The spread at Ilmu, one of many reasons to drive to Bothell.
In the course of a food writer’s year, trends emerge and patterns become visible. In 2025, I ate and drank my way through lists of the Seattle area’s best new restaurants, best old restaurants, sweetest scoops, and flakiest pastries, plus so much more. Over and over, I found my GPS guiding me north along Bothell Way as it hugs the northwest shore of Lake Washington. I followed the Burke-Gilman as if it were the yellow brick road, but instead of glittering green buildings of Oz it led to lobster in parsnip pannacotta, an heirloom tomato
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