First time Portland & Seattle
Our first time to Portland (2 nights), then Seattle (3 nights), in late June. This is part of a two-week trek; with so many restaurant meals, we're trying to avoid completely overloading the metabolism and the wallet. We live in Connecticut; when we're traveling, we like to eat local favorites as well as ethnic cuisines that are not well-represented at home (most--but we usually keep our pizza-eating in New Haven). We love seafood, meats and vegetables, cocktails and beer, etc. So I'm more in
In Seattle, for reasonably priced shellfish in a casual setting, Taylor Shellfish (multiple locations).
For more upscale and a very wide array of local produce, seafood etc, Lark. A bit expensive but absolutely worth a spulrge.
Eater.com has a bunch of other recent recommendations.
http://seattle.eater.com/maps/best-seattle-restaurants-38
http://seattle.eater.com/maps/best-new-seattle-restaurants-heatmap
Edited to add-
I just realized that I had alread