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Boat right up it, you lucky bastard.
• WESTWARD and LITTLE GULL • North Lake Union: Josh Henderson (Skillet) runs this pair of dockside places on north Lake Union, with Zoi Antonitsas (formerly of the great Madison Park Conservatory) heading up the kitchen. Westward is the “contemporary Northwest Mediterranean” restaurant, with (of course) seasonal foods cooked on (of course) a wood-fired grill, views of the lake and downtown, and a patio and beach area. Adjoining Little Gull houses a 22-seat oyster bar and upscale grocery (where, if you can stand it, “offerings” include “bottles of beer and wine, charcuterie, little snacks, wool navy blankets, sun visors, and impeccably sourced wooden rolling pins“). If you have a boat, you can boat right up to both, eat/drink, then boat away, you lucky bastard. (2501 N Northlake Way, 552-8215, $$–$$$)
• CENTRAL PIZZA • CD/Madrona/Leschi: Central Pizza is more pizza where All- Purpose Pizza used to be—at 29th and Jackson, it’s sorta-kinda in the Central District, but arguably in Madrona/Leschi too—brought to you by some former Belltown Pizza people. Note: Central Pizza has a full bar and a gluten-free crust option, too. (2901 S Jackson St, 602-6333, $$)
SO MUCH MORE including a moustache-and-tintures bar in a former speakeasy in Ballard that is defffffinitely NOT a “period piece,” plus two new Southern-ish bars on Capitol Hill, AND kimchi fries, all RIGHT THIS WAY > > >