30-06-2025
The Best Dishes Eater's Seattle Editor Ate in June 2025
At Eater Seattle, we have to eat out a lot — it's right there in the website name, next to 'Seattle.' Sometimes, this research shows up in the articles and maps we publish, but sometimes, we eat something so good that we have to tell everyone about it. This running monthly column is a place for us to share especially good dishes with you.
I was at Melrose Market this month writing about the controversy surrounding the window coverings put up by incoming tenant Eggslut, so naturally I stopped in at Cafe Suliman, the perpetually charming counter run by Ahmed Suliman. The small plates format here means that you can have anything from a snack to a multi-course meal, and I opted for something snacky: halloumi with seasonal vegetables. The cheese was snappy on the outside and chewy on the inside but what really stood out was the combination of dukkah and a quince dressing, which made the dish a little sweet but also deeply savory. If I was a vegetarian I'd eat at Cafe Suliman even more than I already do.
For father's day I carted my family to surely one of the more dad-coded restaurants in Seattle. Lady Jaye has great meat, a whiskey-focused cocktail menu, Floyd on the patio speakers, and incredible ribs. These were a special and not always available, but they were simultaneously smokey and crispy and so tender the meat was falling off the bone. I was gnawing this sweet, succulent meat in between bouts of trying to get my one-year-old to not injure himself. (Maybe takeout next year.)
The pork on this plate is fantastic — crispy, fatty, and with a little bit of cumin-y spice. But honestly the sides accompanying it may outshine it. The greens cooked in coconut milk are rich and taste mostly of coconut (obviously) but have some intriguing bitter notes too, an impressive depth of flavor from an unassuming dish. If you haven't been to Lenox, correct that immediately.
The round pizza at Dino's on Capitol Hill is good but you should skip it to get the square pie instead. It's not as thick as a Detroit-style pie but it has those crispy, Maillardized edges characteristic of that style. It's chewy, it's tangy, it's the kind of pie you're constantly just having one more slice of. See More:
