Tons of (really good-sounding) new Seattle restaurants and bars!

• BAR SAJOR • Pioneer Square: Bar Sajor (pronounced SIGH-your) is brought to you by Matt Dillon (Sitka & Spruce and the Corson Building, one of Food & Wine's 10 best new chefs in 2007, and James Beard Best Chef Northwest 2012). The lovely, high-ceilinged space is a bar in the Spanish or Portuguese sense of being a bar, Dillon says, "a casual place for simple food," one where you stop by and have a conversation and a drink and a snack, or lunch, or supper, instead of, say, drinking until you can't see straight at 2 a.m. (Pioneer Square's already set for that.) It has a wood-fired oven and a wood-fired grill and rotisserie for lots of chicken—no stove and no range. Also: flatbread, simple roasted vegetables, house-made yogurt, a little raw or cured seafood, and "lots of naturally fermented goodness," like whey-fermented pickles. Also-also, eventually: a to-go window. (323 Occidental Ave S, 682-1117, barsajor.com, $$–$$$)

• MIYABI 45TH • Wallingford: Mutsuko Soma, formerly of Harvest Vine, Chez Shea, and Saito's, partnered with the well-regarded, Tukwila-based Miyabi Sushi to bring the world Miyabi 45th (in the former Rain Sushi space). Soma moved back to her native Japan to study making traditional buckwheat soba noodles, and in the process learned that Washington is the largest producer of buckwheat in the US (who knew?). Now she's making her own soba using local grain at Miyabi 45th, along with assorted izakaya dishes (including deer tataki and a skewer of duck hearts). It all sounds really good. (2208 N 45th St, 632-4545, miyabi45th.com, $$)

• HUMMINGBIRD SALOON • Columbia City: Right near Full Tilt, the Hummingbird Saloon specializes in Cornish pasties (YUM). The name reportedly came from...

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