In the News

You can read a bit about us in the following publications:

August 2026 - Seattle Met features Cafe Juanita in an article about James Beard Award-Winners in Seattle

October 2025 - Aimee Rizzo reviews Cafe Juanita for Infatuation

October 2023 - Dean Paton reports on Chef Holly’s work to restore and protect the bank of Juanita Creek for the Christian Science Monitor

January 2023 - Profile of Cafe Juanita in Toast’s blog about women-led restaurants

December 2022 - KOMO news took a closer look at Cafe Juanita’s ‘20 years of elegant excellence.’

October 2022 - King-5 reports on Chef Holly’s work with King Conservation District and Adopt-a-Stream to restore the stream bank of Juanita Creek, which runs through the restaurant property

July 2020- Read Chef Holly’s opinion piece on The Eater Seattle about restaurants staying closed during the COVID-19 pandemic

October 2019 - GQ magazine’s list of Outstanding Restaurants: Too Old to be New, To New to be Institutions

November 2013 - Seattle Times/Town Hall Seattle and Seattle Library present Still Crazy Good After All This Time - Video by Genevieve Alvarez: Spend the morning with Cafe Juanita's Holly Smith as she discusses the importance of subtle nuances, consistency and believing in one's self. Click here.

January 2013 - Art Culinaire features Chef Holly Smith and Cafe Juanita's pasta with 9 recipes including the cover.  

July 2012 - The New York Times picked up a blog post about our carne cruda.

November 2011 - 425 Magazine takes a look in Holly's home kitchen

March 2007 - 425 Magazine takes a look inside Cafe Juanita