Best bets for Seattle Restaurant Week

Once an annual promotion that only highlighted high-end restaurants, the current version features a variety of locations, cuisines, and price levels, from organic Afghan food in Tukwila to fine dining in the Eastside.

As the format expanded to include family-style meals and different budgets, as well as weekends, the promotion has evolved to encompass much more of Seattle’s food world, including small caterers that offer take-away like Fremont’s Soul, and naturally shared meals in Ethiopian restaurants such as Kaffa and Delish.

The Seattle Restaurant Week website also helps guide people to places that reflect their own values, including “Eat Local First,” an award that shows places that buy local ingredients and Envirostars for businesses that work to “improve their positive environment”. Impact ”wherever they are in the process.

With so many options for one great meal and only 28 meals to use them for (one lunch and one dinner each on the 14 days), here’s a guide to help you find the best meals, specials, and hidden ones Find treasures on the list.

Great for a group meal: skalka

Since opening almost two years ago, Skalka has concentrated its broad Eastern European café menu on a single focus: Khachapuri, the doughy Georgian bread boats with hearty fillings that are famous on Instagram. The restaurant week menu follows this example, but lowers the price. For either two or five khachapuri, you only pay $ 10 per boat (oddly enough, with the $ 35 option, you still only buy three). For $ 50, you can try one of five filling options – adjaruli with cheese, butter, and soft egg yolks; Chicken; Beans with bacon and chillies; Stroganoff; and vegetables.

Lobster rolls from the Edmonds, Washington market.

Courtesy of The Market via Yelp

Best deal downtown: Market Seattle

Restaurant Week is the perfect opportunity to visit the brand new outlet of Edmonds’ popular cult lobster roll supplier. The $ 50 dinner option includes the famous sandwich along with a dessert and appetizer of your choice from a menu of oysters, shrimp okonomiyaki, clam soup, and halloumi cheese.

Try a local favorite: Cafe Munir

North Ballard residents already know this Lebanese spot as an easy spot for kids, a cute date spot, and a place with an affordable, amazing whiskey list. The Restaurant Week menu is an easy excuse to explore this corner of town and provides a guide to the restaurant’s seasonal gems. Choose three of their mezze, including the local pears in tahini and the toasted kabocha with caramelized onions, pine nuts, and crispy onions. For the main course, choose the Shish Tawook for the simple but excellent chicken skewers, or the Mudardara for a vegetarian rice and lentil dish.

Buy dinner in cake form: Grayseas Pies

Order in advance for Tuesday pickup from this pop-up pie supplier. Owner Gracie Santos bakes her Filipino heritage into a 5 “mini dinner pot pie filled with chicken adobo and a 5” mini cassava langka pie for dessert, filled with yuca and jackfruit. Pickup is Tuesday evening from El Mercadito South Park Farmers Market in South Park.

Yoroshiku Miso Salmon Roll

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Eat out, make a deal and stay safe: Yoroshiku

This Japanese location in Wallingford has one of the best COVID facilities with shared mini outdoor spaces for each group to protect from the weather and your neighbors. Plus, the $ 35 dinner option offers three courses with a choice of sustainable bluefin tuna, wild mushrooms, or Wagyu beef as a starter and one of nine ramen as a main course – including gluten-free and vegan bowls. The $ 50 goes into an extra ramen with Wagyu steak, bluefin tuna, and shaved black truffles.

Get a Little Bit of Everything: Karachi Cowboys

The $ 35 dinner at this Texas-meets-the-subcontinent spot on Capitol Hill starts with flavored popcorn and ends with dessert, but instead of a main course, diners choose a signature curry for their thali – a dinner platter that does too includes homemade cucumbers, chutneys, lemon rice, papadum and a stew.

Tower of Chengdu Wings, Sunny Bunny, Cornbread and Shakshuka by Nue

Gloria Jianmin M. on Yelp

Travel the world in one meal: Nue

The exception to the rule that any restaurant that seems to be doing too many things is likely to be, Nue offers flavors of specialties from around the world on a single menu. The Restaurant Week menu underlines this with the $ 35 menu, which in Ireland starts with Colcannon, Beirut with hummus or Syria with a kale and carrot salad. The second course travels to Trinidad for Curry-Channa and Aloo, Croatia for Cevapi sausages or Peru for Pollo a la Brasa. For dessert you can choose between a Danish dream cake or a Persian pistachio baghlava.

Ethiopian-American fusion cuisine with injera rolls from WUHA at Spice Bridge

Spice Bridge over Yelp

Something for everyone: spice bridge

The Spice Bridge Food Hall in Tukwila is actually made up of a number of vendors each running their own businesses, led by the Food Innovation Network. With five vendors attending Restaurant Week, it’s an excellent opportunity to drop by with friends or family and pick up food at two or three different locations to try a few different meals.

Since the sellers at the four stalls have changing days, you can’t try all five at the same time, but most days two, three, or four work at the same time. Try goat dibi with jollof rice and plantains or fish yassa with samosas from Afella Jollof Catering, or try chicken and palm nut soup with fufu and drinks from Taste of Congo.

Jazze’s offers a dumpling meal for two with their free-range cattle mantu in tomato sauce and garlic yogurt, plus salad and drinks, while Monique’s Hot Kitchen serves a Kenyan mashed potato and vegetable dish called mukimo, steamed cabbage and a choice of spicy beef or vegetarian samosa. Theary Cambodian rounds off the group with a large meal for two, including a Khmer salad with tamarind dressing and chilli oil paste, Me ga Tunk – a pasta dish with chicken and egg – and a combo plate with coconut chicken and stuffed chicken wings , and two meatballs as well as a side dish of rice, Khmer vegetable cucumbers and fresh herbs.