The Market’s greater than 75 restaurant choices make it onerous to select what to eat, however Miss Café’s Turkish meals is all the time a good selection.
The cobblestone streets, slender alleyways, and coated corridors of Pike Place typically swell with crowds, drawn to the historic market, certain, but in addition to the meals. Greater than 75 eating places and meals stalls lie inside Pike Place Market; the place is supposed to overwhelm you with choices. Ones that vary from highest-tier dinners worthy of a special day to native lunch counter favorites—and sufficient walk-around snacks to maintain you full for the remainder of the day. Listed here are our favourite spots to eat at inside and round our metropolis’s coolest, most dynamic (and sure, most tourist-filled) establishment.
Sit-Down Eating
Café Campagne
Seattle’s equal of Paris café tradition perches on Put up Alley. Chef Daisley Gordon does proper by basic dishes—quiche, pan-roasted hen, oeufs en meurette—and instills in his kitchen the form of perfectionism that renders even the only asparagus salad or brunch-time brioche French toast memorable. The patio embraces one other hallmark of Parisian café tradition: watching all of the individuals go by.
Matt’s within the Market
A eating room hidden on the second flooring may as nicely be the market’s culinary epicenter—collegial by day, elegant by night time, and fiercely beloved by locals. Proprietor Dan Bugge’s market tenure dates again to his days as a fishmonger/thrower downstairs, however chef Matt Fortner stewards the Northwest menu (and restores a Matt to the premises for the primary time for the reason that days of founder Matt Janke).
Radiator Whiskey
Matt’s within the Market’s sibling tavern throughout the corridor is all about darkish wooden and playful meat flexes. Roasted bone marrow (served historically or as a luge) and fried pig ears share menu house with brisket, fried pork shank, and a spectacular fried hen sandwich. Nice for dinner, or only a barrel-aged drink and a plate of entire hen wings.
Sushi Kashiba
Seattle sushi legend Shiro Kashiba is the explanation individuals queue up for a spot on the 14-seat sushi bar and maybe essentially the most pristine sushi expertise Seattle has to supply. When you’re extra into reservations than lengthy waits, the eating room gives the identical omakase menu because the counter, plus basic Shiro dishes a la carte.
The Pink Door
A signless entrance in Put up Alley results in a cavernous theatrical eating room, to not point out a patio completely value braving the vacationer hordes on summer season afternoons: a light-strung, lattice-shaded hideaway the place you possibly can drink negronis in opposition to an Elliott Bay backdrop. The menu is simple Italian, the lasagna its star.
Le Pichet
Man, Pike Place Market has quite a lot of nice French spots. Certainly one of them, a Seattle establishment, lies simply outdoors the market correct, however nonetheless throughout the Pike Place Market Historic District. This pathologically good Parisian bistro weaves Northwest seasons right into a basic menu that sparks with finesse. The roast hen is a signature, however the charcuterie board is among the many metropolis’s greatest.
Tiny ‘tinis and huge platters of oysters shimmer at Half Shell.
Tom Douglas–City: Seatown Rub Shack and Fish Fry and Half Shell
Tom Douglas, Seattle’s first homegrown star chef, made his identify at Café Sport, the place he began cooking in 1984. He now has a classy oyster bar, Half Shell, in that very same house, and Seatown Rub Shack and Fish Fry subsequent door. Don’t misunderstand—the identify refers to chef Tom Douglas’s line of meat rubs, which taste every little thing from salmon entrees to fish tacos. Douglas’s spot adjoining to the market has settled right into a fish shack id that matches the realm nicely: fish and chips, crab dishes, even a elaborate shellfish tower, all served with prime market views. Each eating places serve cheeseburgers and uncooked oysters, however Half Shell skews trendy and food-nerd, and Seatown extra down-home.
