The burger options at this glorified shack, a sibling to Feed Co. Burgers, are studies in decadence, although beef isn’t necessarily always the way to go. One favorite happens to be the lamb burger, with pickled peppers, manchego, cured lemon, and chermoula sauce.

Lupo is justifiably famous for its sourdough pizzas, baked in a wood-fired oven covered in red tile behind the service counter. The menu offers classic pizzas like marinara, pepperoni, and margherita, as well as a cacio e pepe pie and a burrata soppressata pizza with hot honey and Calabrian chili pepper.

This bistro skews more toward French home cooking than haute cuisine, but all the dishes show refinement. There are multiple grilled meat and vegetable options, including a solid burger, but seafood is the real star, including raw oysters and seared halibut and scallop dishes (don’t forget about the lemon tarts for dessert).

If you’re craving a break from the European-style coffee you can get all over Seattle, duck into Aroom and get your socks blown off. The Vietnamese phin-brewed coffee here is powerful and they cut it with flavors like salty cream, peanut butter, and sesame. The concoctions are sweet and strong and will keep you going all day.

After building a strong following as a pop-up inside Fremont’s Pomerol, the contemporary Indian cuisine specialist Meesha became a full-fledged restaurant in 2020. Among some of the can’t-miss dishes from chef Preeti Agarwal are rarah keema pao with expertly prepared ground lamb, the fried Amritsari fish, and the paneer in tomato sauce with black cardamom. Takeout is still an option, but the lively dining room and patio are also open for business.

This pint-sized Taiwanese restaurant is regularly packed with diners eating dishes like crunchy garlic green beans, flavorful popcorn chicken, and lu rou fan (fatty soy-sauce-braised pork over rice) while sipping on boba tea. Though not strictly Taiwanese, the restaurant also serves several excellent versions of malatang, a spicy Chinese soup bowl with ingredients like lotus root, shell-on shrimp, fish cakes, sliced beef, and other meat, seafood, and vegetables. But the hidden gem of the menu is a cold soft tofu appetizer with preserved egg and a powerfully garlicky sauce with a deep umami flavor.

This bakery from brothers Jesse and Kit Schumann has been anchoring Stone Way since 2014 and is one of the most reliable bakeries in the city. The sourdough baguettes are crunchy, chewy perfection; the cinnamon rolls are huge and addictive; the croissants are wildly inventive (as we type this, the savory croissant has zucchini, sunflower seed pesto, and pecorino). The secret here is that on weekday afternoons they serve pizza by the slice that is immensely satisfying lunch option.

From the owners of acclaimed drinks den Stampede Cocktail Club, comes this diner with a disco ball-packed hallway that serves all-day breakfast and a selection of solid drinks, including guava Moscow mules and vegan grasshopper slushies. It’s always packed, even on weekdays, with friends getting drinks after work, and the dance music is always bumping.

Livbud is a new restaurant from the Heavy group (it owns Purple and Pablo y Pablo, among others) that had the bad fortune of opening when extensive road work was being done on Stone Way out front. It’s worth walking around the construction though — Livbud has an extensive menu of small plates, toast, granola, and other bites, much of it vegan or vegetarian (there’s a lot of gluten-free options as well). It does coffee and alcoholic beverages too, making it a great all-purpose hangout from everyone from laptop warriors to first daters.