Celebrating Seattle's best restaurants and eateries with recipes and photographs Hot chefs are setting the Seattle restaurant scene ablaze. With innovative ideas and culinary surprises, the city's most heralded restaurants and eateries continue adding spark to an already sizzling food scene. From James Beard winners Holly Smith and Maria Hines. to Chris Mills who competed on the original Japanese Iron Chefin Tokyo, and restaurants like Volterra, which Rachael Ray named one of her "favorite restaurants in the world," the Emerald City is filled with celebrity chefs, heralded restaurants, and Food Network star eateries that serve up delicious cuisine to locals and tourists, day in and day out. Seattle Chef's Tableis the first cookbook to gather Seattle's best chefs and restaurants under one cover. Profiling signature "at home" recipes from almost fifty legendary dining establishments, the book is also a celebration of the growing sustainable food movement in the Pacific Northwest. With full-color photos throughout highlighting fabulous dishes, famous chefs, and Seattle landmarks, this book is the ideal ode to the city's coveted food culture and atmosphere.

James O. Fraioli is the award-winning author of fifteen cookbooks, including Wild Alaskan Seafood (Lyons Press) and Trattoria Grappolo and Ocean Friendly Cuisine. His cookbooks have been presented at the White House and been featured in the New York Times and on the Food Network and the Ellen DeGeneres Show. He lives in Seattle, Washington. Visit him at culinarybookcreations.com.