El Encanto makes Kirkland really feel an terrible lot like southern California.
Seattle now sports activities a plethora of lined and heated patios to increase out of doors eating into cooler months. However when our slim, wonderful stretch of summer time arrives, we wish foliage, atmosphere, and vitamin D—possibly a little bit of a water view, too.
Town abounds with nice alfresco spots. To pick a mere 25 of our favorites, we emphasised patio environment and meals or drinks we love. Additionally, there is a patio for every event, from large to hidden, celebratory dinners to crushing beers in flip flops. Our guides to rooftop patios and waterfront eating have some extra concepts as properly.
Future Primitive Brewing
West Seattle/Alki
The ferociously legit White Heart brewery now has a second taproom location with a beer backyard that faces Alki Seaside. To not point out 12 faucets, wine, cider, NA drinks, and decidedly non-NA slushies, plus snacks. An overhang supplies shade (however not an excessive amount of), heaters supply a lift on cooler nights. (Price noting: the unique Future Primitive additionally has a roomy patio.)
Flora Bakehouse
Beacon Hill
Don Lucho’s
Ravenna
This Peruvian spot has come a good distance since its meals truck days. It now occupies a vivid orange constructing on Roosevelt with a walled-in yard sufficiently big for 70 folks. It has heaters, some shelter, a TV, retro astroturf, even a neon “Don Lucho’s Patio Life” signal. The lomo saltado and pisco sours, although, are something however kitsch.
Captain Black’s
Capitol Hill
Marination Ma Kai: all this and nice meals.
Marination Ma Kai
West Seattle/Alki
There is a purpose this unmatched water-facing beer backyard exhibits up on each “greatest patio” checklist recognized to humankind. It is Marination’s signature meals—kalua pork tacos, aloha fries, loco mocos—in a counter service spot that is largely patio. And what a patio. Umbrellas and strings of lights festoon picnic tables; an expansive view of Seattle’s skyline supplies a backdrop. Cocktails and draft beer add to the festivities.
Ray’s Cafe
Ballard
Can Bar
White Heart
Nighttime vibes at El Sirenito.
El Sirenito
Georgetown
Fonda la Catrina’s little sibling subsequent door serves the identical caliber of Mexican meals with a give attention to mariscos, or shellfish. The fish tacos are a vacation spot unto themselves. So is the patio, a walled-off retreat crammed with string lights, mezcal drinks, and simply the correct amount of solar.
Bongo’s
Greenlake
Humble Pie
Capitol Hill
Chuck’s Hop Store
Central District, Greenwood, Seward Park
The trio of taproom beer outlets leaned into beer backyard setups, laborious, on the onset of the pandemic. Now an swath of outside seating and picnic tables is a part of the Chuck’s expertise. This method additionally contains dozens of tabs of top-tier craft beer, minimal onsite snacks, and a deep bench of nice meals vehicles. The latest location in Seward Park additionally does burgers, queso fries, and hen wings. Every location’s faucet checklist and meals truck schedule are on-line.
Agua Verde Cafe
College District
This barely haphazard little cafe on the Portage Bay shoreline has a threefold patio scenario: A lined solar porch-type space so open you may as properly be outdoors, an precise patio that seems to drift over the bobbing boats within the marina beneath, and the comparatively new Marina Cantina, a wholly separate patio downstairs alongside the water with its personal bar and devoted taco truck. The standard of the cocktails acquired a significant increase when Rumba and Inside Passage proprietor Travis Rosenthal took over a number of years again.
Rhein Haus
Capitol Hill
Want a patio the place you may make noise? Capitol Hill’s cavernous German-inspired beer corridor exports its full TV-watching, game-playing persona open air to a collection of lined and uncovered areas. The patio has seven TVs, an outside bar, varied heaters, to not point out video games and firepits. Faculty college students (and crowds) abound, given the proximity to Seattle College. However the big pretzels and platters of German-style sausage transcend common bar meals. Stroll-ins solely.
Mbar
South Lake Union
One in every of Seattle’s OG rooftops can get packed throughout prime time, and the density of individuals taking selfies usually obscures Mbar’s intrinsic charms. Particularly a patio filled with panoramic Seattle views, swings, and firepits. To not point out a menu of mezze, harra frites, and different Levantine-inspired fare. In case you’re simply right here for the drinks, the sumac popcorn makes for a superb snack.
Woman Jaye
West Seattle
Like every part else about this place, the small again patio is low-key and but so exact, it exceeds expectations. A mixture of solar and lined seating, a firepit, and the restaurant’s all-important smoker present backdrop for a menu of smoked meat maximalism and spot-on bourbon cocktails.
White Swan Public Home
South Lake Union
It is a bit laborious to search out this patio, hidden behind the Ocean Alexander Marina advanced. However when you do, a number of seating awaits, surrounded by bobbing boats. This charming seafood sibling to Matt’s within the Market and Radiator Whiskey serves up giant plates and sandwiches, to not point out oysters and the home signature, poutine-of-the-sea.
Citizen Collective
Queen Anne
The Roanoke Inn
Mercer Island
The historic tavern undoubtedly acquired with the instances: a collection of sturdy wooden cabanas line the big again backyard; each holds its personal desk, plus an overhead heater for cooler nights. Tables are first come, first served, and do not permit minors.
Place Pigalle
Pike Place Market
Pike Place Market is filled with patios, from the Pink Door’s leafy hideaway to the full-frontal water views down at Outdated Range. However this decades-old French bistro features a tiny patio that suspends you within the coronary heart of the market. White-clothed tables are first come, first serve. Scoring one throughout lunch is a win, simply earlier than sundown a full-blown triumph greatest with a spherical of vespers.
El Encanto
Kirkland
You’d swear this Carillon Level patio was airlifted from Southern California. It sits mere toes from Lake Washington, with deep, cushioned couches and plexiglass partitions that don’t waste one iota of view. However the cocktails and chef Gabriel Chavez’s guacamole with totopos and chile en nogada deserve as a lot consideration as the environment. No shock: in good climate, this place is a capital-S scene.
Stonehouse Cafe has an unobstructed view of Lake Washington.
Stonehouse Cafe
Rainier Seaside
The meals’s fairly fundamental, (with all day breakfast and a terrific in-house ice cream counter). However the out of doors area sings. The previous stone constructing, initially a filling station, packs loads of inherent attraction, plus a view of Lake Washington throughout the road.
Bottlehouse
Madrona
Il Terrazzo Carmine and Carmine’s
Bellevue, Pioneer Sq.
Reuben’s Brews
Ballard, Fremont
One might populate this checklist with brewery patios alone; nice out of doors area is as elementary to our native taprooms as IPA. Reuben’s Ballard flagship has an in-house (stationary) meals truck, and a wide range of out of doors seating configurations to match its vary of beer types. In the meantime, the brand new location in Fremont is extra compact, however simply as convivial because of a big beer backyard.
Oysters meet views on Westward’s patio.
Westward
Wallingford
One of many city’s most coveted waterfront patios attracts guests by boat, automotive, even kayak. Westward, a part of Renee Erickson’s Sea Creatures restaurant group, occupies a crescent of north Lake Union shoreline that provides each skyline views and a menu that pulls on seafood from up and down the Pacific coast. Out of doors seating (waterside tables; Adirondack chairs beneath umbrellas) is walk-in solely.
