Several meals per night. Many pairs of pants (in different sizes). Balancing fast days with eating marathons. Here’s what it’s really like to be a food critic.

La Marea, a marisqueria at Fair Isle Brewing in Ballard that showcases Mexican seafood dishes and fusion takes, comes from the team behind Tacos Extranjeros.

This Neighborhood Eats dispatch ventures north to Lynnwood for dill-and-pork dumplings, kalbi-marinated ribs and a gingery beef salad. Follow along!

These delightful brownies are a riff on a Martha Stewart recipe, tweaked by Annie Marshall of Everyday Annie.

This colorful, vegetable-filled dish has all the flavors of ratatouille but requires a lot less work to get there.

It’s been a busy year for Canlis as the fine-dining restaurant eyes its 75th anniversary. After a leadership shakeup, including a new chef, where is the restaurant going now?

Kate’s Pub, a longtime watering hole on Northeast 45th Street in the heart of Wallingford, will have its final last call — ever — at the end of October.

Happy hour is an all-season sport, but autumn feels like prime time for some extra early evening happiness — critic Bethany Jean Clement has three great ones.

These breakfast tacos are so satisfying that you’d actually pay $10 for it if you saw it on a brunch menu.

Traditionally, nashif rubian is scooped up with Arabic khobez (or flatbread), but some fluffy white rice will also do well to soak up the flavorful sauce.