Meg van Huygen

2 weeks ago | seattlemag.com | Meg van Huygen

Jhonny Reyes used to look at the former Marco’s Supper Club and The Innkeeper space in Belltown with envy. “I’ve always had my eye on this place,” Reyes says, while telling the story of how his restaurant, Lenox, polymorphed from popup to food truck to brick-and-mortar. “I helped open The Innkeeper, actually. And then it was Jerk Shack.

1 month ago | seattlemag.com | Meg van Huygen

There’s a new bar in Pioneer Square near the sports stadiums, a Capitol Hill haunt that’s open 18 hours a day, and a highly anticipated restaurant opening in Tacoma. Meanwhile, a cherished Greek fast-food restaurant has reopened in the Greenwood neighborhood almost a decade after a devastating fire. Here’s a quick list of some of the region’s newest and most exciting restaurant/bar openings.

1 month ago | seattlemag.com | Meg van Huygen

When I was a student at Cornish College of the Arts in the late ’90s, still learning what I liked about food, I was deeply in love with a restaurant called 611 Supreme. On East Pine Street between Belmont and Boylston, 611 Supreme was a dreamy French-ish bistro of my never-traveled-anywhere teenage dreams: shabby chic with orange walls and exposed brick and pendant lights, it offered a small but creative menu of crepes, chops, wine, and cocktails.

1 month ago | seattlemet.com | Meg van Huygen

When Horace Chapin Henry arrived in Seattle in 1891, the city was his Olympia oyster. A farmer’s son who’d fought for the Union at Gettysburg and then nearly died from tuberculosis after the war, the double survivor moved about as far away as possible from his hometown of Bennington, Vermont. Henry landed here with his family just two years after the Great Seattle Fire.

2 months ago | seattlemag.com | Meg van Huygen

While it’s true that Seattle’s restaurant-scape is still sleepily waking up from its long pandemic nap, exciting things are happening in the city’s culinary scene. These days, we’re seeing new tantalizing restaurant openings and food events pretty much every week. Here’s a heads-up on seven restaurant openings to load up your dining calendar.