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WA · Lunch
A good lunch gets two hours of your afternoon back. A bad one costs three and you spend it wishing you'd eaten at your desk. Harry has done the triage so you don't have to.
The Seattle lunch hour is the Pike Place fish situation for visitors and the International District for everyone else. The Vietnamese pho at eleven-thirty costs eleven dollars and takes fifteen minutes. The Japanese ramen counter that opens at eleven has a line by eleven-fifteen. Both are faster than the tourist stuff.
| Time value | Lunch has one rule: you have to be back. Harry accounts for service speed — a venue that takes ninety minutes to get through a two-course set is a dinner restaurant wearing a lunch menu. Great food at the wrong pace is still a bad lunch. |
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| Harry Score | The composite score from Google, Yelp, Tripadvisor and critic signals — but weighted for lunch-appropriate venues. A Michelin-starred dinner restaurant that runs a mediocre midday service scores lower here than the counter spot that does one thing at lunch and does it perfectly. |
| Worth It score | Lunch should not cost dinner prices. Harry's Worth It score flags places that charge a reasonable amount for what they deliver — and flags the ones that decided a sandwich is worth twenty-eight dollars because it comes with a view of the open kitchen. |
West Lake Plaza Building, 1518 4th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
517 South Main St, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
164 S Washington St, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
75 Yesler Wy, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
307 Occidental Ave S, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
80 Yesler Wy, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
1510 7th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
1511 Pike Pl, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
504 5th Ave S Unit 118, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
95 Pine St, Seattle, WA 98101, USA