Place Pigalle
Simply past the fish-throwing insanity, an off-the-cuff French bistro clings to the again of the market, providing beautiful water views and appropriately Gallic cocktails. Given the placement, Pigalle might completely cellphone it in, however each meals and repair have stood the take a look at of time. Mussels and escargot are longtime favorites. The patio is tiny, however its scant tables provide the feeling of being suspended within the coronary heart of the market.
Fast and Informal
Beecher’s Handmade Cheese
This cheesemaker and café counter is a Pike Place Market poster little one: Passersby can watch cheesemaking in actual time, or get in line to order decadent grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup. The signature mac and cheese is equally decadent, and—higher but—straightforward to eat whereas strolling round.
Oriental Mart
Leila Rosas and her household cook dinner the form of homestyle Filipino meals that pulls locals, visiting meals TV exhibits, and hungry market staff. The menu varies—pancit noodles, braised hen or pork adobos sinigang of salmon collar, typically dinuguan in the summertime. O-Mart started in 1971, and gained a James Beard America’s Classics Award in 2020. Another excuse to like this place: Its layers of hand-scrawled, feisty signage (“We don’t have a ‘menu’ ’cus I cook dinner what I would like”).
Seattle Dumpling Co.
A visible menu of every dish sits on the counter, serving to much less dumpling-savvy clients determine what to order. The reply is any of the usual dumplings—pork and chive, mushroom, pork and shrimp, and so forth—as that is a part of the wonderful native Lin Handmade Dumplings empire (additionally encompassing Little Ting’s and Mount&Bao). The sesame noodles and thick bao are good, the XLB much less so. However the plump dumplings, with supple wrappers and juicy filling, are unimpeachable. Although barely greater than a counter with a number of seats inside, this dumpling and noodle specialist backs onto a stunning patio with out of doors tables.
Pasta Casalinga serves 5 day by day bowls.
Pasta Casalinga
Turin native Michela Tartaglia runs a hidden-away pasta counter immediately above the market atrium; it serves 5 day by day bowls that all the time embrace meat, seafood, and “from the backyard” renditions. What this implies: a distinct menu every time you go to, and memorable partnerships between seasonal components and pasta shapes, like tortiglioni with speck and ricotta, or gemelli with caramelized pears, gorgonzola, and walnuts.
Michou
This in any other case unassuming deli has a mind-boggling breadth of panini, salads, and breakfast objects. One journey down the lengthy glass case might internet you arancini, tamales, a two-tomato and brie sandwich, soba noodles, and a nanaimo bar for dessert. Some menu objects outshine others, so it’s useful which you can see all of the wares within the case earlier than you make a alternative.
DeLaurenti Meals and Wine
The 76-year-old grocer has a magical capability to supply us with the provisions we search (cheese, domestically made scorching sauce, a lot olive oil, precisely the precise bottle of wine) but in addition a sturdy slice of Sicilian-style pizza or scorching panini for lunch. Head upstairs to search out a number of tables.
The Crumpet Store
An sudden bastion of Brittania is all about crumpets, griddled rounds of bread that seem like english muffins however style nearer to a pancake. This breakfast and lunch café has been round since 1976; it serves its wares in sandwich kind—full of scrambled egg, or pesto, tomato, and ricotta—however a easy butter and honey combo performs up the crumpet’s subtly porous texture.
Jack’s Fish Spot
The stools, if you will get one in any respect, are cracked and worn. The final diner doubtless didn’t trouble to scrub his crumbs off the tiny metallic counter. View this well-loved joint as a greasy spoon that serves pristine seafood—deeply golden fish-and-chips, recent fish tacos, even a complete steamed crab with melted butter that comes precracked—and also you’ll discover its true charms.
Pike Place Chowder
The strains might be staggering, even by Pike Place Market requirements. However the Put up Alley counter is greater than a vacationer phenom. That chowder is excellent—creamy and full of extra clams than potatoes. When you actually can’t deal with the road, you will get that very same chowder sans wait on the Pacific Place outpost six blocks away.
