This dear little Turkish cafe in Pioneer Square has been here seemingly forever, and it’s still serving reliably lovely Mediterranean dishes. Veggie options abound, such as the grilled eggplant sandwich, the falafel pita, and the meze platter, featuring some of the best hummus in the city. The kalamata-studded lamb shepherd’s salad is a star as well.

Pioneer Square’s Casco Antiguo keeps it clean, colorful, and classic with tacos, enchiladas, cochinita pibil, and other comida típica mexicana. Its be-muraled alley bar is the perfect place to spend a pre-game happy hour (weather permitting, of course).

This spacious Pioneer Square restaurant steps up the beer hall concept slightly, serving stylish takes on the cuisine of Germany and Sudetenland with sustainable, organic, Pacific Northwest ingredients. As expected, sausages feature heavily on the menu, but there are a few nice vegetarian and pescatarian options too. The scene is understandably lively, and kids are welcome.

Seattle’s answer to Momofuku in New York City, stylish Girin specializes in Korean ssam, usually referring to barbecued pork or fish, wrapped up with chiles inside of leafy greens and accompanied by various banchan side dishes. The set menus are great for sharing with a big group. Some highlights from Girin’s fantastic happy hour are the pork belly ssam cups, the ground short rib burger, and fried oysters with gochujang mayo.

This reincarnation of Seattle’s snazziest 24-hour restaurant packs every bit of swingin’ mid-century punch as its original Boren Ave. location did, up to and including the swiveling leather captain’s chairs at the bar. What also followed along to Pioneer Square is 13 Coins’ colossal, ‘60s-era menu: Dutch babies! Calf’s liver and onions! Asparagus in béarnaise sauce! There’s something for pretty much everyone.

Folks sometimes call this place “the Japanese Denny’s” thanks to its shabby diner aesthetic, its ‘80s vaporware cocktail bar, its deep-fried comfort food, and the late hours it keeps. The yoshoku Japanese-Western menu is a wacky bricolage of American classics like spaghetti — say, topped with soy sauce-butter chicken or bolognese and garlic mayo — and variations on doria (a Japanese casserole of rice, meat, and cheese), ramen, udon, katsu, omelets, Asian fusion hamburgers, and platter-sized pools of curry. It’s always a weird, fun time in here.

The name of the game at this Chinatown International District fixture is barbecued meat. One of the neighborhood’s oldest surviving restaurants, Kau Kau started out as a ritzy Chinese-Hawaiian restaurant and is a bit rougher around the edges these days. But the pressed eight-spice duck and roasted side pork are as delectable as ever. Plus, prices mostly hang out below 10 bucks.

Ideal for groups, Crawfish King does a bonafide dump-it-on-the-table-style Cajun crawfish boil, with various Vietnamese sides, beverages, desserts, and sauces to add a twist to the experience. The specials sometimes include the rarely seen Pacific Northwestern signal crawfish, which can be the size of a lobster — way bigger than the imported mudbugs from the South — and the menu always has all the usual local crab and oyster suspects too.

Sharing space with Club Sur, owner Pedrito Vargas’ casual, colorful SoDo restaurant serves killer pan con lechon, media noche sandwiches, puerco asado (roast pork with black beans and plantains), and ajiaco criollo (a Cuban country-style stew with pork, yuca, and corn on the cob), plus plenty of fun specials.