill and Bar
I’m a deep lover of Indian food, but I live in a city that only has a few decent Indian restaurants. And the closest of these to my place of work on Capitol Hi…
820 Pike St
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-467-7272
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-467-7272
Quarter Lounge
The Quarter Lounge is more dusky than dark and as warm as wood.
909 Madison St
First Hill
206-332-0772
First Hill
206-332-0772
Temporarily Closed
Vito's Restaurant & Lounge
After a sad absent spell, Vito’s reopened in the fall of 2010, returned to its old-school Italiano-style glory by Hideout/Vital 5 maestro Greg Lundgren, with d…
927 Ninth Ave
First Hill
206-397-4053
First Hill
206-397-4053
Vessel
Note: Vessel has reopened in a new location. Vessel is a cutting-edge lounge in an otherwise dead-at-night section of downtown (save for the nearby 5th Avenue …
1312 Fifth Ave
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-652-0521
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-652-0521
The Hideout
The art bar that makes the best drinks, covers the walls (literally) in local art, and leaves sketchbooks on the bar for the idle drinker, founded and run by G…
1005 Boren Ave
First Hill
206-903-8480
First Hill
206-903-8480
The Terrace at the Fairmont Olympic Hotel
If you're going to drink on a rainy, awful afternoon, the lobby bar of the Fairmont is an excellent place to do so. Cost precludes visiting too frequently or …
411 University St
Pike Pine Retail Core
621-1700
Pike Pine Retail Core
621-1700
Tap House Grill
Despite the beer/respect mission, the Tap House Grill seems all too aware that its expense-account/tourist demographic is largely lager-dependent and taste-ave…
1506 Sixth Ave
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-816-3314
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-816-3314
TRACE
Replacing the W Hotel’s Earth & Ocean—which produced such chefs as Lark’s Johnathan Sundstrom, Brian McCracken and Dana Tough of the Coterie Room/etc., and Mar…
1112 Fourth Ave
Downtown Seattle
206-264-6000
Downtown Seattle
206-264-6000
