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These Local Restaurants Will Serve Thanksgiving Dinner

Snag a reservation—or a pickup time—and leave the holiday spread to the pros this year. Forget the holiday hassle. Let the experts deal with the basters and meat thermometers this Thanksgiving; several of Seattle’s storied restaurants open for Thanksgiving with special menus and festive decor. Many are stationed in hotels, thus ready to host any out-of-towners and handle all the scene setting, and some do takeout.

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Town & Country Markets just launched its first Seattle Field House restaurant in Ballard

Ballard residents now have a convenient new place to eat out while grabbing groceries. Town & Country (T&C) Markets opened its newest Field House restaurant on November 7 at its Ballard Market, the first in Seattle proper. The opening comes after T&C celebrated its 40th anniversary with the Ballard community...

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Pierogi By The Dozen Fill The Freezers At These 6 Washington Eastern European Delis

Cream cheese pierogi in a tiny Central Washington lake town. That one detail sent me down a very delicious rabbit hole. It turns out Washington has a whole network of Eastern European delis hiding in plain sight. Some sit on busy city streets. Others share a main drag with small-town...

Seattle, WA · 1d

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Service dogs helping veterans with PTSD

Ahead of Veterans Day, FOX 13 Seattle met with a U.S. Coast Guard veteran, who wants to highlight how helpful service dogs can be for those with post-traumatic stress disorder.

Seattle, WA · 2d

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A Small Price and Big Flavor Make This Washington Bakery’s Donut Worth the Drive

A bag of mini donuts is easy to agree to share before you’ve had the first one. Once they’re warm from the fryer and covered in cinnamon sugar, the arrangement might need another look. At this little counter, the frying happens right in front of the line. You...

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Idyllic Pursuit

Tens of Thousands of Snow Geese Winter in Washington’s Skagit Valley. Here’s Where to See Them

Every fall, white geese pour out of the sky over the farm fields north of...

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Garden d’Lights Returns to Bellevue Botanical Garden Nov. 28

Garden d’Lights returns to the Bellevue Botanical Garden on Saturday, November 28, and runs through Sunday, January 3, 2027. This is the 32nd year of the holiday display, which uses more than half a million lights to form plants, flowers, birds, animals and waterfalls along the garden’s paths.

Bellevue, WA · 1d

seattlerefined.com

Juice Time brings fresh juices and Dubai-inspired desserts to South Lake Union

Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood has a new spot for fresh drinks and desserts. Juice Time, located at 903 Dexter Ave. N, serves a menu that ranges from fruit-forward juices and smoothies to crepes, kunafa, and Dubai-inspired sweets. The menu offers plenty of ways to mix familiar ingredients with...

Seattle, WA · 2d

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These 8 Washington Dishes Capture the Pacific Northwest One Bite at a Time

Too many apples and too few buyers could have been the end of the story. Instead, two immigrants used the extra fruit to make a chewy candy inspired by a sweet from their homeland. More than a century later, people are still reaching for it. That’s a good reason to...

Seattle, WA · 7d

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Seattle Zoo's Endangered Tree Kangaroo Loses Arm to Fast-Spreading Infection

Forest Trailhead, Woodland Park Zoo — Other Tree Kangaroos On View. An endangered Matschie's tree kangaroo at Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle is recovering after veterinarians amputated her right arm to stop a rapidly spreading bacterial infection. Poppy, a young female who will turn 3 next month, underwent the surgery the week before the diagnosis became public, after a CT scan showed the infection advancing through one of the bones in her forearm.

Seattle, WA · 2d

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In 1910, a ground-floor saloon opened inside Pioneer Square’s Triangle Hotel; 116 years later, one of Seattle’s oldest bars is officially reopening after its devastating pandemic closure

After years of uncertainty, one of Seattle’s oldest bars is preparing to welcome customers back. The Historic Triangle Pub, a longtime Pioneer Square gathering spot, is currently in the middle of a soft reopening, bringing new life to a historic building that has stood on First Avenue South for more than a century.

Seattle, WA · 5d

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McDonald's Proposal Targets Chinatown-ID Corner With Bamboo Look, No Drive-Thru

A proposal to bring a new McDonald's to Seattle's Chinatown-International District would fill a long-vacant storefront at Fourth Avenue South and South Jackson Street with a dine-in and takeout restaurant that skips the drive-thru altogether. The plan calls for Chinese-language branding and bamboo-colored architectural touches meant to echo the neighborhood's character, and it heads to a city review board this week.

MyNorthwest.com

Study: Out of 960 Chipotles, the most praised one in America is in a former Seattle Taco Time

The best Chipotle in America sits inside one of Seattle’s strangest buildings, according to a new study. The Chipotle at 2212 N. 45th Street in Wallingford earned more praise in its Google reviews than any of the roughly 960 Chipotle locations analyzed nationwide. If the address sounds familiar, the building should too. It’s the mirrored glass cube that housed the neighborhood’s beloved Taco Time for 34 years.

fox13seattle.com

Fed up with delivery costs, Seattle restaurant owner starts his own service

Spice Waala owner Uttam Mukherjee launched Yaku, an independent delivery service designed to counter sharp revenue drops and inflated customer costs caused by Seattle’s 2024 "PayUp" minimum pay regulations. Yaku operates with hired employee drivers paid by scheduled hours rather than by individual orders, charging a flat $10 delivery...

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KUOW Public Radio

Saving a Seattle family’s restaurant, one social media post at a time

After 50 years, a Seattle family's restaurant is struggling to stay open. The owners' granddaughter is trying to save the business through social media.

seattlerefined.com

Burien rapper Travis Thompson talks storytelling, sobriety and the city that made him

I first caught Travis Thompson in 2017 during his set at Upstream, the music festival founded by the late Paul Allen. He’d just released his "Ambaum" mixtape, a nod to Burien, where he grew up and spent much of his life. Though he was still relatively young, he already knew how to connect with a crowd. I’ve seen him perform about a half a dozen times since, most recently at Bumbershoot, and he's still got that ability to connect.