New Zagat Ratings for Seattle

[Schielke]

The Zagat Guide just released their 2003 Seattle edition and here are the results: (Summarized from Seattle Weekly)

Most Popular- Wild Ginger

Best Food- Mistral

Best Contemporary- Dahlia Lounge

Best French- Rover's

Best Italian- Café Juanita

Best Japanese- Nishino

Best Coffeehouse- Espresso Vivace

Best Burgers- Red Mill

Congrats to all the restaurants! Esp Mistral!

Ben

[tsquare]

anyone been to all of them? I need to go to Mistral and Rover's. Funny, thought I ate a fair amount of French cuisine...so many to choose from. So many less expensive options.

[Schielke]

I have been to:

Wild Ginger- Very nice, well executed food. Eat at the bar

Mistral- Still my favorite in Seattle

Dahlia Lounge- Pretty Good, but not too exciting.

Cafe Juanita- Best Eastside place, great stuff

Nishino- Very nice classic sushi, there are better places in Seattle though

Espresso Vivace- Awesome coffee, by far the best in Seattle.

Red Mill- Very good burgers, great shakes, one of my favorite burger joints.

I still need to make it to Rover's

Edited May 15, 2003 by Schielke (log)

[tighe]

I've been to all except Cafe Juanita and its been a while since I was at Wild Ginger. When scrat and I were at Mistral, our server told us that not only had they received the highest food rating in Seattle, but actually the highest in the US. The statistical vagaries of the Zagats process aside, thats still a nice prize.

[Schielke]

Hot damn! Regardless of stats etc... which can be dubious, a big congratulations is in order for William and his crew.

[Roger McShane]

Schielke

You mention that Nishino is OK but there are better places! As a regular visitor to Seattle I need to know where htey are. Can you enlighten me??

[Schielke]

Mashiko's in West Seattle is top notch and very inventive. Our own Col Klink exposed us to it and I owe him forever for doing so. Klink on Mashikos

Other awesome sushi:

Saito's and Shiro's in Belltown: Great all around sushi.

Izumi Sushi in Kirkland: All the great stuff here is in Nigri form. Really great fish and cut generously.

Enjoy!

Ben

[MsRamsey]

Roger, please also see the "Sushi-rific" PNW thread:

http://forums.egullet.org/index.php?act=ST&f=7&t=4649&

I just love Saito's in Belltown. Shiro's is also great, but a big splurge (quite expensive).

Kathy