Diners' Choice: Best Service restaurants in Seattle

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Updated December 05, 2024

Looking for restaurants with the best service in Seattle? You’re in the right place. Each month, OpenTable analyzes nearly 2 million global diner reviews from the past four months. We sort the results by location and category to help you discover new favorite restaurants. It's a great partnership: you reserve, eat, and review. We listen...and deliver the results for all to benefit. Enjoy!

Cora Pizza and Plates

4.8

4.8 (45)

$30 and under

Italian

Capitol Hill / First Hill

About the restaurant

Welcome to Cora Pizza & Plates, a neighborhood Italian restaurant in Seattle’s Capitol Hill featuring wood fired pizzas, heartening pastas, and seasonal vegetables and salads from James Beard Award-winning Chef John Sundstrom of Lark. Visit our rustic and cozy space, perfect for a date night or family dinner, and enjoy our refined but approachable plates, complemented by a curated wine list, batch cocktails and boozy slushies.

Top review

Andy

Dined on Nov 23, 2024

Excellent food. Delightful staff. Reasonable prices. Best Seattle dining experience we have had in quite a while.

Vino At The Landing

4.9

4.9 (483)

$30 and under

American

Renton

About the restaurant

Vino At The Landing is a fun, vibrant wine bar and retail wine shop located at The Landing in Renton. Whether you're looking for dinner and a glass of wine before a movie or after work, a nice bottle to take with you for a dinner party, or interested in tasting the latest vintage from a great Pacific Northwest producer, we hope you make Vino At The Landing your gathering place.

Our tapas style menu features signature items including Bruschetta, Vino Platter, White Truffle Popcorn, various salads, paninis, wraps, and pasta dishes.

We have a strong focus on hard to find artisan Northwest wines, weekly Thursday Night "Meet The Winemaker Tastings" and monthly wine education classes.

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Melody

Dined 1 day ago

The service is amazing. The food is fresh, clean, delicious. The wine selections are well thought out for the seasons as well as the clientele preferences. .

The Olive & Grape

4.9

4.9 (576)

$31 to $50

Mediterranean

Greenwood

About the restaurant

Turkish, Italian and Greek with a Twist.
The Olive and Grape opened in September 2010. The owner, Paola Corsini, is third-generation Italian Levantine, born and raised in Izmir, Turkey. Paola's distinct culture is represented in the menu at The Olive and Grape. Each and every meal served is infused with the traditions of Turkish and Italian cuisine.

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Sue

Dined 2 days ago

We love this restaurant. It is perfect for dinner before a play at Taproot Theater. Service is warm and friendly (and prompt) and ambience is great - quiet music. It is hard anymore to find a restaurant that it not so noisy that it is hard to carry on a conversation. The menu is truly Mediterranean with many choices, and dishes are delicious. I gave 4 stars on food this time because my husband's lamb chunks were "chewy and sinewy" (although the ground lamb kofteh was fine.

Sushi Kashiba

4.8

4.8 (824)

$50 and over

Sushi

Belltown / Pike Place Market

About the restaurant

Sushi Kashiba is Seattle's destination for Japanese fine dining at its highest level. Located right next to historic Pike Place Market. Take a coveted seat at the Omakase sushi bar, where you just might find multi-James Beard Award nominated Chef Shiro Kashiba hard at work.

Ordering one of Sushi Kashiba's chef curated sushi dinners is probably your best bet. The cuts of salmon, toro, tuna, yellowtail and other fish are always fresh and beautifully presented. The meal is finished off with Sushi Kashiba's trademark cake-like egg dessert. The restaurant also features à la carte items like agedashi tofu, oysters on the half shell and Chef Kashiba's New York Times featured black cod kasuzuke.

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Danevip

Dined 2 days ago

Consistently professional, fresh sushi and educated staff. Everyone on their staff still wear masks for some apparent reason. Corkage fee for Seattle restaurant average 25.00. They charge $45.00 and a very expensive yet limited wine list. Always nice to see Shero (owner/Chef) in the kitchen as well as stopping at several table to say hello. Rare these days in Seattle restaurants.

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4.9

4.9 (2352)

$30 and under

Northwest

Belltown / Pike Place Market

About the restaurant

Inspired European and Northwest brunch, lunch and dinner. We take great pride in using the freshest & highest quality products as our menu is entirely made in house. Stop by for dinner or brunch & experience seasonal cuisine, creative libations & a warm welcome! We have a very small dining room and a not accommodate group dining. Our table maximum for brunch and lunch seats up to 6 guests. For dinner service, we can seat up to 8 guests if there are openings. Thank you.

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Marivip

Dined on Nov 29, 2024

The best food and service. Neighborhood gem. Our go to spot for comfort food in Seattle.

