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Eater is a food and dining platform that is part of Vox Media. It was established in 2005 by Lockhart Steele and Ben Leventhal, initially concentrating on the dining and nightlife scene in New York City. In 2009, Eater expanded to a national level and by 2012, it was covering almost 20 cities. In late 2013, Vox Media acquired Eater along with two other brands from the Curbed Network. By 2017, Eater had developed around 25 local sites across the United States, Canada, and England. The site has received recognition from the James Beard Foundation Awards on four occasions.

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Acclaimed Butcher Shop Beast and Cleaver Is Building a Traditional English Pub

6 days ago | seattle.eater.com | Harry Cheadle

Beast and Cleaver is expanding — again. The Ballard butcher shop (and exclusive tasting menu restaurant, and occasional sandwich shop, and one of the few places in Seattle where you can get sausage rolls) expanded into a space inside Fair Isle Brewing in 2023, but closed less than a year later. Now owners Polly Yakovich and Kevin Smith are once again opening a new restaurant.
PCC Is Coming Back to Downtown Seattle With a Little ‘Corner Market’

1 week ago | seattle.eater.com | Harry Cheadle

PCC People keeping track of the “downtown Seattle is dead”-O meter, adjust accordingly: PCC, the upscale grocery store chain that closed its flagship downtown location in early 2024, is coming back to the Rainier Tower space on Fourth Avenue and Union Street. The new store is different from the old store, and different from all of PCC’s other locations in fact.
Acclaimed, Inventive Restaurant Eden Hill Is Shutting Its Doors

1 week ago | seattle.eater.com | Harry Cheadle

Kevin Zansler It feels like there have been more than the usual number of significant restaurant closures lately, the kind that make you go, “they’re closing?!” Duke’s Seafood on Alki closed abruptly in early April, unable to recover from the pandemic and the West Seattle Bridge closure. The old Virginia Inn is closing down at the end of the month after a dispute with its landlord, the Pike Place Market Preservation and Development Authority.
The Virginia Inn, One of Seattle’s Oldest Restaurants, Is Closing

1 week ago | seattle.eater.com | Harry Cheadle

Roland Tanglao/Flickr One of the oldest restaurants in the Pike Place Market area — a restaurant so old it predates the market itself — is shutting down in two weeks. The Virginia Inn announced on social media over the weekend that it would close permanently on Sunday, April 27, “due to failed negotiations for an equitable lease” with its landlord.
Let’s All Go to Seattle’s Viral Cake Vending Machine

1 week ago | seattle.eater.com | Harry Cheadle

Harry Cheadle Last week I got in my car and drove under a cloudless sky to Ballard to get cake out of a magical fridge. You might have see the fridge on social media. It’s been called a “Cake ATM” on the local news and the “Cake Coop” by its creator, Nicole Conley, who bakes under the moniker Butter Half Cakes.
There Are Still About a Dozen Chefs in the Running to be Canlis’s Next Executive Chef

2 weeks ago | seattle.eater.com | Harry Cheadle

Canlis Aisha Ibrahim, the award-winning chef who ran the kitchen at Canlis for four years, is officially gone as of this week. So who’s going to take over the menu at Seattle’s most famous restaurant, and when? Unlike most of Seattle’s other big-deal restaurants, Canlis isn’t owned by a chef who also oversees the food. Since its opening in 1950 it’s been operated by the Canlis family, and for the past 18 years, run by brothers Mark and Brian Canlis.
Seattle’s Sushi By Scratch Is Back Open After Bizarre Permitting Snafu

2 weeks ago | seattle.eater.com | Harry Cheadle

Suzi Pratt The Seattle location of the high-end omakase chain Sushi by Scratch is open again — at least for now — after a bizarre run-in with the King County Health Department led to its closure last month.
A Worker-Owned ‘People’s Restaurant’ Is Coming to Fishermen’s Terminal

2 weeks ago | seattle.eater.com | Harry Cheadle

Zach and Seth Pacleb are the kind of people who seem destined to own a restaurant. They remember visiting their Filipina grandmother in Hawaii, where she’d “have her old lady friends around the table rolling lumpia,” says Seth. When they flew home, they’d bring a huge bag stuffed with the spring rolls, feeling “super stoked.”It’s taken years, but the Paclebs are now poised to open a brick-and-mortar restaurant and bottle shop in the former Highliner Public House space at Fishermen’s Terminal.
Duke’s Seafood on Alki Is Now Closed After 25 Years

3 weeks ago | seattle.eater.com | Harry Cheadle

West Seattle is losing a landmark. Duke’s Seafood on Alki — instantly recognizable from a distance for its bright-blue awnings and umbrellas, a waterfront dining destination for a quarter-century — has closed permanently. Owners Duke and John Moscrip announced that the restaurant had been sold on Thursday, April 3.
12 Restaurant Openings You Should Know in the Seattle Area for April 2025

3 weeks ago | seattle.eater.com | Harry Cheadle

Here’s a list of notable openings we’ve clocked in the Seattle area in the last month. If we missed something, please email us: [email protected]. CAPITOL HILL — Kelly Miao’s bakery pop-ups now have a permanent home as Kemi Dessert Bar, a little bakery specializing in sweets on 12th Avenue. It’s currently in its soft opening phase, meaning it’s only open Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, but expect potential lines on weekends.