MorningSheetSeattle restaurant openings by month
One page per month: who opened, what filed, and how the count moved.
In August 2026, 8 restaurants and food businesses opened in Seattle and 10 filed to start build-out.
Every month we publish one entry: the Seattle, Tacoma and Everett food businesses that opened, by name, the count of Seattle food businesses that filed for a build-out permit, and the concepts behind both. Numbers change slowly and the archive stays put, so a month you read once stays where you left it.
Seattle permit applications, 24 months
Every month
How we count
Counts come from the public record we track across King, Pierce and Snohomish counties. Permit counts are comparable back to January 2024; license counts widened in coverage in early 2026, so we do not compare them year over year yet. Figures as of September 5, 2026.