It’s been an enormous month for openings
The Eater Seattle Heatmap goals to reply the query “The place ought to I eat proper now?” for individuals attempting to maintain up with town’s continuously altering eating panorama. It focuses on newer eating places — usually opened or revamped considerably throughout the final six months or so — which might be reshaping Seattle’s meals scene for the higher.
Lots of this month’s openings are a lot hyped and long-awaited, like “Chopped” winner Jhonny Reyes’s new Belltown brick-and-mortar, Lenox, and Situ Tacos’s relocation from inside Jupiter Bar into the standalone spot on Ballard Avenue previously occupied by Bitterroot BBQ. Seattle’s gotten a pair thrilling second tasks from established restaurant house owners too, like José Garzón’s Latin-fusion outpost, Dangerous Chancla, on the Hill, or close by Ramie, a brand new idea for the Nguyen siblings who personal Ba Sa on Bainbridge Island, bringing up to date Vietnamese effective eating to the neighborhood. There’s additionally a high-profile new cocktail bar and nightclub in The Wash, which is what dearly departed Rose Temple has simply polymorphed into (however the brand new house owners are holding the chef popups!), and Filipino fast-food followers will rejoice to listen to that there’s a brand new Jolibee in Rainier Valley. In the meantime, some would possibly in any other case sail underneath the radar utterly, like luxurious Indian-Nepali Kitchen up on ninetieth and Aurora, which remains to be ramping up on social media after just a few months in biz however deserves all of the likes and shares regardless.
Whereas 2024 stays a tricky time for eating places because of inflation and labor shortages, there are nonetheless greater than sufficient new eating places to maintain diners busy.
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