The Most Anticipated Eating places in Seattle for Fall 2024

Each new restaurant is a longshot wager on a dream. Cooks and bakers don’t get into their traces of labor as a result of they aspire to wealth; they wish to feed folks, to supply an area for company to congregate and rejoice, to construct a patch of one thing actual and sturdy in a world that generally feels fabricated from sand. Numerous eating places fail, for all types of causes, and it takes an unbelievable quantity of optimism to say to your self, That received’t occur to me and cling up the GRAND OPENING banner.

This yr has already been a reasonably strong yr for restaurant openings in Seattle, and the slate for remainder of 2024 is proof that there’s no scarcity of dreamers on this city. Just a few of the locations on the beneath checklist of anticipated eating places are expansions of well-established companies, however loads are from first-time house owners making an attempt to construct one thing (one set of householders is even planning a brand new restaurant group earlier than the opening of their first place). And in two instances, the house owners have walked away from the restaurant enterprise and are coming again for extra. It’s arduous to flee a dream.

Listed here are our most anticipated restaurant openings within the Seattle space for the remainder of 2024. Word that opening dates are sometimes topic to vary:

ShoMon Kappo Sushi

ShoMon Kappo Sushi

The place: 2301 Fifth Avenue in Belltown
Who: The house owners of Shiro’s Sushi and government chef Masaki Nishioka
When: September 6

Shiro’s Sushi is one in every of Seattle’s most well-known sushi spots — although namesake founder Shiro Kashiba isn’t a part of the enterprise anymore — so naturally the house owners’ new challenge, a $185 kappo set menu spot in Belltown, is making waves. Particularly since they recruited some hotshot cooks with expertise at Michelin-starred eating places in Japan. Get your chopsticks (and wallets) prepared.

The Juniper Collective

Bonito Cafe y Mercadito

The place: 1351 Olive Means on Capitol Hill
Who: Homeowners Daniel and Ismael Calderon
When: September 14

We put this Capitol Hill espresso store and gathering area on our anticipated spring eating places checklist and we’re nonetheless anticipating it! Count on a light-filled, high-ceilinged cafe that hosts a ton of occasions and welcomes Latinx and LBGTQ folks (and everybody else). On the menu: pan dulce from Selva Central Items, ready-to-eat objects from the plant-based Rojo’s Mexican Meals, and beans from Fulcrum. We’re most excited a couple of novel-for-Seattle drink that mixes espresso and Mexican Coke.

Amin

Harry Cheadle

The place: 2336 Cherry Road within the Central District
Who: Proprietor Tarik Abdullah
When: September

Possibly you realize Tarik Abdullah from his work with Feed the Individuals, a group kitchen that has been offering meals to these in want and coaching to younger folks for years. Possibly you’ve eaten at his Cooka T’s Kitchen vegan concession stand at Lumen Discipline. In the event you don’t you’ll know him quickly for Amin, a walk-up window that may serve flatbreads and small plates that draw on the wealthy melange of cultures Abdullah grew up amongst in South Seattle. There may be going to be a $10 menu only for Garfield and Nova college students, and all of the meat and poultry will likely be halal.

Salmonberry Items

The place: 6405 thirty second Avenue Northwest in Sundown Hill
Who: Homeowners David Rothstein and Alex Johnstone
When: September or early October

Self-described “produce heads” Rothstein and Johnstone are taking up their beloved childhood neighborhood grocery retailer and turning it right into a hub for native and sustainably farmed fruit and veggies. They’ll be promoting their very own baked items — beloved on the farmers market circuit — plus fermented ice cream plus kombucha plus lots of different stuff. They even have subscription packing containers. Take a look at what they’re doing.

Marjorie

The place: The Midtown Sq. growth at twenty third Avenue and Union Road within the Central District
Who: Proprietor Donna Moodie
When: Mid to late September

Donna Moodie practically moved on from her celebrated restaurant Marjorie after it closed final yr. Moodie has lots of different issues happening in her life — a longtime group advocate, she’s now the chief influence officer on the City League of Metropolitan Seattle — and seemed to be prepared to show the web page. Then, in an interview with the Seattle Occasions, she introduced that her deliberate Boujie Bar challenge in Midtown Sq. was really going to be the third incarnation of Marjorie. (The primary incarnation was in Belltown earlier than it moved to Capitol Hill.) We don’t have a ton of particulars, however there will likely be about 40 seats, the chef will likely be Aislinn McManigal-Quintana, and we think about that there’ll be a globe-trotting menu and one of many friendliest eating rooms in Seattle — that is Marjorie, in any case.

The Greenwood American Bistro

The Greenwood American Bistro

The place: 8501 Greenwood Avenue in Greenwood
Who: Homeowners Grant Rico and Orel Anbar
When: Late October

Rico and Anbar met at culinary college 11 years in the past, and now they’re beginning their very own firm, the Mannequin Restaurant Group. The primary in what they hope goes to be a collection of eating places is a comparatively large swing — a 150-seat bistro serving lunch and dinner six days every week, plus breakfast on the weekends. You need to care about this as a result of Rico has labored at some fairly important eating places across the U.S., and most not too long ago he was the manager chef for the Hitchcock Restaurant Group. The Greenwood isn’t aiming for the effective eating expertise (or costs) of Hitchcock’s Seabird, but it surely’s undoubtedly going to have some intriguing twists; Rico is particularly excited concerning the bread service, which is able to function sugar kelp pita baked in a pizza oven and served with roasted carrot puree.

Hey Bagel

Hey Bagel

The place: College Village
Who: Proprietor Andrew Rubinstein
When: Late November

So in case you missed it final yr, Rubinstein, who based and put his identify on Rubinstein Bagels, walked away from that enterprise and bought his stake in it to his companions at Ethan Stowell Eating places. Rubinstein Bagels is now a bona fide chain and Rubinstein the human is again with a brand new, additional buzzy challenge referred to as Hey Bagel. Roving bagel critic Sean Keeley referred to as Rubinstein’s new bagels, that are blistery and crackle with taste, “the very best bagel within the Seattle space and it’s not even shut.” Count on traces when this store opens.

Wayland Mill

The place: 3800 Latona Avenue in Wallingford
Who: Proprietor Yasuaki Saito
When: TBD

Saito, who owns acclaimed bakery Saint Bread and killer pizzerias Submit Alley and Tivoli, is including one other restaurant to a reasonably good little portfolio. Wayland Mill will likely be a Burke-Gilman Path–adjoining bistro-style place, open all day and serving “Americana meals utilized with Japanese substances and Japanese sensibilities,” Saito informed Seattle Met. At this level, you need to belief what Saito and his crew are doing.

La Mar Bellevue

The place: 117 106th Avenue Northeast in downtown Bellevue
Who: Government chef Kaoru Chang
When: TBD

A high-end restaurant with sq. footage to spare opening in Bellevue is just not essentially information. However we’re intrigued by La Mar, which has no opening date however final month tapped Kaoru Chang, a hotshot chef with lots of expertise as Nobu, to steer the kitchen. La Mar is a high-end Peruvian chain with U.S. areas in San Francisco and Miami; judging by these menus, La Mar Bellevue can have a heavy deal with seafood (ceviche, anybody?), plus some empanadas and vegetarian choices.