Seattle Restaurant Week is a deceptively named two-week competition that celebrates going out to eat. Yearly, dozens of Seattle-area eating places characteristic particular menus — sometimes three-course prix fixe meals — with discounted costs and typically particular, limited-run dishes. Individuals love Seattle Restaurant Week, and taking part eating places are inclined to get slammed. Count on crowds wherever you go, and make reservations when you may.
This yr, SRW runs from Sunday, March 30 to Saturday, April 12. A whopping 250 eating places, pop-ups, and meals vehicles will take part, in line with a SRW rep, greater than ever earlier than, and greater than we may ever hope to jot down about in a single little preview put up. One solution to determine the place you’re going to eat for Seattle Restaurant Week is to browse the listing of eating places and filter by delicacies fashion or neighborhood. You might additionally simply see if a spot you’ve all the time needed to go to is working specials and use SRW as an excuse to test it out. Do not forget that not each restaurant is open each night time of SRW. For hours, seek the advice of the SRW listing or attain out to the restaurant straight.
However if you would like a cheat sheet, right here just a few of the provides that caught out to us:
Mioposto
The wood-fired pizzeria with 4 places is providing perhaps the very best deal in all of Seattle Restaurant Week. For $65 you get dinner for 2: an appetizer, a salad, a 12-inch pizza, and two glasses of wine or nonalcoholic cocktails. Often SRW prix fixe menus don’t embody drinks, so this can be a bona fide cut price. That is out there in any respect 4 Mioposto places, that are additionally providing a seven-days-a-week $50 brunch for 2, which features a mimosa, bloody mary, or nonalcoholic beverage.
Shiro’s Sushi
Talking of offers, should you get a desk at this Belltown omakase joint, anticipate to pay $85 for 19 items of nigiri over 5 programs. Throughout SRW, you get the identical factor for simply $65. Be suggested this deal is just for the tables; a seat on the bar continues to be $140.
Cheers! Hong Kong
This can be a newish dim sum spot in Capitol Hill from Dumpling the Noodle proprietor Sen Mao, and for its first-ever SRW it’s doing a number of completely different $65 meal combos for 2 individuals, with dishes starting from basic fried rice and siu mai dumplings to pigs ears and black sesame tiramisu. (There’s additionally a vegan meal.) Given how good the crispy-skinned duck is at Dumpling, we’d be tempted by the $50 roast duck choice.
Palace Kitchen
Tom Douglas’s famed downtown restaurant, which reopened in 2023, is doing a $50 prix fixe dinner menu, but it surely’s additionally dwelling as much as its repute as an after-hours grasp with a late-night SRW menu from 10 p.m. to midnight. For $20, you may get scrapple, a pork schnitzel sandwich, or the Palace Kitchen’s well-known burger.
Rondo Japanese Kitchen
It looks like each time we do certainly one of these rundowns we’re all the time like, “Rondo has offers!” Effectively, it does. This time across the Capitol Hill restaurant has a lunch choice for $20 that will get you 9 appetizers (together with joints like spring bonito sashimi and a floor wagyu cutlet), and a $35 dinner choice that’s both a donburi-esque bowl loaded with fish or a wagyu Bolognese topped with a slow-cooked poached egg.
Secret Fort
This little yakitori spot in Wallingford (inside Yoroshiku) is admittedly pulling out the stops for SRW, providing just a few completely different dinner choices. For $35 you get an appetizer, then a sushi roll, then a choice of grilled skewers, but it surely could be value it to pay as much as $50 so that you get sashimi, chirashi, and a extra premium choice of meat. It’s surf and turf, Japanese fashion.
The Garrison
House owners Josh Delgado and Jordan Melnikoff have up to now made a fuss over SRW at their different restaurant, Le Coin. Whereas that place doesn’t seem like working specials this yr, their Ballard oyster and champagne bar shall be value a go to. The $65 prix fixe menu is loaded with seafood — there’s a riff on a Caesar salad that features chicory and goat cheese together with white anchovies — and has loads of alternatives for add-ons, like caviar or a champagne pairing. Come right here with somebody you wish to impress.
