La Marea’s PNW-tinged Mexican seafood counter was one of 2025’s many notable openings.
A flurry of openings kicked off 2025 in Seattle’s restaurant world, including future Seattle Met best new restaurants Hey Bagel and My Friend Derek’s. But for the rest of the year, the news tended to be dominated more by the movements of big names than little upstarts. We said some tough goodbyes to classic restaurants and welcomed a few more that we hope can stick around long enough to become just that. We looked back at the year in restaurant openings and closings, sorted into the trends we tracked all through 2025.
Goodbyes
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