Tomo is a new Seattle restaurant for casual fining dining

Tomo is Seattle’s new casual dining restaurant for fine dining

The new Tomo restaurant in Seattle serves the best ingredients from the Pacific Northwest and Japanese flavors in a pleasant atmosphere

Tomo is a new Seattle restaurant offering the cuisine typically associated with fine dining – think microseasonal local dishes – in the friendly, neighborhood hangout atmosphere.

The kitchen

The restaurant, which already has over a thousand waiting lists, offers a constantly changing five-course menu that emphasizes ingredients from the Pacific Northwest and is heavily influenced by Japanese techniques and flavors.

Dishes include delicious Chawanmushi egg with Tropea onions; Pork collar with kohlrabi and sea lettuce; and albacore with sansho pepper and caramelized onions. It’s a food that is experimental without polarizing, ideal for those who enjoy the small plate experience but without the shirttails.

The interiors

This relaxed demeanor is reflected in Tomo’s interior, which was designed by Seattle and Amsterdam-based studio Graypants.

The space, like the food it serves, takes northwest materials and filters them through a Japanese sensibility. Wood felled in Washington’s forests fills the room, from the walls to the tables and chairs, with much of it tinged with deep ebony in homage to the Japanese practice of Shou Sugi Ban (where the wood surface is charred) .

Textures are combined, with a wall of scale-like shingles running parallel to a wall of vertical ash slats. The lighting is subtle and intimate, integrated into the architectural elements such as the wall panels, the benches and the bar shelves.

“I love the way the space expands and contracts,” says Brady Williams, Tomo’s founder and former head chef at Seattle’s famous 1950s Canlis restaurant. “There are both intimate zones and areas where guests can spread out and let go.”

“The interior of the restaurant not only helps to draw attention to the food and to put it in the limelight, but also creates a real warmth and comfort for the guests – it is a place where you want to spend an evening. And that was definitely our goal as a restaurant, to be a goal for people to want to stay. ‘

Whether it’s the food, the atmosphere, or both that make you want to linger, Tomo is almost sure to please you. It’s worth staying for the lighting alone, which, as Williams puts it, “is extremely flattering – everyone looks great here”. §

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