The Most Anticipated Restaurants Opening in Seattle This Fall

This summer time in Seattle has been filled with restaurant openings. Sushi By Scratch Eating places, a bunch by chef Philip Frankland Lee that acquired a Michelin star in California, began serving a 17-course omakase in Downtown Seattle on September 1. Brendan McGill’s Seabird restaurant on Bainbridge Island has impressed diners with the most effective components the Puget Sound has to supply since July. And after some delays, a Turkish pop-up from a pair used to working in three-Michelin-starred eating places is opening up someday this month in Ballard. It looks like after an extended interval of hesitancy, cooks and restaurateurs are again to taking dangers and making strikes in Seattle.

Whereas this fall is wanting just a little quieter by way of restaurant openings, there are nonetheless some thrilling spots to look out for, with a banchan-focused Pioneer Sq. deli from a cookbook writer, a seafood-focused bar in Bellevue from the longtime chef at The Barking Frog, and extra.

Ohsun Banchan

When: Late October
What: Cookbook Creator Sara Upshaw is opening a Korean deli and cafe in Pioneer Sq. serving noodles, soups, stewed meats, and most significantly, a number of 10 seasonally rotating banchan. “No matter’s in season, we’ll both pickle it or make it into kimchi,” Upshaw says. The area will operate as an informal lunch and takeout spot throughout the day and as a bar serving soju, beer, wine, and cider, with Korean snacks and some dinner dishes at evening.

Bar Moore

When: September
What: Longtime Barking Frog chef Bobby Moore just lately introduced he was leaving his publish on the Woodinville staple to run his personal eating places. A part of this transition entails him taking on and making some adjustments to Bellevue’s Bis on Fundamental, whereas maintaining the employees the identical. Bar Moore is his new next-door idea, someplace diners may get drinks and snacks earlier than or after dinner at Bis on Fundamental, or spend a whole night consuming and consuming. The meals can be largely French and seafood-focused, with snacks like oysters, poached prawns, charcuterie, and foie gras torchon. The drinks and wine can be shiny and refreshing, to pair with the seafood.

Sohn Mat By Tae

When: TBA
What: Widespread Chophouse Row chef’s counter ByTae shut down in February 2021 and introduced it was searching for a brand new location. On the finish of August this yr, ByTae introduced on Instagram it had discovered a bigger dwelling in Beacon Hill. The restaurant’s web site says the brand new idea may have a bar and a yard (with footage of a patio on its Instagram) and can serve grilled meats, veggies, fermented meals, beer, and cocktails. Although particulars are but to be introduced (the web site merely says the restaurant is opening quickly) it is going to be thrilling to see this subsequent section in James Beard Award semifinalist Solar Hong’s profession. Based mostly on the menus at ByTae, count on Japanese and Korean influences.

Dave’s Scorching Hen

When: TBA
What: This wildly in style Nashville scorching rooster franchise, began in California, is lastly coming to Washington state after opening dozens of places elsewhere in the previous few years. The chain just lately introduced it made a deal for 10 places in Washington, a lot of which can be within the Seattle space. Contemplating the fast progress fee of this firm (it began as a pop-up in a Los Angeles car parking zone in 2017 and has since opened dozens of places throughout the nation and acquired funding from celebrities like Drake and Samuel L. Jackson), places ought to be opening up within the Seattle space quickly.