Musang (restaurant)
Musang is a Filipino restaurant in Seattle's Beacon Hill neighborhood, in the U.S. state of Washington. Description 
The menu has included buttermilk fried chicken, pork lumpia with sawsawan, short rib kare-kare basted with peanut butter bagoong, as well as vegetables in coconut sauce and vegan shrimp paste. Miranda incorporates a community-based approach to managing the restaurant, starting multiple community service efforts. Once the restaurant shut down at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, they provided over 200 meals a day. They funded this effort through community donations and grants. Even after re-opening, Miranda continued to provide free community meals. Furthermore, Miranda provides free Filipino food education programming for children through her Musang Little Wildcats program. History 
Chef and owner Melissa Miranda opened the restaurant in early 2020. Reception 
In November 2020, Musang was named Seattle Met's Restaurant of the Year. Food & Wine named Miranda one of eleven best new chefs in the United States for her work at the restaurant. In The Infatuation 2022 list of "The 25 Best Restaurants in Seattle", Aimee Rizzo wrote, "Eating at Musang is like being guests at a pal's dreamy dinner party" with "phenomenal takes on Filipino classics" that "make us want to stop everything and sing about them as if life were a movie musical". See also 

 Filipino-American cuisine
 List of Filipino restaurants

References 

2020 establishments in Washington (state)
Asian restaurants in Seattle
Beacon Hill, Seattle
Restaurants established in 2020
Filipino restaurants in the United States