Ten really good restaurants and other eateries recommended by The Everygrey

Ten Restaurants and other eateries recommended by The Everygrey

1. 🇵🇭 Melissa Miranda made big waves in 2021, despite opening Musang at the beginning of an unforeseeably difficult year. Melissa charged ahead, turning the restaurant into a community kitchen at the start of the pandemic, and this month it won the accolade of Restaurant of the Year from Seattle Met.
2. 🦀 You’ve heard of the lobster roll, but Local Tide does one better and gives us hand-cracked Dungeness crab rolls. This Fremont restaurant started as a popup, and — fortunately for us — finally set up shop permanently over the summer.
3. 🥐 You can’t go wrong ordering at Temple Pastries. Their sourdough-focused products will surely inspire you to look at your old sourdough starter at home in a different light. The bakery offers a slew of savory and sweet goodies all made with hyper-local ingredients.
4. 🍛 Chef and owner Preeti Agarwal took over Pomerol a couple of years ago and adjusted the menu to play with the Indian flavors she grew up with. Eventually, after some pop-up Indian dinners, she transformed Pomerol into what is now Meesha 127.
5. 🍵 There can never be enough bubble tea. Taiwan Professional (TP) Tea opened in the Chinatown-International District in September with a bang, offering a BOGO deal that had a line around the block.
6. 🍦 Milk Drunk, an offshoot of the nearby full-service restaurant Homer, is the epitome of a family-friendly restaurant. Parents can get slushies with a dose of alcohol while their kids revel in soft serve. And if that wasn’t enough, they’ve got a whole slate of fried chicken sandwiches to indulge in.
7. 🌶 Seattle was lucky enough to welcome an outpost of the California-based Sichuan chain Chengdu Taste back in October. The restaurant has been proclaimed “the best Sichuan restaurant in America” by Serious Eats’ J. Kenji Lopez-Alt.
8. 🍜 Tyger Tyger is another Sichuan-inspired restaurant but this time with local roots. The business team behind Capitol Hill’s Lionhead — Garrett Doherty and Benjamin Chew — opened this neighborhood restaurant in the shadow of what was once Key Arena.
9. 🍝 The space formerly known as Bar Ciudad has been turned into an Italian restaurant by the restaurateur/entrepreneur behind oh-so-many local businesses. Marcus Lalario opened Mezzanotte over the summer and has been serving up northern Italian fare since.
10. ☕ Vietnamese coffee from one of the folks behind Pho Bac. Co-owner of Little Saigon’s Pho Bac Sup Shop Yenvy Pham plans to open Hello Em, a cafe specializing in Vietnamese roasts and snacks, in the new year. Hello Em will source its beans directly from Vietnamese farmers and offer a menu that includes a pressed banh mi and durian crepe cakes.