Seattle Restaurant and Bar Openings to Know for June 2025

Right here’s an inventory of notable openings we’ve clocked within the Seattle space within the final month. If we missed one thing, please electronic mail us: seattle@eater.com.

CAPITOL HILL — Capitol Hill Seattle Weblog reviews that the previous Regent Bakery and Cafe house on 14th and Pine Road is now a Japanese sizzling pot joint known as Raku Shabu Shabu, which continues to be in its gentle opening section.

SOUTH LAKE UNION — We’ve been hyping up La Loba for a short time now — this new Spanish restaurant from Vegas-based chef Oscar Amador contained in the 1 Lodge has extra fashion than most lodge eating places and has a menu laden with all types of enjoyable stuff, like wood-fired dishes, tableside tartar, and lavish seafood platters.

PIONEER SQUARE — Talking of swanky inns, Populus simply opened with a pair of food and drinks “ideas,” as they are saying within the biz: Firn, which is Pioneer Sq.’s first rooftop bar, plus a below-roof restaurant known as Salt Harvest.

CAPITOL HILL — And talking of rooftop bars, Capitol Hill has a brand new one known as Cantina Del Sol, which is the primary of a number of bars and eating places that the Pike Road Hospitality Group plans to place inside the previous Mercado Luna constructing on the nook of Pine Road and Summit Avenue.

Brooke Fitts

MADRONA — You don’t get lots of new barbecue eating places in Seattle, however caterer Richard’s Too Good BBQ simply opened a brick-and-mortar location on thirty fourth Avenue. It’s serving basic barbecue dishes and Southern-style sides like corn bread and collard greens. As a bonus, the entire menu is gluten-free.

CHINATOWN–INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT — A brand new restaurant known as Worldwide Lobster Rolls is “serving recent specialty lobster rolls impressed by Southeast Asian, Korean, Hong Kong, Vietnamese flavors and extra,” in response to its Instagram. It additionally has sides like garlic fries and lobster bisque.

CAPITOL HILL — Possibly the subsequent new sizzling Vietnamese espresso store simply opened on Pine. Referred to as Phe, it makes a speciality of phin-brewed espresso (topped with issues like honeycomb toffee) and matcha. Count on a crowd throughout this soft-opening section — in response to Phe’s Instagram, it’s been so in style it ran out of matcha final week.

KENMORE — Trade vets Cody and Andrea Westerfield have turned their pop-up De La Soil right into a everlasting restaurant inside Copperworks Distilling’s Kenmore location. It’s serving seasonal fare largely sourced largely from one farm, the close by Tuk Muk. There’s additionally a youngsters menu.

Jeff Scott Shaw

GREENWOOD — What could be Seattle’s solely drive-thru pizzeria simply opened — BoBu serves a easy menu of sq. pizza slices, sandwiches, and pretzels out of a shack on Northwest eighty fifth Road and Eighth Avenue.

FREMONT — Livbud, the vegetarian-friendly all-day cafe on Stone Manner, has been transformed by proprietor Heavy Restaurant Group into a brand new spot known as Hushy’s. It’s serving freshly baked focaccia sandwiches, plus salads, sides, drinks, and (within the close to future) gentle serve.

CENTRAL DISTRICT — Temple Pastries proprietor Christina Wooden has gotten into pizza, opening a brand new restaurant within the Temple house known as Sacro Bosco. It makes a speciality of Roman-style rectangular pizza and also will be serving aperitivo, Italian wine and cocktails, and a few desserts together with tiramisu and olive oil cake. For now, it’s dine-in solely.

Sacro Bosco

BALLARD — Lengthy-running Thai restaurant Thai Siam reopened after proprietor Vhanthip “Nancy” Bhokayasupatt managed to get sufficient cash to purchase the constructing, retaining a neighborhood establishment in place.

FIRST HILL — After beginning out within the kitchen of a Tacoma Vacation Inn, a budding chain known as Secret Burger Kitchen has opened a Seattle location on the sleepy south finish of Broadway. It serves smashburgers, fries, and extra smashburgers, with an entire part of the menu dedicated to spicy, chile-laden burgers and fries.

DOWNTOWN — Taz Matcha Cafe & Bar is now open on Stewart Road close to Fourth Avenue. Properly, a minimum of the cafe half is. It’s serving “ceremonial-grade” matcha together with pastries and small bites till 2 p.m., and the night bar a part of the enterprise will open quickly.

MADRONA — One other fascinating cafe — this one drawing on Filipino and Korean influences — has opened on thirty fourth Road. Referred to as Yoka Tea, it has matcha, boba tea, and a few croffles.

WHITE CENTER — Well-liked meals truck Whateke has taken over the previous Que Chevere house, which is now Whateke Sports activities Bar. It’ll be serving the Mexican meals Whateke is thought for and a few new objects like ceviche. There may also be house for all-ages household eating, reviews White Middle Now.

AURORA — High Useless Middle, a motorcycle-inspired cafe, simply opened on Aurora close to 77th Road. It’s serving espresso (each Vietnamese phin-brewed stuff and espresso) and a number of Spanish- and Portuguese-inspired meals, like tinned fish, egg tarts, and sandwiches.

High Useless Middle

PIONEER SQUARE — Famed native ice cream chain Molly Moon’s has opened its tenth scoop store, this one in a picturesque former boat launch down by Pioneer Sq., a part of a long-running effort to revive the downtown waterfront.

CHINATOWN–INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT — A brand new poke restaurant known as Pokerrito Ya simply opened on King Road. It’s billing itself as “Japanese–Hawaiian fusion” and serving poke in bowls in addition to in burritos.

CAPITOL HILL — A yr after opening its first Seattle location within the College District, student-centric cookie supply chain Insomnia now has a second location, this one on Broadway between Pike and Pine.

BELLEVUE — Lastly, a brand new bar known as Valentina’s Wine Bar simply opened on Bellevue’s Predominant Road. It can serve flatbreads and charcuterie along with wine, and it’s owned by the identical individuals behind a wine bar within the oceanside city of Seabrook.