The $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen. “It’s a machine designed to be extremely basic, extremely customizable, and extremely affordable.” It’s also designed to patina (i.e. age gracefully).

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With crispy carnitas, complex mole, Earl Grey horchata, and more

If you think that Seattle lacks good Mexican food, you need to get back in your time machine, wave goodbye to the Kingdome, and return to the present day. The Mexican food scene may not have the depth and breadth of that of Los Angeles or Austin, but there’s plenty of good Mexican here if you known where to look. There’s top-notch carne asada, satisfying enchiladas, and rich mole dishes that thrill with sweet, toasty, and spicy flavors.

New to this map as of April 2025 are Mexican Seoul, a relatively new taco truck parked outside Project 9 brewery in Maple Leaf, and Tacos Chukis, a mini chain of taquerias that are popular for good reason. We also removed Mezcaleria Oaxaca in Capitol Hill and the one-person operation Antojitos Lita Rosita because they closed; additionally, Frelard Tamales gets a new writeup because it’s moved into a full brick-and-mortar restaurant. As a reminder, many these places serve great tacos, but this is not a taco map — for that, go here.

Know of a spot that should be on our radar? Send us a tip by emailing seattle@eater.com. As usual, this list is not ranked; it’s organized geographically.

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For The Guardian, the film critic Guy Lodge has complied a list of 25 films that “shed light on the US under Trump”. From the introduction by filmmaker Alex Gibney:

This is a dire moment in the US. It’s a moment where there’s an opportunity for people with a lot of money to rip apart all of the guidelines enacted by the Roosevelt administration, way back in the day, to guard against the brutality of unfettered capitalism. Capitalists like to have all the power that they want, whenever they want it. They’re not much interested in democracy either, it turns out. Nor, apparently, the rule of law. The government is not the solution — it’s the problem. And now a vengeful president who just wanted a get-out-of-jail-free card is going to punish his enemies and show us all how to destroy the American administrative state by using the big stick of Elon Musk’s chequebook.

Here are a few of the films and their trailers — you can check out the article for the rest.

I Am Not Your Negro (Raoul Peck, 2016):

Election (Alexander Payne, 1999):

White Noise (Daniel Lombroso, 2020) {Note: this is not the DeLillo adaptation}:

American Factory (Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar, 2019):

I’m curious…what films would you add to the list?

Tags: 2025 Coup · Alex Gibney · Donald Trump · Guy Lodge · lists · movies · politics

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Here’s where the locals actually eat

We put out lists of Seattle restaurants all the time — the best restaurants, the best new restaurants, the best cocktail bars, and so on. This list is a little different. It’s meant to exist outside of the hype cycle that we are sometimes (accidentally, regretfully) a part of. It’s not an attempt to tell you about what’s hot or what’s new or what’s best. It’s a list of restaurants that have succeeded and endured for so long that they’ve become a part of the Seattle landscape. These are places that every local knows, even if we don’t all like all of these places. They define Seattle cuisine. They are where people actually eat.

In April 2025 we did a total overhaul of this map, which had gone years without an update. We’ve expanded and revamped the list and rewrote every entry to be current. We probably left some places off that should be on here, please let us know which ones by emailing seattle@eater.com.

I was wearing a light blue chambray shirt from J.Crew on the night I first met my wife. It was 2016, and I’d just turned 25. And, having bought the shirt with my first substantial freelance paycheck, I wore it everywhere: to interviews, on road trips and airplanes, on assignments, and, evidently, to dinner parties on the Upper East Side.

Amid the squall of untucked gingham shirts and Patagonia vests in style at the time, the textured ruggedness of chambray jumped out at me when I saw this shirt on the rack. It felt like something that belonged in the closet of Indiana Jones or Robert Redford rather than in my own. Something about the irregularity of its yarns and its not-quite-slim fit felt impossibly cool yet unpretentious, at ease without looking careless, elegant yet decidedly not fussy. It was, in short, everything I was not and everything I wanted to be.

For nearly 10 years, I wore this shirt, almost to tatters. Over time, the cloth faded to a pale, whitish shade of blue, the fabric at the elbows became almost sheer, and the hems started to unfurl. But I refused to give up on my longtime staple.

So I returned to J.Crew to buy a replacement, and in its place I found something new: a chambray shirt full of small improvements yet still bearing all the charm of the one I had bought in my 20s.

Move over Ford Edsel, Pontiac Aztek, and AMC Pacer, there’s a new automotive flop in town: the dumpster-forward Tesla Cybertruck.

After a little over a year on the market, sales of the 6,600-pound vehicle, priced from $82,000, are laughably below what Musk predicted. Its lousy reputation for quality — with eight recalls in the past 13 months, the latest for body panels that fall off — and polarizing look made it a punchline for comedians. Unlike past auto flops that just looked ridiculous or sold badly, Musk’s truck is also a focal point for global Tesla protests spurred by the billionaire’s job-slashing DOGE role and MAGA politics.

“It’s right up there with Edsel,” said Eric Noble, president of consultancy CARLAB and a professor at ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California (Tesla design chief Franz von Holzhausen, who styled Cybertruck for Musk, is a graduate of its famed transportation design program). “It’s a huge swing and a huge miss.”

It’s impossible for me to drive past one of these things without laughing at and/or mocking it. I was out driving with my daughter last week and a Cybertruck came into view and before I could even say anything, she said, “it’s just so *bad*”. (via @mims.bsky.social)

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