Downtown

Vivienne's Bistro is a Downtown Chinese restaurant that works perfectly for big group lunches and pre-theater dinners.

Afternoon tea at the Fairmont Olympic Hotel is a glitz and glam without any actually good food.

Cafe Campagne is a French institution at Pike Place that serves great brunch.

For stacks of ube pancakes, foot-long lumpia, and 10 different kinds of silog, head to Ludi's—a Downtown Seattle Filipino diner that serves breakfast all day.

Oriental Mart is a Filipino institution at Pike Place Market that serves phenomenal longanisa and adobo, among other things.

For a classic steakhouse experience Downtown, Metropolitan Grill is the best choice.

This beige corporate building along Westlake is not a bank, it's a Starbucks—and either way, we're only here out of pure necessity.

Sushi Kashiba is a Seattle institution that serves some of the best sushi in the city.

Yes, this is a department store restaurant. But we’ll be damned, they make a mean salad.

Because you don't have to settle for Yard House.

Olympic Bar is the main bar inside the Fairmont Olympic Hotel, and it's a great place to pretend to be a Downtown tourist for the night.

The Diller Room is a bar that's been a classic Seattle mainstay since 1894.

The Edmonds-based restaurant runs the kitchen at the Seattle Art Museum's cafeteria with decent seafood dishes.

Ivar's Acres Of Clams is a particularly sad touristy waterfront seafood restaurant that's perfect for having an existential crisis Downtown while eating fried batter clumps being passed off as clam strips.

Aqua is a Downtown waterfront seafood restaurant that’s perfect for anything corporate.

Anthony's Pier 66 is a seafood-filled tourist trap that has the feel (and food) of a convention center.

A seafood restaurant on the outskirts of Pike Place sounds tempting, but Cutters Crabhouse is a disappointing place full of mediocre crustaceans.

The Crab Pot is not the Downtown crab palace it claims to be—instead, you can expect an insufferable tourist atmosphere and bland seafood.

You haven't really had lasagna until you've had it at The Pink Door, a touristy-but-great Italian restaurant just outside Pike Place Market.

Musubi Kai is a Hawaiian counter spot Downtown that serves a lineup of musubi, donburi bowls, and poke. Prioritize anything with Spam.

You'll find thin-sliced meat served on golden cow sculptures and a vast sauce bar at this Downtown hot pot destination.

Bombo Italian Kitchen is one of Ethan Stowell's most disappointing Italian restaurants.

Founders Club is a Downtown speakeasy hidden in the lobby of the Olympic Fairmont Hotel—It's only worth it if you have a lot of disposable income to spend on mediocre drinks.

Cupcake Royale is a cupcake bakery and ice cream shop Downtown.

Mint seems practically designed for a business dinner Downtown and should be used only if you're in need of upscale Indian food that your boss is definitely paying for.