Bar del Corso
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The comfortable, intimate Beacon Hill bar specializing in Neapolitan-style pizza is taking full benefit of the recent crop of produce with savory small plates like roasted asparagus, roasted artichokes, and nettle farrotto with king trumpet mushrooms, plus elegant, unfussy desserts like rhubarb polenta cake and buttermilk panna cotta with huckleberry compote.
Beacon Hill
Ben’s Bread
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Whether or not or not you have a good time Easter, you may wish to hightail it over to Ben Campbell’s lauded Phinney bakery this weekend to get your fingers on vibrant, sunny specials like citrus bars, carrot cake, passionfruit bomboloni, rhubarb vanilla cake, Meyer lemon poppyseed almond scones, and yuzu raspberry shortcakes with vanilla whipped cream, out there Friday via Sunday whereas provides final.
Phinney Ridge
The Flora Bakehouse
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Cafe Flora
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‘s bakery sibling goes all out for the season with specials like a jammy strawberry rhubarb cream cheese Danish, violet lemon milk bread buns, and marionberry cornbread muffins, in addition to drinks just like the “Spring Flowers” latte and iced mango matcha. Attempt having fun with them on the upstairs patio to take in some additional vitamin D.
Beacon Hill
Kemi Dessert Bar
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Pastry chef Kelly Miao’s pleasant Asian-inspired bakery, which Stranger contributor Michael Wong not too long ago dubbed “the perfect sugar excessive on Capitol Hill,” simply launched an “extremely lush” Earl Gray milk chocolate Basque cheesecake that I am unable to wait to strive, made with 40% Valrhona milk chocolate and topped off with a dollop of orange zest-spiked whipped cream and a sprinkle of blue cornflower petals. It is out there via the top of April.
Capitol Hill
Lioness
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Should you favor your spring cocktails on the savory, herbaceous aspect, look no additional than this Renee Erickson joint’s new gimlet-inspired “Demone Verde,” which options gin, lime, Faccia Brutto Centerbe (a Chartreuse-esque liqueur), Kapriol (one other natural liqueur with piney juniper berry and mountain herbs), a peppery parsley arugula syrup, and black lemon bitters.
Phinney Ridge
Marination
Marination’s plump, sugar-dusted malasadas are at all times a fan favourite, they usually’re at present serving a variation full of a fruity, floral sakura cream filling, out there in any respect places for a restricted time. (Observe that the Alki location solely serves malasadas Thursday via Sunday, “except in any other case posted on the register.”)
Columbia Metropolis, Denny Triangle, West Seattle
Paper Cake Store
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Paper Cake’s carrot cake, out there via the top of the month, ups the ante on a permanent basic with a carrot sponge cake base, tangy pineapple jam, 5 spice cream cheese buttercream filling, coconut frosting, carrot gelée, and crunchy candied coconut flakes.
Wallingford
Petit Pierre Bakery
This charming French bakeshop is paying homage to the ever-present pink blooms with its strawberry sakura supreme. Impressed by the viral supreme croissant (a spherical spiral cream-filled croissant originated by Lafayette Grand Cafe and Bakery in New York Metropolis), the gorgeous pastry is full of sakura pastry cream and house-made strawberry compote.
Magnolia, Phinney Ridge
Rosellini’s Nice Desserts & Baked Items
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Ballard’s beloved cafe and bakery has just a few specials for spring and Easter weekend, together with scorching cross buns and challah (out there April 18–20) and a stunning rhubarb pistachio cream cake (out there April 19–20).
Ballard
