When one person, a family, or a group of friends decides to go out to eat, it only makes sense to choose the best restaurant. The cost of eating out has risen substantially over the last couple of years, so don’t waste time and money on a mediocre restaurant when just down the street there may be a wonderful option with the same prices. The price of the food does not necessarily determine how good it is.

The Best Restaurant for Each Kind of Dining

The best restaurant for one type of dining is not always the best restaurant for all kinds of dining. So, before leaving home to eat out, determine what category of dining everyone wants, and then look on rating sites to see what the best places are for that kind of food. Checking out Noms Magazine for their list of best seattle restaurants is a great place to start.

A person can look at the best overall restaurants and they can ask for the best restaurants in different categories. There is also a chance of asking about the best restaurants close to where one is located.

Budget-friendly diners and restaurants are always a plus, and the best include the Biscuit Bitch, the Mecca Cafe, the Five Point Cafe, Uli’s Famous Sausage, Voula’s Offshore Cafe, Beth’s Cafe, Thai Tom, Pho Viet Anh, Easy Street Records & Cafe, Blue Water Taco Grill, Denny’s, IHOP, Burger company, and more.

James Beard’s award-winning restaurants and fine dining can be great for special occasions. Some of the best include Ballard Restaurant, Joule, Sushi Kappoo Tamura, Communion Restaurant and Bar, Off Alley, TOMO, and a few others.

French cuisine is alive and well in Seattle, and some of the best locations include the Cafe Campagne, Le Pichet, La Parisienne- French Bakery, Celine Patisserie, and Petit Pierre Bakery.

All types of Italian dining are available in Seattle.

Italian dining includes pizza places to formal Italian dining, and some of the best locations include Cafe Juanita, The Pink Door, Bar del Corso, Lupo, Spinasse, Caffe Senso Unico, D’Ambrosio Gelato, and others.

Sushi and other Asian cuisines are readily available. Seattle is also known for its many kinds of Asian Restaurants including Chinese, Vietnamese, Filipino, Thai, and more. The best list includes the Pho Bac Sup Shop, Taurus OX, The Chicken Supply, Pestle Rock, Kamoegi, Canlis, Dan Gui Sichuan Cuisine, Monsoon Seattle, Musang, Archipelago, May Kitchen and Bar, and others.

Spanish or Mexican

dining places to choose from include the Frelard Tamales, Antiqua Guatemala Restaurant, Blue Water Taco Grill, Los Agaves at Pike, TnT Taqueria, and others.

Seafood restaurants abound in the city. Seattle is known for its great seafood coming from Puget Sound and the ocean nearby. The seafood is paired with ingredients from farms and ranches near Seattle. Try some of these recommended locations including the Seattle Fish guys, Sushi Kashiba, Rockcreek Seafood & Spirits, Chinook’s, Duke’s Seafood & chowder, Ivar’s Acres of Clams, Rays, Aqua by El Gaucho, Etta’s, Athenian Seafood Restaurant and Bar, Palisade, The Walrus and the Carpenter, The Crab Pot Seafood Restaurant and others.

Coffee and more shops that are recommended include Ghost Alley Espresso, Storyville Coffee Pike Place, Seattle coffee works, Cherry Street Coffee House, Starbucks, Caffe Ladro, and Caffe Umbria.

Steak Houses

specialize in great steaks and also offer other menu choices in a unique atmosphere. BBQ restaurants are also for meat lovers. Some of the best steak and BBQ houses in Seattle include Flint Creek Cattle Co., Joule, Beast and Cleaver, Jack’s BBQ, The Grill from Ipanema, and others.

Bars with good food are always fun for an evening with friends, and some of the best include The Zig Zag Cafe, Reuben’s Brews, Stoup Brewing, Cloudbust Brewing, and Optimism Brewing Company.

Informal dining, as in a food truck, include the Taqueria la Fondits, El Cabrito Restaurant, Pop Pop Thai Street Food, Trinity Market and Deli, NYC Deli Market, Square Knot,

Breakfast and Brunch

spots to try include Pete’s Egg Nest, Top Pot Doughnuts, Mecca Cafe, Biscuit Bitch, Both Ways Cafe and Catering, The dish Cafe, Nollies, Deli No More, Breakfast Club, The Egg & Us, Varsity Inn Restaurant, The Crumpet Shop, Sweet Iron Waffles, and more.

Jewish delis or bakeries are also a choice and the best include Zylberchtein’s, Muriel’s Kosher Restaurant, Dingfelder’s Delicatessen, and others.

Indian cuisine dining places to try include Meesha, Nirmal’s, A Taste of India, Bengal Tiger Cuisine of India, and Daawat Indian Grill.

Making Your Choice

Once there is a group of recommended restaurants serving the type of food everyone wants, narrow down the choices by convenient location and price. Then, go to the individual restaurant websites and check out menus, parking availability, hours, and specials. Can a customer make a reservation to ensure seating availability? Since there are several rating sites available, why not look at all of them and compare the results? The restaurants that appear on multiple best dining sites are well worth trying out.

By the long list of top-rated places to eat, it should be obvious that Seattle has a great collection of diners, restaurants, and other great places to enjoy good food. Since there are so many places to eat, a fun plan would be to do a little research with a group of friends and choose a new, highly rated restaurant to try each week. Since there are wonderful places for breakfast, brunch, lunch, and dinner, it could take a lot of time to get through the list.

Then there are all the great bakeries to get snacks and coffee shops to get some wonderful beverages. There is simply no excuse to be bored by your eating habits in Seattle. Don’t stick with a few fast-food places or a couple of okay restaurants or diners. Be adventurous, and take advantage of all Seattle has to offer in fine dining at every level.

The magazines like Noms and the Seattle food rating sites are constantly changing their ratings and finding new restaurants or deleting ones that go out of business or fall in the ratings, so keep checking the great dining lists to keep up to date and find new eating places to try out. The rating sites also give people advice on the best things to order at different places.