If you go early, ask for the Chinese breakfast menu and then kindly ask for translation—or take a chance by randomly pointing to items, since they’re so inexpensive!
You order at the counter at this casual restaurant, with the cook bringing the food to your table. Look for some interesting Western-influence dishes (yoshoku), including a top-notch katsu curry.
Flip Sum is fixed price all-you-can-eat, so it’s a great opportunity to dare yourself to try adventurous dishes like dinuguan, or to simply focus on your Filipino favorites.
If you're coming from Downtown, take the Water Taxi across the sound--it arrives at Ma Kai's doorstep--for good views and a relaxing trip.
The excellent blueberry lemonade ice pop uses a quick zing of tart lemon to tame the sweet, deeply-flavored blueberries.
A seafood store-cum-restaurant serving Taylor Shellfish Farms' own seafood specialties. Come between 2 and 4 in the afternoon on weekdays for its version of happy hour: no shucking fees!
A groundbreaking sustainable seafood restaurant. Be sure to follow all of Hajime's rules (posted on the website, in the menu, and all over the restaurant) and you're in for a great meal.
Open daily for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The Skillet Burger and the Fried Chicken Sammy are classics, and the Ebelskivers are specific to this location.
Beyond the usual convenience store trimmings, Quick Pack doles out fresh fried chicken that many locals think is the best in town. Don't forget the Frank's-style secret hot sauce by the register.
Chinese noodle house with a great garlic-green onion-chili fried chicken appetizer, too.
Across from the fish throwers in Pike Place Market, stop by for a snack of fried chicken livers and gizzards at this walk-up counter.
When in the most French of restaurants, do as the French do and be sure to order a pichet of wine with your meal.
Make sure you get the smaller "Chinese" menu for the best and most authentic dishes. Anything with the homemade noodles is a surefire winner.
Fuji is an East-meets-West endeavor, combining ingredients and techniques from Japan and France to create wonders like the Yuzu Bacon Epi
Come Thursday-Sunday for prime rib--or the incredible prime rib French dip made from the trimmings.
No better place to go for barbecue in Ballard than this hot spot. Don't skip out on the sides, especially the pulled-pork nachos and Buffalo chicken livers. [Eater 38 Member]
A great place to enjoy fresh nigiri and straightforward rolls, or put yourself in Ryuichi Nakano's capable hands and let him guide you to whatever's especially good that day. [Eater 38 Member] Read more.
