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Eater
30-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Eater
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:
Eater
23-06-2025
- Business
- Eater
Eggslut Switched Up Its Controversial Window Coverings
Earlier this month, Eater Seattle reported on the construction of the new Eggslut at Melrose Market. The saucily named breakfast chain is taking over the former Homegrown location, and had placed window coverings up while it renovated the space — coverings that the other tenants at Melrose Market claimed made the whole market appear closed, hurting their businesses. Eggslut is trying to make things right, according to Taylor Tang, the Eggslut licensee partner in Seattle. Tang wrote an email thanking Eater Seattle for 'flagging the concerns' with the window coverings. 'With the landlord's approval, we went ahead and at our own cost redesigned, printed, and installed new window panels coverings. Instead of promoting Eggslut, we chose to highlight the other amazing tenants in the market and added signs to let people know the market is still open during construction.' Is it a perfect solution? Not quite — the Eater Award-winning lunch and dinner counter Cafe Suliman was left off the list of businesses on the window coverings. But we assure you, they are open. Dumpling mega-chain Din Tai Fung has agreed to pay more than $560,000 to over 1,200 employees who had worked at the restaurant's two Seattle locations and its commissary kitchen from 2020 to 2023, reports the Seattle Times . This follows a Seattle Office of Labor Standards investigation into whether Din Tai Fung 'interfered with workers' use of paid sick time and allegations that the restaurant failed to provide employees with meals and rest breaks,' according to the paper. In a blow to the Capitol Hill grocery landscape, the Whole Foods on Broadway closed last week. Capitol Hill Seattle Blog has more on the closure: The massive apartment building that contained the Whole Foods was changing owners, and the grocery store chain 'apparently decided to seize the opportunity to exit its lease.' Earlier this month, Eater Seattle reported that Renee Erickson's celebrated steakhouse Bateau was temporarily closing in part because chef de cuisine Taylor Thornhill and general manager Jamie Irene were leaving, making it a good chance to 'reimagine' the restaurant. Well it turns out that Thornhill and Irene both left to take jobs at Sugar Shack, the restaurant group owned by do-it-all entrepreneur Marcus Lalario (Lil Woody's, Fat's Chicken and Waffles, Darkolino's, etc.). According to a press release, Irene will oversee several restaurants as director of operations, and Thornhill will take over the kitchen at the Georgetown Mexican restaurant Ciudad. See More:
