Restaurants & Bars
Best Restaurant In Washington: Daily Meal’s 2019 List
The food and dining site has unveiled its best restaurants in America. On Washington restaurant made the cut.
The Daily Meal unveiled its “Best Restaurants of 2019,” and the online food and dining site included one restaurant from Washington.
Roughly 15,690 restaurants are in our state, according to the National Restaurant Association. Estimated sales in 2018 were $13.5 billion, and food service jobs accounted for 10 percent of Washington's workforce.
The best restaurant in the state, according to the Daily Meal’s report, is Seattle's award-winning JuneBaby (located at 2122 NE 65th St).
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"Chef Edouardo Jordan is a veteran of Per Se and The French Laundry. He opened his first restaurant, Salare, in Seattle in 2015 and followed that up in 2017 with JuneBaby, a celebration of Southern food. The menu here looks like those of plenty of other Southern restaurants: buttermilk biscuits, boiled peanuts, pimento cheese, oxtails, catfish with greens, green gumbo with Gulf shrimp and fried chicken on Sundays. But this restaurant is so much more than that.
These Southern dishes are executed perfectly, with the precision and technique of a fine-dining chef, but they’re also telling a story. With the opening of JuneBaby, Jordan cemented himself as one of the country’s great chefs; so good, in fact, that he snagged two James Beard Awards in 2018: Best New Restaurant for JuneBaby and Best Chef: Northwest for Salare."
The Daily Meal only considered restaurants that served consistently excellent food across all aspects of the dining experience, had frequent menu changes, and showed a strong connection with their local community.
“Our list of the best restaurants of 2019 encompasses universally beloved fine dining restaurants, casual institutions where time stands still, perfect pizzerias both old and new, trendy must-visit, classic steakhouses as well as some of the very best restaurants to have opened this year,” an author of the report said.
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California had the most restaurants on the Daily Meal’s list with 12, followed by New York with 11.
The full list of restaurants is available on the Daily Meal.
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