Washington

Some people drive across a national border just to eat lunch in a tiny Washington town. That sounds…

By Claire Donovan · Oct 26

Some of the best meals in Seattle hide where nobody thinks to look. This one sits below street…

By Claire Donovan · Oct 26

Some restaurants earn a following through billboards. Others earn it one plate at a time, until the line…

By Claire Donovan · Oct 25

Some Seattle mornings start with a line out the door, and nobody in that line seems to mind.…

By Claire Donovan · Oct 25

Washington runs on coffee and salmon, but a good roast beef sandwich has a quieter fan club that…

By Claire Donovan · Oct 25

Plenty of restaurants have a soup of the day, but not every one of them starts that pot…

By Claire Donovan · Oct 24

Some neighborhoods are easy to miss, and that is exactly how the people inside like it. Tucked behind…

By Claire Donovan · Oct 24

Seattle sits about as far from Manhattan as a sandwich can travel, yet one Capitol Hill counter has…

By Claire Donovan · Oct 24

Some of the best dinners in Washington happen far from the big city lights, in small towns that…

By Claire Donovan · Oct 23

Some meals come with a plan, and the smartest plan in Lacey involves leaving space for dessert. There…

By Claire Donovan · Oct 23

Some Seattle lunches come with a dress code and a reservation system, and some come with a pot…

By Claire Donovan · Oct 23

Some families measure the years in birthdays, and some measure them in plates of spaghetti eaten at the…

By Claire Donovan · Oct 22

Some buildings hold onto their past so tightly that a simple dinner reservation turns into a small trip…

By Claire Donovan · Oct 22

Many retirees in Washington share the same dream: keep the mountains, lose the endless gray. A growing number…

By Claire Donovan · Oct 22

Poulsbo calls itself Little Norway, and on most mornings a line forms on its main street before many…

By Claire Donovan · Oct 21

Grocery store cider is fine, but it cannot compete with a jug pressed from apples picked a few…

By Claire Donovan · Oct 21

Some breakfasts end with a clean plate. Others end with a stack of to-go boxes and a happy…

By Claire Donovan · Oct 21

Hand-pulled noodles start as a lump of dough and end up as long, chewy strands stretched by skilled…

By Claire Donovan · Oct 20

Some restaurants serve dinner with a side of local legend. Across Washington, a handful of old buildings come…

By Claire Donovan · Oct 20

Highway 2 has a way of testing patience. The pass is long, the curves keep coming, and somewhere…

By Claire Donovan · Oct 20

Some road trips start with a map, and others start with a craving that refuses to quit. Folks…

By Claire Donovan · Oct 19

Some sandwiches are lunch, and some sandwiches are a group project. In downtown Seattle, one old-school deli has…

By Claire Donovan · Oct 19

Some breakfast spots try to win you over with trends. This one has been doing the same honest…

By Claire Donovan · Oct 19

Some road trips call for a quick snack, and some call for a plate so big it needs…

By Claire Donovan · Oct 18

Some of the best sandwiches in Washington are handed through a small window on an industrial road in…

By Claire Donovan · Oct 18

Pike Place Market pulls in huge crowds, and most of them leave with a list of famous stops…

By Claire Donovan · Oct 18

Downtown Seattle has plenty of lunch options, but real barbecue is surprisingly hard to come by. That is…

By Claire Donovan · Oct 17

Some breakfasts are quick and forgettable, and then there are the ones that come with a jukebox at…

By Claire Donovan · Oct 17

Some dinners are worth a highway trip, and this one sits right beside the highway. In Fife, Washington,…

By Claire Donovan · Oct 17

Some Renton diners have quit cooking steak at home after one dinner in a small brick building downtown.…

By Claire Donovan · Oct 16

Some plates never go out of style, and a crispy chicken-fried steak buried under peppery gravy is one…

By Claire Donovan · Oct 16

Seattle has a teriyaki shop on almost every corner, but one Little Saigon spot made a bigger promise:…

By Claire Donovan · Oct 16

Some retirement towns shout for attention, but one city in southeastern Washington prefers to let its rivers do…

By Claire Donovan · Oct 15

Seattle changes fast. Cranes go up, rents climb, and the corner shop you loved last spring is suddenly…

By Claire Donovan · Oct 15

Washington has a teriyaki shop in nearly every strip mall, but not all of them get the glaze…

By Claire Donovan · Oct 15

A good bowl of curry can turn a long drive into a happy errand. Washington has Thai kitchens…

By Claire Donovan · Oct 14

Some Seattle traditions refuse to fade, and one of them lives right on the waterfront. Ferries glide past…

By Claire Donovan · Oct 14

Trail boots, muddy cars, and an empty stomach all seem to point to the same small bakery on…

By Claire Donovan · Oct 14

Some retirees spend years hunting for a place that feels lively without feeling crowded. A growing number are…

By Claire Donovan · Oct 13