Restaurants in Inglewood-Finn Hill

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Rosebud resides just west of the Harvard Market, boasting an outdoor patio and a red-walled lounge where local art hangs above striped, cushiony couches. Accents of jazz emanate through the air while roses stand within curvaceous glass vases that complement a patron's perusal of the menu, which is filled with savory classics. A spinach salad with spiced walnuts, goat cheese, and a raspberry-balsamic vinaigrette ($7) lays fresh foliage on an appetite, preparing the way for fire-roasted prawn cocktails with jicama-carrot slaw and golden beet–horseradish puree ($10), and baked mac and cheese with smoked gouda influences ($9). Bone-in pork loins are paired with roasted parsnips and apples ($19), while vegetable aficionados can indulge in a three-cheese vegetarian lasagna baked with marinara and béchamel sauces ($15).

Wrap taste buds around an impressive lineup of savories, including vegetable ratatouille under melted imported Swiss cheese, herb butter, and fresh spinach ($6.95), and scrambled-egg crêpes draped in a subtle mushroom sauce ($5.75). Smoked-wild-salmon-lox crêpes with crème fraiche and lemon ($7.25) punctuate brunch-time bites alongside the semi-sweet cooked-apple crêpe with a dash of maple syrup and imported Swiss ($6.50). Make the leap to full-on sweet with dulce-de-leche caramel crêpes topped with real whipped cream ($4.50), or dark-chocolate crêpes with raspberry sauce, chopped hazelnuts, and real whipped cream ($5.95), among many others. Locally made ice cream and hot and cold drinks are also available.

For the benefit of wines rich and wines sweet, Cellar 46º unfolds a menu of savory indulgences. Pick up a mealtime preamble such as hot crab dip with artichokes baked under a melted sea of havarti cheese ($12) or the poached pear and gorgonzola salad marinated in red wine with cinnamon and nutmeg ($12). Larger cravings look toward roasted pork loin stuffed with spinach and mushrooms alongside whipped Yukon gold potatoes ($21), while veggie-minded diners can pair a glass of Villa Diana Pinot Grigio ($8) with the breaded eggplant Napolean, which is layered with roasted red peppers, spinach, and chevre ($17).

Kokoras’s menu lets you kick off your tongue’s tour of the Greek islands in five-alarm style with an “Opa!”-inducing plate of saganaki (flaming Greek cheese with pita, $9.50). Non-pyromaniac diners will prefer the youvarlakia (poached pork meatballs, $4.50) and traditional dolmadakia (a pair of stuffed grape leaves, $3) instead. As part of its 12 Labors, help your Herculean stomach slay the hunger hydra with a traditional gyro ($8) or a hefty souvlaki dinner platter (lamb, beef tenders, chicken breast, or pork marinated and grilled, with salad, pita, and Greek fries or rice pilaf; $18.50). Vegetarians can likewise fill up for a night of circle dancing and plate smashing with a falafel dinner platter ($15) and a vegetarian sandwich (grilled eggplant, red peppers, zucchini, and mushrooms, with olive tapenade and optional feta cheese; $10). Bookend your Olympian repast with pita bread ($2) slathered in tzatziki or taramasalata ($1 each) and finish up with a cup of Greek coffee ($3) and the dessert of the day ($3.50–$5.50).

Brasserie Margaux executive chef Michael White conjures a French-inspired menu of delectable dishes from a harvest of fresh Northwest ingredients, which he in turn conjures from the very air itself. Start the day off sweetly with a breakfast of malted-honey Margaux waffle ($9) drizzled with marion-berry syrup, or indulge in a luxurious lunch of pan-seared halibut ($15) cooked in a white wine and lemon fume. White's decadent dinner menu kicks things off with steamed clams or mussels ($7) in a butter and white wine sauce and panko-crusted crab cakes ($14) served with jalapeño aioli before moving on to eclectic entrees. Everything from the lemon-basil-butter salmon ($24) to the Dungeness-crab-covered filet mignon ($35) will find a leggy tango partner on the brasserie's extensive wine menu. Herbivores, meanwhile, can abide by their uneasy peace treaty with cows by ordering wild-mushroom crêpes ($16) stuffed with ricotta with a goat-cheese fondue. Brasserie Margaux's signature dessert of "perfect" profiteroles ($6) topped with whipped-cream peaks and glazed with dark chocolate mark a satisfying completion to any meal or intra-restaurant reenactment of the signing of the Constitution.