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4.9

4.9 (332)

$31 to $50

Contemporary American

Capitol Hill / First Hill

About the restaurant

Chef Eric Johnson cooks casual but elegant dishes at his Capitol Hill restaurant specializing in Contemporary Asian cuisine. Since opening in 2014, he’s won over Seattle diners with dishes like chili cumin pork ribs, fried master stock chicken, and crispy duck fresh rolls. The cocktails feature Southeast Asian ingredients like galangal and lime leaf. Stateside is conveniently located on lower Capitol Hill within a short walk of the Convention Center, the Paramount theater and downtown. Check out Stateside's cocktail lounge next door, Foreign National, for an intimate craft cocktail experience.

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Julia

Dined 1 day ago

The food was amazing everything we ordered was spectacular!

Nell's

4.9

4.9 (1688)

$31 to $50

Northwest

Green Lake

About the restaurant

Nell's is an intimate, chef-owned restaurant located in the vibrant Green Lake neighborhood. Open for dinner seven nights a week, Nell's offers European-inspired New American cuisine featuring the finest Northwest seasonal ingredients. If we do not have your desired reservation time available online, please give us a call.

Our chef Philip Mihalski's cooking approach unites his classic training in some of the most celebrated kitchens in New York City and France with his passion for freshness and simplicity.

Nell's menus are designed to pair beautifully with your wine selection from our large wine list. We also offer vegetarian and vegan options on request.

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John and Heathervip

Dined on Nov 28, 2024

Gabriel was lovely and the food was delicious. Sophie back in the kitchen made our son laugh. The evening was enjoyable.

Violet

4.9

4.9 (722)

$30 and under

American

Capitol Hill / First Hill

About the restaurant

Violet, voted Best New Restaurant 2019, by Seattle Magazine, is the newest concept by executive chef William Belickis. Violet offers a unique American Omakase dining experience influenced by French, Italian, and Spanish cuisine.

Chef William Belickis emphasizes a strong dedication to seasonal and local ingredients grown in our own rooftop farm and sourced from trusted farms/purveyors, as well as the finest ingredients the world has to offer.

Our menu is seasonal based on Chef's choice of the freshest ingredients available to create artistic flavors. Put trust in Chef William Belickis's hands and experience the American Omakase, a personalized 5-course seasonal tasting menu. Wine pairing is available and our knowledgeable staff can help you customize your dining experience.

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Petervip

Dined on Nov 16, 2024

Violet is consistently one of the top restaurants in Seattle. We were a party of four with two out of town guests. We ordered the American Omakase meal with vegetable, fish, and meat courses but without the foie gras. The chef easily accommodated one guest who does not eat beef. As always at Violet, the fish courses were superb--the chef has a real touch with both crude and cooked fish. Plating was lovely and creative, worthy of a starred restaurant. Service was attentive. Wine list is interesting if a little over priced. The restaurant is very loud and would not be good for anyone with hearing problems. It was perhaps worse this evening because there were some very noisy guests. We return to Violet several times a year because it is so very good. Bravo.

Jackalope Tex-Mex & Cantina

4.7

4.7 (5)

$31 to $50

Tex-Mex

Columbia City

About the restaurant

Tex-Mex cuisine began in the Rio Grande Valley before migrating up to San Antonio during the l860's where a group of women known as The Chili Queens' began to pop up in the city's plazas selling chili con carne with tamales, enchiladas, and chili verde. They incorporated cumin into their dishes favored by settlers from the
Canary lslands, which still has a strong influence on Mexican food in Texas. Tex-Mex also loves beef, flour tortillas, yellow cheese, fajitas and more.

Our inspiration comes from the many classic Tex-Mex restaurants including Sylvia's Enchilada Kitchen, Papasito's, Ninfa's, Blue Goose, Hugo's, Herrerra's Cafe, Chuy's, Valentina's Tex-Mex and many more. Jackalope combines excellent Central Texas-style smoked meats from Jack's BBQ with delicious Tex-Mex dishes. lt's truly the best of both worlds!

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OpenTable Dinervip

Dined on Nov 17, 2024

This is such a fantastic restaurant! Our adult kids love it when we treat them to the Jackalope experience. The dishes are always incredible, brisket, smoked meats, and their drink menu is equally as stellar. My husband and I tried brunch last week and were as impressed. If you have t been yet, go!

Mondello Ristorante Italiano

4.9

4.9 (470)

$30 and under

Italian

Magnolia

About the restaurant

Mondello Italian Restaurant in the beautiful Seattle neighborhood of Magnolia provides one of the most romantic, most authentic Italian dining experiences in Seattle.

Mondello has beautiful pasta dishes, seafood & main courses, salads, zuppe & bruschette & antipasti dishes. Corino (owner) & Enza (chef) grew up in the vicinity of Mondello and they bring to Seattle their wonderful tradition of fresh seafood, homemade pasta & rich authentic Sicilian cuisine with all it's flair & joy of living.

They have the life experience of fine cooking and appreciation & sensiblity of the Italian palate that allows them to create a dining experience reminiscent of being in Mondello, Sicily.

No one fails to be entranced by Mondello's welcoming beauty and warm personality.

Grazie Amici!

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Carmelavip

Dined on Nov 25, 2024

I love this restaurant! The owner starts taking care of us the moment we walk in the door. The food is SO good!! Always my favorite.

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