The peach–mango pie is a must-try dessert at Jollibee. | Jollibee The Philippines-based chain has two other Washington locations, in Tacoma and Tukwila Contributing to the deluge of fried chicken joints taking over in Seattle lately, Filipino fast-food chain Jollibee will at last be opening first its Seattle restaurant next weekend. Hot on the heels of its Tacoma Mall opening in October 2023, the nation’s newest Jollibee will be moving into Rainier Valley Square, at 3820 Rainier Avenue South, alongside the Safeway. This is a separate location from the one at Southcenter Mall, which opened back ..read more

You're gonna need some beautiful food to go with all that beautiful wine In the southwest corner of the state, Walla Walla is the hub of Washington’s wine country. With the highest concentration of wineries in the Pacific Northwest — more than 120 — and some of Washington State’s oldest wineries, the Walla Walla Valley has long been established as a popular tourist destination. Walla Walla is a place to relax, to learn the history of this charming city, to enjoy its nearby vineyards and the world-class wines they produce, and to immerse oneself in the natural beauty of the Palouse surrounding ..read more

Suzi Pratt The three-time James Beard Award nominee will end service — for now — in late June Greenlake’s finest-dining restaurant is moving on to greener pastures (we hope). On Monday, Eight Row announced that its last service in its current location will be June 29, adding a promise to sprout up in another location eventually. “Our lease is set to expire,” the social media post read, “and we’ve decided that the next chapter will unfold in a new home — one that better expresses our concept and aligns with our vision. We have no set timeframe for this transition.... Rest assured, we will be ba ..read more

With their innovative Vietnamese menu at Ramie, the Nguyen siblings hope to share their nostalgic childhood memories. | Ramie Trinh and Thai Nguyen’s newest restaurant will add global flair to Vietnamese classics One of Seattle’s buzziest restaurant openings is about to happen on Capitol Hill next week. Ramie, the newest contemporary Vietnamese destination by chef siblings Trinh and Thai Nguyen, will begin dinner service on May 22. Named for an edible plant in the nettle family, the restaurant will take over the space at 14th Avenue and East Pine Street that was recently vacated by Omega Ouzer ..read more

Petit Plateau. | Alex Jackson Previously home to pizzeria Bar Solea, the ground-level space at 1st and Marion has been restyled to showcase Seattle’s second-to-none Pacific Northwestern shellfish When chef Brendan McGill closed Bar Solea at the end of 2023, he called it a hibernation instead of a permanent departure. Sure enough, the celebrated local chef and restaurateur has now revived the ground-level space in the landmark Exchange Building as an oyster-centric bar called, fittingly, Oyster Cellar. It’s a logical change in direction from his previous pizza focus at Bar Solea. Seattle has a ..read more

Even Hey Bagel’s plain bagels are anything but plain. | Hey Bagel Andrew Rubenstein is selling bagels in Seattle again, but not at Rubenstein Bagels Andrew Rubinstein is coming back to Seattle. Last week the bagel maker best known for founding Rubinstein Bagels — and then walking away from it — announced that he’d signed a lease for a new bagel shop in University Village, which is bound to become one of the hottest destinations for Seattle’s many gluten fans. It’s a little surprising that Hey Bagel, Rubinstein’s new venture, is coming west of Lake Washington. Last year he sold his stake in his ..read more

App companies like DoorDash oppose a Seattle ordinance requiring them to pay workers more. | Getty Council President Sara Nelson wants to revise a controversial ordinance that has upset restaurants, delivery apps, and some drivers The head of the Seattle City Council is moving quickly in an attempt to revise a controversial law that critics have blamed for high fees on food delivery apps. This week Council President Sara Nelson introduced a proposed ordinance that would decrease the minimum amount apps like DoorDash and Uber Eats are required to pay their workers, in an effort to encourage the ..read more

The exterior of 419 Occidental Avenue, where the restaurants will be located. | Chris J Roberts Photography The chef behind the Walrus and the Carpenter is going big in 2025 One of Seattle’s most celebrated and prolific restaurateurs plans to make a big splash in Pioneer Square: Renee Erickson’s Sea Creatures group, which you may know from such restaurants as the Whale Wins and Bateau, plans to launch not one, not two, but three new restaurants at 419 Occidental Avenue, part of the Railspur development. Erickson, a James Beard Award–winning chef, has owned restaurants since 1998, when she boug ..read more

Shoo Loong Kạn, a hot pot chain from Sichuan, China, is coming to Bellevue. | Jack X. Li The new location in an Eastside development is a “future flagship location” for the chain Bellevue has landed a lot of national and international chains in the past year, from Milk Bar to Daeho to Sui Wah Seafood to Asian grocery heavyweight T&T. Now there’s going to be yet another massive, bring-the-whole-sales-team-or-the-whole-family restaurant in downtown Bellevue: Shoo Loong Kan, a hot pot chain originating in China’s Sichuan province, is arriving to West Main. West Main is a gigantic development ..read more

A Dough Joy Everything Bagel doughnut. | Harry Cheadle Plus, a highly anticipated restaurant opens in Fremont, and more news of the week One of the emerging trends of 2024 is burgeoning Seattle restaurateurs opening second or third locations of their businesses. To wit: This week Dough Joy, a vegan doughnut shop with locations in West Seattle and Capitol Hill, announced on Instagram that it would be opening a third spot in Ballard. It’s been a quick rise, pun intended, for the plant-based, yeast-raised doughnut shop. Christopher Ballard and Sean Willis started it as a truck in 2021, followed t ..read more