Uses ingredients, raw and cooked, with the respect and restraint that fresh seafood deserves. Oysters glisten. King crab legs are succulent and sweet. Jumbo shrimp maintain their snap. Leer más.
One of the best special-occasion restaurants. Has happy hour, with appetizers like Peking duck confit and lobster/crab dip. Beer, wine and some cocktails cost $4. 3-6pm, 9-11 M-Th, 9-12 F-S, 9-10 Sun Leer más.
El Mestizo's cavernous dining room feels like a temple of Mexican cooking. Chef Ivan Martinez offers a regional menu of mole, enchiladas and house-made tortillas. Enjoy with a shaken margarita. Leer más.
For something you can really sink your teeth into try potato croquettes or arancini. The croquettes are upscale tater tots: fried pillows of parsley-flecked mashed potato and cheese. Leer más.
The city's most romantic happy hour also offers a $2.95 appetizer list, including three buttery croissants with ham and cheese, steamed mussels and goat cheese and garlic mousse. 5-7 M-F, 8-10 Sat Leer más.
2881 Granville StreetVancouver, BC Cuisine: Contemporary, Fine dining, Pacific northwestPrice: $$$$ Leer más.
Breezily elegant Venetian-style snack bar, complete with exposed kitchen, a mix of counter and table seating and a menu of roughly two dozen exquisitely crafted small plates priced from $6-$12. Leer más.
Start with a specialty cocktail; The selection is diverse and inventive. Chickpea purée made a fine cocktail companion. So was the heap shoestring fries, made with truffle oil and rosemary. Leer más.
A palate-teasing assortment of small plates: dates stuffed with chorizo and goat cheese, paquettes filled with guava and mahon, or calamari three ways. Try the lamb burger at lunch or the fig tart. Leer más.
As the crow flies from Istanbul to Seattle, The Berliner offers fresh comfort food. Get the Fiery Kreuzenberg chicken kebab with banana peppers, chile sauce, skip the pita for gluten-free and enjoy. Leer más.
They've got pasta and burgers, but you want to be here for the pizza. The NY-inspired options like the Madison Square Garden and the Jersey are each packed with seven ingredients. Leer más.
Don't miss the small plates, including shrimp a la diabla, Veracruz-style squid and fried empanadas filled with Swiss chard and Oaxacan cheese. Leer más.
Try their take on a cubano: a pressed sandwich filled with pork, pale-green pickles and melted Wagon Wheel cheese: Leer más.
Proprietor Joe Vilardi's inspiration may be French or Italian, but his exuberance is wholly American. Pork osso buco is a Flintstonian bone more than half a foot long. Duck breast is full-flavored. Leer más.
There are diner-style sandwiches (Philly cheesesteaks) and burgers (Juicy Lucy), seriously fatty apps like the "Beecher’s Deep Fried Cheese Curds" shown above, or fried mac & cheese wedges. Leer más.