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Cuisine of Seattle refers to the food and culinary traditions of Seattle, Washington. The city blending Pacific Northwest seafood with global influences from its immigrant communities. Iconic eats range from seafood at Pike Place Market to Asian American cuisine - Mainstays of Seattle include Seattle-style hot dog, Seattle roll, Teriyaki, and Clam Chowder from Pike Place Chowder.
Pike Market
[edit]Pike Place Market in Seattle is known for a wide variety of foods that reflect both its role as a historic public market and its access to Pacific Northwest ingredients. The market features iconic seafood offerings such as clam chowder, salmon, crab, and other seafood-based dishes, along with prepared foods like sandwiches, baked goods, and international street foods.[1]
Seattle-style Hot dog
[edit]Seattle-style hot dog has cream cheese and topped with caramelized onions and jalapeño.[2] In Seattle, the dogs are sold from food carts, especially outside stadiums on game day and as a late-night meal outside the city's music venues.
Seattle roll
[edit]A Seattle roll is a makizushi roll[3] The fundamental recipe consists of raw salmon and cream cheese, usually along with cucumber and/or avocado, and masago or tobiko. Variations include ingredients such as smoked or seared salmon.[4][5][6] Like many Western-inspired sushi rolls, the ingredients and name are based on an American market.[7]
Asian influence
[edit]Asian influence is a major foundation of Seattle’s food culture because the city’s long-standing role as a Pacific port and center of immigration created strong ties with East and Southeast Asia, especially from China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and the Philippines. These communities shaped everyday dining in Seattle, from early Chinese restaurants that helped establish local “eating out” culture, to the development of Seattle-style teriyaki, a fast, affordable adaptation of Japanese cuisine that became a city staple, to the growth of Vietnamese pho shops,[8] Korean barbecue restaurants, and pan-Asian fusion cooking. Seattle’s access to Pacific seafood also blended with Asian culinary techniques, contributing to sushi styles that often feature local salmon, crab, and other regional ingredients. Over time, these influences didn’t remain separate cuisines but merged into the broader identity of Seattle food, where Asian flavors, Pacific Northwest ingredients, and casual, accessible dining formats define much of what the city eats today.[9]
Coffee
[edit]Seattle is regarded as a world center for coffee roasting and coffee supply chain management.[10] Seattle’s early relationship with coffee dates back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when it was a booming port city.[11]. Coffee arrived through maritime trade routes and became a common staple in working-class dockside cafés and diners. It wasn’t yet distinctive—just part of everyday urban life in a growing industrial city.[12]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Pike Place Market Restaurants Guide". Seattle Met. SagaCity Media. Retrieved 9 May 2026.
- ↑ https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1026997-seattle-style-hot-dogs?smid=share-url
- ↑ Atkinson, Greg (September 9, 2007). "Beyond PB&J". The Seattle Times Pacific Northwest Sunday Magazine. Retrieved February 3, 2010.
- ↑ "Sushi". The Spokesman-Review. December 6, 2006. pp. D1 & D3.
- ↑ Durr, Chris (October 18, 2007). "Blue C Sushi". Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
- ↑ Samson, Karl (2009). Frommer's Seattle 2010. John Wiley & Sons. p. 105. ISBN 978-0-470-49771-5.
- ↑ Laemmerhirt, Iris-Aya (2010). "Imagining the Taste: Transnational Food Exchanges between Japan and the United States". The Japanese Journal of American Studies. 21: 12.
- ↑ "A culinary pho-nomenon: The history of pho in Seattle". MyNorthwest.com. November 4, 2014. Archived from the original on October 18, 2016. Retrieved November 17, 2016.
- ↑ "Seattle City Guide: Where to Eat in Seattle". Eater Seattle. Vox Media. Retrieved 9 May 2026.
- ↑ Holden, Brad (26 July 2023). "The History of Coffee in Seattle". www.historylink.org. HistoryLink.
- ↑ "Port of Seattle History / Early Maritime Development". HistoryLink.org. HistoryLink. Retrieved 9 May 2026.
From the start Seattle relied on moving both natural resources and people across the water to fuel its economy. When the Denny Party came to Elliott Bay in 1851, they found an excellent deep-water harbor.
- ↑ "Seattle Artifacts: The Man Behind the Door". Seattle magazine. Seattle magazine. Retrieved 9 May 2026.
- ↑ "1st And Pike". Starbucks Coffee Company. Starbucks. Archived from the original on March 25, 2019.