Food Reviews & Stories Despite its modest sign and dim stairway, Masu�s interior beguiles with sexy urbanism. The menu offers a compromise between Western-style platings, the typical a la carte sushi experience, and a love affair with tempura. Sauces kick the food out of the simple raw-fish realm and into a heavier, mor   More

Food Reviews & Stories Despite its modest sign and dim stairway, Masu's interior beguiles with sexy urbanism. The menu offers a compromise between Western-style platings, the typical a la carte sushi experience, and a love affair with tempura. Sauces kick the food out of the simple raw-fish realm and into a heavier, more    More

Food Reviews & Stories The restaurant’s take on Thai isn’t the most inventive, but its reliably tasty, affordable food is peppered with just enough surprises to make it stand out. Noodles are the star attraction of the menu, with a half-dozen “pads” to choose from, most made of the broad, flat rice noodles that offer sati   More

Food Reviews & Stories Located inside an old social club, the pub has the casual disarray of a private home’s den. Mismatched furniture is grouped loosely in an informal seating area, TVs broadcast sporting events, and décor is masculine and hockey-themed. The menu offers past, meaty entrees and sandwiches, but pizza is t   More

Food Reviews & Stories When the latest neighborhood bistro fails to deliver, come downtown, and home to Higgins. This white-tablecloth classic gives an air of confidence without a whiff of pretense, as the kitchen of chef/owner Greg Higgins—doyen of fine and fresh Northwest cooking—should. Despite the august v   More

Food Reviews & Stories To call Navarre a tapas bar would omit the nuanced intimacy and boutique charm of the place: long community tables, shelves groaning with jars of pickles and preserves, whisper-thin water glasses, the hand-scrawled menu offering more than 20 small plates in multiple portion sizes. Nightly specials t   More

Food Reviews & Stories Once a mailbox-sized neighborhood secret whose "no reservations" policy made for interminable waits (and the people did wait), TDD is now all grown up. An expanded, twilit dining room (including a generous-sized bar for expectant diners) provides the backdrop for a menu that celebrates beloved favor   More

Food Reviews & Stories The initials stand for "distrito federal," Mexico City's nickname, but if you're seeking an informal, menudo-munchers taqueria, head north to Alberta (or south—to Mexico). DF is situated in a soulless Pearl District storefront, warmed with Tuscan-toned paint, a dance-music soundtrack, and spic   More

Food Reviews & Stories Much has been made of the hype surrounding the latest endeavor from the folks who brought us both Family Supper and clarklewis. And most of the comments about this "gastropub" have been in the favorable column. If there's a gripe, though, it's GBT's failure to live up to and enliven the tavern motif   More

Food Reviews & Stories f Shaun of the Dead is any indication, pubs are more than just watering holes-much more. The hero of this recent camp flick chooses his neighborhood pub, the Winchester, as his fortress against a Lond ...   More