South End Spots to Check Out for Seattle Restaurant Week | South Seattle Emerald

by Mark Van Streefkerk

Seattle Restaurant Week (SRW) is the town’s largest biannual eating promotion celebrating our native restaurant business and numerous culinary communities. Going down within the spring and fall, SRW sometimes options over 200 eating places, pop-ups, meals vans, caterers, and different small meals distributors, all with particular curated menus, usually at various worth factors (from $20 all the way in which as much as $65). Menus function a few of their hottest dishes or some best-kept secrets and techniques. 

It’s free to take part for eating places and meals distributors, and for diners, it’s an awesome alternative to discover eating places you’ve all the time wished to strive. Plus, it’s a tasty strategy to assist native companies persevering with to get well from the pandemic. 

SRW occurs from Oct. 23 to Nov. 5, so there’s nonetheless time to get pleasure from a few of the greatest dishes in Seattle — and there’s a lot to select from within the South Finish. 

Learn on for some unbelievable South Finish spots to take a look at throughout SRW. For a full itemizing of all collaborating eating places and interactive map, take a look at SRWeek.org.

Chinatown-Worldwide District

Should you’re craving spicy, genuine Sichuan dishes, strive Chengdu Style. Their $35 lunch particular consists of an appetizer, rice, entree (decisions embody toothpick lamb with cumin, mapo tofu, and stir-fry beef with crispy rice), and a drink.

Take a look at Itsumono in historic Nihonmachi (Japantown) for creative takes on Japanese delicacies, usually with a Hawaiʻian twist, courtesy of chef Sean Arakaki. Their $65 SRW particular features a three-course menu with choices like hamachi crudo with yellowtail sashimi, Tikka Tonkatsu Curry, and Bananas Foster Andagi with Okinawan doughnuts. 

Take a look at Crawfish King’s $65 meal particular together with your selection of appetizer (jambalaya, oysters, or calamari); mains like lobster, crab, and prawns; and dessert decisions like beignets, caramel flan, and macaron ice cream. 

Purveyor of Chinese language consolation meals, Gan Bei is providing a SRW particular that features wonton soup for 2, clay pot with braised pork stomach and Chinese language sausage, Ong Choy, and a customized cocktail for $65.

Hillman Metropolis and Rainier Valley

Followers of Ethiopian meals have two superb spots in Hillman Metropolis and Rainier Valley for SRW. Hillman Metropolis’s Delish Ethiopian Delicacies has a particular $35 menu that features your selection of veggie or meat combo. Additional South, Kaffa Cafe has a lunch particular for $20 (samosas and vegan sampler), and a dinner menu at $35 or $50 that features samosas, both a vegan or meat and veggie sampler platter, dessert, plus two glasses of wine included within the $50 choice. 

Employee-owned Jude’s Outdated City is providing particular lunch ($35) and dinner ($65) menus that includes a few of their traditional Creole impressed dishes like gumbo, po’boys, and a grits plate. There’s additionally vegetarian and vegan choices.

West Seattle

Positive, West Seattle has superb eating choices right here like Salty’s on Alki and Haymaker, however don’t miss out on two wonderful family-run ghost kitchens working out of Distinguished Meals Business Kitchen: Style of Mumbai and Aroy Mak Thai Meals, each provide SRW specials obtainable for pick-up or supply. 

Style of Mumbai makes a speciality of regional Indian dishes. For SRW, Style of Mumbai is providing dinner for 2 for $50, together with a selection of appetizer, two curry dishes, a naan choice, and dessert.

Aroy Mak Thai Meals makes meals based mostly on recipes handed down from the household’s matriarchs, and is very identified for his or her fried hen. For SRW, they provide a $20 lunch particular with choices like Thai-fried hen (or grilled Northeast model) with ginger rice and winter melon soup.

Burien

In style native spot Now Make Me A Sandwich began out as a meals truck, which remains to be in common rotation round city, and established a brick and mortar in Burien this 12 months. Now Make Me A Sandwich is an ode to American and Latino cuisines that includes scratch-made substances packed in a hoagie or telera roll. Take a look at their $20 lunch menu that includes standard sandwiches just like the Fidel Money Move made with braised pork stomach, sliced ham, and pickle chips; and El Duderino with hen breast and chorizo. Accessible at their meals truck stops and their Burien location.

Tukwila

Theary Cambodian Meals at Spice Bridge world meals corridor in Tukwila isn’t simply one other restaurant. Chef Theary Ngeth additionally offers free group meals (with assist from Good Meals Kitchens) — primarily to members of the Cambodian group, a lot of whom are refugees like her. For SRW, Theary Cambodian Meals is providing a particular $35 menu that includes ox tail with steamed meat egg roll and a facet Chinese language donut. ($65 makes the meal for 2 and provides two beef curry pastries).

Renton

A vacation spot for vegans and vegetarians, Renton’s Blossom Vegetarian is providing particular SRW lunch ($35) and dinner ($50) menus. Picks embody veggie takes on Vietnamese classics like contemporary rolls, pho, fried rice, vermicelli bowls, and sticky rice for dessert. There’s a sturdy collection of teas and wine.

Mark Van Streefkerk is a South Seattle-based journalist, freelance author, and the Emerald’s dwelling within the Beacon Hill neighborhood. He usually writes about specialty espresso, LGBTQ+ matters, and extra. Go to his web site and observe him on Instagram at @markthewriter. 

📸 Featured Picture: A veggie combo at Delish Ethiopian Delicacies in Hillman Metropolis. Delish is one in every of over 200 eating places collaborating in Seattle Restaurant Week. (Picture: Jaidev Vella)

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