Chefs to Watch 2020: Aaron Verzosa and Amber Manuguid, Archipelago, Seattle

Archipelago opened two years ago, serving a Filipino-Northwest tasting menu at its South Seattle counter complete with the usual high-end, small restaurant rigamarole: dishes plated with tweezers, name-dropping of local farms, and an explanation of the food as Chef Aaron Verzosa and his wife, Amber Manuguid, serve it. But in place of odes to terroir and ingredient worship, they gently guided diners on a journey through Filipino-American history in the...