For lunch there’s fermented and pickled vegetables and smoked whole milk yogurt and sprouted rye crisps – and for meat eaters there’s roasted chicken and beef tongue. For dinner try Puget Sound smelt or quail, as well as fire-roasted Hakurei turnips.

This Edmonds spot is as unassuming as it gets. While most of their dishes include meat – from pork sandwiches to spicy beef noodles – their (vegan) hot oil noodles will have you wondering if you should order seconds. Our advice: start off with the cold noodles, move on to the hot oil noodles, then rub your belly in pure satisfaction.

Okay, we’ve written about this one before, but with good reason: Vegetarians and meat-eaters alike can rally around their Tajarin pasta with butter and sage (or ragu, for meat eaters.) It almost puts the phrase mouth watering to shame, the dish is that good. If you sit at the counter you can see the pasta cut by hand in the kitchen, too. And yes, there are plenty of meat dishes on the menu.

Thin crust pizza at its best, this is another spot that, if you are seated at the counter, you get the theater of watching the pizza being stretched, tossed, and thrown into the wood-fire oven. Along with the veggie or meat pizzas, the Ballard restaurant has great house and special salads.

The most notable dish at Grub is their Mix-Up fried rice, which they serve Saturday and Sunday every third weekend (it comes with sausage but you can substitute mushroom.) If you can’t make it over then, try breakfast potatoes or bright kale salad with tahini dressing, which is light but filling all at once.

This tucked away Queen Anne gem might have the best Agedashi tofu in the city. It also has some of the most hearty – and vegetarian – Yakisoba and Yakiudon. Mix that in with plenty of fresh sushi rolls (oh, and of course, Japanese beer) and you have a spot a group can enjoy together.

This is your official quinoa alert, vegans: Ravish offers harissa quinoa with sautéed greens and seasonal vegetables. The Eastlake eatery also serves braised short ribs, pancetta three-cheese mac and cheese, and pan-seared sweet potato latkes with bacon and blue cheese.

Two words and a symbol: mac & cheese. Often there is a vegetarian option, or you can just ask them to take the bacon out of the house version. Along with shrimp grits, buttermilk fried chicken and chicken pot pie, there’s yam fries, hush puppies and deep-fried Brussels sprouts. It’s a down-home restaurant for vegetarians and carnivores to enjoy.