Seattle Restaurant Week is Better When We Give a Meal

The Tin Table

The Tin Table is a gem hidden in plain sight — or rather, tucked above the buzzy Capitol Hill scene — right across the hall from Century Ballroom on the second floor of the Oddfellow’s Building. Here you’ll find cozy lounge seating and excellent cocktails and food, perfect for a break from all that dancing at Century Ballroom, an intimate date night, or just to hide away for a bit. For SRW The Tin Table is offering a $35 dinner with a cocktail pairing: your choice of fish tacos with a margarita, or chicken or tofu satay with peanut sauce and a highball. Both options have a nonalcoholic choice, and both come with mango sorbet from Seattle Sorbets. The SRW menu is available Wednesday through Saturday. Give a Meal contributions are possible through diner donation. Capitol Hill. Dinner is $35. 

Happy Food

This one-woman show in Little Saigon might be one of the very best for authentic Chinese dishes. Chef Ye takes orders, cooks, and serves in this small spot on 12th and Jackson, in the same center as ChuMinh Tofu. In fact, Ye sometimes helps serve free meals to neighbors in need along with ChuMinh and the mutual aid group “The Eggrolls.” During SRW, Happy Food is offering a fantastic way to contribute to The Eggrolls mutual aid efforts: pay just $15 more for their SRW lunch ($20) or dinner ($35) menus, and the extra amount goes directly to making two free meals. Both lunch and dinner sets come with soup like tomato egg soup, appetizers like seaweed salad or spicy sour shredded potatoes, and entrees like Mapo tofu and stir fried green beans or braised pork intestines. Dinner comes with a sweet rice dumpling soup for dessert. Chinatown International District. Lunch is $20. Dinner is $35. 

Bar Dojo

This highly-rated Edmonds restaurant specializes in Asian fusion cuisine, with some satisfying Asian-Mexican items, all in a distinctly Pacific Northwest style. If all that sounds ambitious, it’s also certifiably delicious, with friendly service to match. SRW is a great way to get acquainted. Their SRW dinner menu (offered every day except Friday) features starters like aguachile oysters, salmon tartare wonton tacos, and mushrooms al pastor bao buns. Entrees include a choice of slow braised short ribs, King salmon, or tofu vegetable okonomiyaki fried rice. There’s crave-worthy dessert options as well: lychee panna cotta, ube tres leches cake, and a vegan mochi trio. Bar Dojo offers diners the option of a $10 Give a Meal donation that benefits the World Central Kitchen, an organization getting meals to those in need on the frontlines of climate or humanitarian crises. Edmonds. Dinner is $65. 

Plenty of Clouds

Inspired by cuisine of South Central China, Plenty of Clouds is a Capitol Hill spot for noodles, pork dumplings, fried rice, and an incredible cocktail menu. Spicy food lovers will delight in the house’s MaLa dishes (a blend of numbing/tingling Sichuan peppercorns and chili peppers).  Head to Plenty of Clouds for a three-course dinner for $35. Start with your choice of small plate from options like: spicy eggplant, Sichuan pork dumplings, Chinese greens or chrysanthemum salad; mains like Mapo tofu, dry fried chicken, Yibin burning noodles, shrimp fried rice, or dan dan noodles; and a dessert or drink like crispy rice treats, wine, or the Slipper Spritz, made with pomegranate gin, campari, ginger, and sparkling wine. Give a Meal contributions are possible through diner donation. Capitol Hill. Dinner is $35.  

Askatu Bakery

This Belltown bakery is the only dedicated top nine allergen free bakery in Washington state. All baked goods here are made without wheat/gluten, dairy, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, fish, shellfish, soy, sesame, potatoes, corn, or anything artificial. Born out of necessity due to the owner’s child having over 50 food allergies, the plus side is it’s a haven for many others who have food allergies and sensitivities as well. For SRW, Askatu has two lunch options for $20 and $35, featuring the “banh vi” — with either lemongrass marinated pork belly or mushrooms — tropical fruit jelly or tea cookies, and a passionfruit drink. Give a Meal contributions are available through diner donations. Belltown. Lunch is $20 and $35.