What's going on in Seattle

Mawadda customers might think they're choosing what to eat when they decide between, say, falafel and shawarma, but the dishes are just details: They all end up eating garlic. Sweet, stinky garlic is everywhere at Mawadda, and it's pretty fantasti...

Brian Durbin owned a Caribbean resort before taking the chef's job at the Innkeeper, a restaurant that celebrates a seamier vision of seafaring than most tropical getaways promote. The dusky room evokes a pirate's haven, and Durbin's best small pl...

A weekend with your in-laws doesn't have to be painful. OK, I lied. It does. But it can be less painful if you find a place where everyone can be happy doing their own thing. The Fremont Sunday Market is that place. It's like browsing around a rea...

The pie contingent has ceded the popularity battle to the misguided sugar fiends who crave cupcakes, but they're not letting up on the quality front. Foremost among local pie producers is Chris Porter, the talented baker behind A La Mode Pies, whi...

When you want a stunning view encompassing both the downtown skyline and the Puget Sound, where do you go? Alki Beach, Queen Anne's Highland Drive, and...31st Avenue South in Mount Baker. Not many people know about the latter, the exception being ...

Each fall since 1998, Northwest Film Forum has hosted its Local Sightings Film Festival. Unlike SIFF's global reach and scale, Local Sightings looks as far as Oregon, Montana, and maybe British Columbia for interesting stories and filmmakers. Some...

At Grinders Hot Sands, the sandwiches aren't cheap—most are between $10 and $12—but they're enough for a hearty meal plus leftovers, or to share between two people. Try The Dipper, packed with roast beef made in-house, portobello mushrooms and car...

Food and a flick has been a standard date-night recipe since the days of drive-ins. But Cinebarre in Mountlake Terrace makes the best local case that those two tastes taste better together. The grub is cheekily-named standard fare (try the "Blue V...

The Herbfarm dominates national best restaurant lists for its seamless service and flawless execution. If you're not put off by the profuse chintz in the dining room, your nine-course dinner, (which typically runs $250 a person), lovingly infused ...

Fusion on the Run founder Cassandra Seaman, with her surfer-Hawaiian-Portlandia roots, has managed to create a beast cuisine that's best coined as "Hawaiiamesicorean." This beast makes the sweet flavors of Hawaiian fare play nice with the herbs of...

There are many taco trucks around the city, but for South Enders there is only one Taco Bus: Tacos El Asadero. Yes, it has a tattered metal exterior, but unlike many taco trucks, you can actually walk inside, see the kitchen, and eat while sitting...

In the year since Seattle's favorite bartender, Murray Stenson, left The Zig Zag for (eventually) the stellar Capitol Hill newcomer Canon, the casual observer may have been led to believe that the classy Pike Street Hillclimb bar had fallen into a...