Naomi Tomky

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Seattle

Find the best spots daily to eat and drink in hipster neighborhoods. Hit the roof, drink a beer and eat delicious at top-tier restaurants. Plan your nightlife adventure with maps and reviews of unknown micro-brews, rooftop parties, and independent drink.

Best Restaurants & Bars - Places to Eat & Drink - Thrillist

Whether you prefer your oysters plain or with mignonette, horseradish, hot sauce, or a squeeze of lemon, the pairing of oysters with the outdoors might be best of all.

Where to Eat Oysters Outside in Seattle Right Now

Beverage Director

Beverage Director: Find the Best Bars to Drink at in Your City

Drink

Creativity is cool again, and it's the star at Seattle's latest slate of bar openings, which include a science-fiction-inspired patio with a growling tiger fountain and a sweet little spot that takes the phrase "beer garden" extremely literally.

The Absolute Best Bars in Seattle Right Now

Eat Seeker

Eat Seeker helps you find the best restaurants in your city. Check out our articles to help you find the best places to eat near you, now.

Eat Seeker: The Best Restaurants in Your City Right Now

Opening new restaurants is cool again, and Seattle's favorite chefs, bakers, and restaurateurs are returning with cool concepts and enticing menus to keep the city buzzing about bagels, banh mi, and more this summer.

Where to Eat in Seattle Right Now

Nation

Green Travel

This Earth Day on April 22, here are a few ways you can to minimize your impact and join the millions of people doing their part to make preserving the planet priority No. 1.

Green Travel: Things You Can Do to Help Protect the Earth

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Travel

Explore adventure guides and design a custom itinerary for the destination of your choice in and around the city.

Best Travel Guides, Cool Hotels and Interesting Events - Thrillist

As cars honk and taxis navigate the traffic-filled streets of Mexico City, a different kind of exploratory bliss exists on quieter, greener paths.

You Don't Need a Car to Explore These Beautiful Cities

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The king tides pour into Netarts Bay in winter, forcing the Jacobsen Salt Company to pause pulling water out.

Salt, Storms, and Seafood Await in This Stretch of Pacific Northwest Coast

Lunar New Year

Thrillist is ringing&nbsp;in the Year of the Tiger with a collection of guides, profiles, and features all related&nbsp;to how Lunar New Year is celebrated in communities around the country.

Celebrating Lunar New Year: Guides, Profiles, Features & More

Like most North American cities these days, many of Seattle's most exciting Xi'an noodle spots and curative Yunnan soup purveyors sit in the suburbs, but the traditional home of Chinese food, the Chinatown-International District, stays relevant and still holds the highest concentration of excellent restaurants.

Try These Chinese Restaurants in Seattle’s International District ASAP

After years of new ramen shops popping up like bubbles in a pot of boiling broth, the Seattle ramen scene finally settled into its groove.

Where to Find Seattle's Best Ramen This Winter

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It takes guts to open a restaurant a year and a half into a pandemic when finding staff is nearly impossible, but Seattle has always been a city of brave folks with cool ideas, and it shows in the variety of exciting new spots opening all over the city.

13 Fall Restaurant Openings in Seattle to Get Excited About

The unbridled joy of chomping into the perfect combination of beef patty, bun, and fixings keeps Seattle diners on the constant lookout for a better burger.

The 14 Best Burger Joints in Seattle

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Much of serving food fast comes from consistency and bulk sourcing, things that go against the very ethos of Pacific Northwest cuisine.

15 Pacific Northwest Fast Food Chains the Entire Country Needs 

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In cooking – something that everyone does a lot more of now that they stay home so much – time becomes a seasoning.

6 Low-Effort Food Projects That Are Worth Your Time

Black History Month

Thrillist is celebrating Black History Month in February with a collection of profiles and features on Black-owned businesses, as well as guides to neighborhoods around the country curated by locals.

Thrillist Celebrates Black History Month With a Spotlight on Black-Owned Businesses

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Growing up in Seattle, Efrem Fesaha straddled two coffee worlds: at home, his family roasted green beans and prepared the traditional East African coffee ceremony, while Starbucks and similar shops dotting Seattle street corners rapidly turned out espresso drinks for the masses.

Naomi Tomky’s Recent Articles

Where to Eat Oysters Outside in Seattle Right Now

Shuck ‘em, grill ‘em, fry ‘em, bake ‘em, or eat ‘em right off the shell.

The Absolute Best Bars in Seattle Right Now

From neighborhood dives to swanky cocktail lounges, this is where you should be drinking right now.

Where to Eat in Seattle Right Now

Here are your must-hit new restaurants. Make a reservation ASAP.

You Don't Need a Car to Explore These Beautiful Cities

These streets are for a different kind of wheels.

Salt, Storms, and Seafood Await in This Stretch of Pacific Northwest Coast

Ocean waves echo into everyone’s business here.

Try These Chinese Restaurants in Seattle’s International District ASAP

From takeout dim-sum to premium hot pot, these meals will satisfy any craving.

Where to Find Seattle's Best Ramen This Winter

Nothing's cozier.

13 Fall Restaurant Openings in Seattle to Get Excited About

Get these on your calendar.

The 14 Best Burger Joints in Seattle

From old-school to high-end.

15 Pacific Northwest Fast Food Chains the Entire Country Needs

Banh mi drive-thrus, Indian nachos, and more.

6 Low-Effort Food Projects That Are Worth Your Time

In cooking – something that everyone does a lot more of now that they stay home so much – time becomes a seasoning.

Boon Boona Celebrates East African Coffee Traditions in Seattle

The heritage-driven coffee shop is opening its second downtown location.