"Decades after the Banh siblings broke new ground in Seattle by using local ingredients and insisting a Vietnamese restaurant didn’t have to be cheap, Monsoon (with one location in Capitol Hill and one in Bellevue) remains a fun spot for Vietnamese brunch, lunch, and dinner. Weekends mean dim sum brunch with dumplings, buns, pho, banh mi, and experimental cocktails like a pho-infused Bloody Mary. The lemongrass vermicelli noodles bowls or the kabocha squash and taro curry are nutritious lunchtime options. If you stop by for dinner, go for the seasonal seafood specials like the Saigon Dungeness crab, the catfish claypot, and the claypot clams." - Alicia Erickson