Restaurants opening soon in Seattle (coming soon)

Recent signals have landed in Pioneer Square, International District, Capitol Hill, Westlake, Ballard, Belltown, Wallingford, and South Lake Union, and new ones surface every week.

The counts above come from the public record and are tallied each month in the openings ledger. If you want to read the record yourself, here is the order the five Seattle records appear in.

Soft launch

Each of these is licensed, and its own site or social page said it hadn't opened when we last checked. Opening dates slip, so confirm before you make the trip.

The next wave

Seattle food businesses with permits, inspections, or liquor applications on file, but no name yet. For each one: the concept, how far along it is, and the month its latest signal landed.

Restaurant × 4 · Seattle · Liquor application filed, expect a bar program, signals dated September 2026 – October 2026
Tobacco / Vape · Seattle · Liquor application filed, expect a bar program, signal dated September 2026
Full-Service Restaurant × 2 · Seattle · Building out, signals dated September 2026 – October 2026
Restaurant × 2 · Seattle · Building out, signals dated September 2026
Café / Snack Shop · Seattle · Building out, signal dated September 2026

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How we know what's opening

How do we know a restaurant is opening in Seattle before it's announced? Restaurants leave a paper trail months before opening day: building permits for the kitchen build-out, a business license, health inspections, and liquor applications. We read the King County record every week and fuse those filings into one row per business. Every date shown is the date on the filing itself.

When will each of these restaurants open? We publish an opening date only when the business states one itself, on its own site or social pages. For everything else we show how far along the record says it is: a completed build-out or a health inspection usually means weeks out, an early permit usually means months.

How current is this list? It is rebuilt from the King County record every week, and this page was last updated October 12, 2026. Once a spot opens, it moves to the Seattle openings page.

How can I get a list of new businesses before they open in King County? MorningSheet reads the King County permit and license filings and sends each new business, with the owner's direct line where we have verified it, to one sales rep per territory, exclusive for 7 days. There is a free sample of this week's top leads, and the first month is free with no card.

Watching for a specific name? We keep a dated public-record tracker on Dutch Bros Seattle, Trader Joe's Northgate, Paris Baguette Northgate, Erewhon Seattle, In-N-Out Seattle, Cava Seattle, Molly Moon's Northgate, Chipotle Queen Anne, Chipotle Downtown Seattle.

Already open? See every recent Seattle opening, the Seattle weekly openings roundup, or the full new businesses in Seattle feed.