48 Hours Eating Seattle's best Food!

Seattle might be America’s most slept-on food city, and this episode completely changed how I see it.

In this episode of my 2026 World Cup food series, I’m in Seattle, Washington, to find out whether this rainy, coffee-fuelled city might quietly have one of the best food scenes in North America.

Seattle is a proper food city. It has seafood, sandwiches, fried chicken, teriyaki, historic markets, bakeries, burgers, ice cream, serious pizza and that Pacific Northwest feeling where everything is a bit misty, a bit moody and somehow tastes better because of it.

I start at Market House Meats for one of the best corned beef sandwiches I’ve had on the entire trip. Proper old-school counter food, stacked meat, soft bread, mustard, salt, fat and the kind of sandwich that makes you question why corned beef does not get more respect.

Then I head to Cookie’s Country Chicken for a load of fried chicken. Crispy, juicy, golden, heavy in all the right ways, and exactly the sort of food that makes you forget it has probably rained for six months straight.