Kitchen and Market
It’s straightforward to get distracted on this aspirational grocery retailer. The white-tiled house fills its cabinets with produce and pantry objects, however the true focus is grab-and-go dishes and a plethora of meal kits. Pre-made salads and a can of one thing fizzy (and a chocolate chip cookie) make for a straightforward lunch.
Tacky pide and candy baklava go nicely with the Turkish espresso at Miss Café.
Miss Café
This low-key spot on First Avenue, all pale woods and soothing pastels, makes a speciality of pide—leavened flatbreads full of spiced meats and veggies, so that they resemble a torpedo-shaped Turkish pizza. Or seize a beyti kebab, gyro meat cooked in dough then doused in tomato sauce and yogurt. Both means, the meals has been a welcome addition to Seattle’s halal choices.
Emmett Watson’s Oyster Bar
New homeowners took over this Seattle basic, however the recommendation stays the identical: Skip the seats at blue checkered tablecloths within the kitschy eating room in favor of a stool on the again counter. Skip the gluey chowder (and different cooked meals) in favor of the stainless shucked oysters, dressed liberally in housemade cocktail and scorching sauces.
Walkaround Snacks
Le Panier
The “Very French Bakery” places out commendable croissants, ache au chocolat, savory puff pastry tarts, and jewel-box macarons—typically to lengthy strains that transfer with merciful pace. However the baguette sandwiches are the stealth superstars.
Mee Sum Pastry
The counter alongside Pike Place brings dim sum to the streets. The workers dispenses shu mai and barbecue pork skewers and bean paste–stuffed dumplings. However they’ve drawn devotees largely with one merchandise: the hombow—a scoop of meat encased in a pillowy bun. It’s a confection that blurs any distinction between dinner and dessert. The bbq pork reigns because the basic, however the curry beef nails the candy and savory combo even higher.
Freya Bakery & Café
Tucked into the lovable bottom of the Market alongside Western Avenue, this takeout-only Scandinavian espresso store makes a speciality of large, stunning pastries. The oversize croissants as sandwich automobiles, BLTA buns, and salmon mousse toast make it a viable fast lunch choice, although most individuals are right here for the cardamom-scented København latte and a pear crème brûlée Danish.
Lands of Origin
Chef Meeraf Mamo’s counter on the prime Pike Place strip has a glass case stuffed with flavors from throughout Africa and the Afro-Caribbean. Savories like Jamaican meat pies, Moroccan-inspired lamb rolls, and sambusas full of lentils or beef are as memorable as they’re moveable. Sweets may embrace banana pudding and South African melktert.
Pufftown Bakehouse
Constructed from a pop-up and wholesale enterprise right into a everlasting stand, this current addition provides a slate of inventive flavors and enjoyable pastries to the number of Market bakeries. The winter pistachio croissants seem like Christmas bushes, the rip ‘n’ dip croissant knots come full of raspberry jam, and the day by day focaccia is available in flavors like jalapeño cheddar and chocolate strawberry.
Piroshky Piroshky
Two doorways down from the Unique Starbucks lies a line typically longer and worthier. Piroshky Piroshky’s Russian pastries—a cinnamon cardamom braid with simply sufficient acid and heady aromatics to steadiness the sweetness, or a savory Uli’s sausage and sauerkraut—are grandmotherly meals elevated with gilded crusts and harmonious fillings. You’ll wait, however that solely ensures a recent piroshky.
The one factor higher than watching the mesmerizing present of Hellenika’s gelato churning is doing it whereas consuming a scoop.
Hellenika Cultured Creamery
Constructing on their household’s historical past of yogurt-making, the Greek Australian Apostolopoulos siblings churn native milk into a singular—and uniquely scrumptious—frozen dessert, proper within the store. Calling it cultured gelato confuses some, but it surely’s mainly a barely extra mature model of ice cream. The wealthy creaminess balances out a delicate trace of yogurt tang, and the rotating flavors draw on seasonal fruits like rhubarb or marionberry, and Market neighbors like MarketSpice teas and Sunny Honey Co.
