Hungry for information? Welcome to our Friday Feed, the place we run by means of all of the native meals and restaurant information this week—and perhaps assist you determine the place to eat this weekend.
Do Good, Eat Good
No one wants extra causes to eat breakfast at Cafe Flora, lunch at Tivoli, and/or dinner at Cafe Munir in the present day. However right here’s a very good one: They’re among the many greater than 150 eating places, bars, and pop-ups in and round Seattle coming collectively in the present day to lift funds for immigrant rights. Every of the eating places will donate a portion of their gross sales or the proceeds from a menu merchandise to an area nonprofit. Northwest Immigrant Rights Undertaking is known as because the beneficiary, although taking part venues can select to direct the cash to different native nonprofits advancing immigrant causes. Discover extra information right here, together with the total listing of taking part places (a few of whom can be persevering with the trouble by means of the weekend).
At this time is a good day to eat out and help immigrant rights.
Apart from having common empathy for fellow people, immigrants’ rights matter deeply to the restaurant business. Knowledge from a 2024 transient by the Nationwide Restaurant Affiliation estimated that 21 p.c of restaurant staff are immigrants, a quantity that doesn’t even think about undocumented staff, nor those that get the meals to eating places by means of work in agriculture, manufacturing, and transportation. Because the late Anthony Bourdain as soon as identified, “If Mr. Trump deports 11 million individuals or no matter he’s speaking about proper now, each restaurant in America would shut down.”
Nonetheless Doing Good
Six months after her passing, chef Tamara Murphy’s work serving to the following era of cooks continues. The primary ever Tamara Murphy Meals Is Love Scholarship opened for functions this week, a partnership between the GSBA and Seattle Culinary Academy that can help LQBTQ+ college students on the faculty.
Colourful Laurel serves croissants and appears.
Comings and Goings
Cute Overload: The tiny Olive Manner area as soon as dwelling to Crumble & Flake Café Pâtisserie is as soon as once more slinging croissants. Kate Opatz, the design-minded entrepreneur behind bars Montana, La Dive, and Wealthy Wealthy, opened Laurel final week. Proper now, it serves baked items from the French Guys and low from Broadcast; it should have a full bar and cocktails beginning Monday.
Bye-Bye Burger: Burgermaster has introduced the schedule for closing its NE 45th Road location, simply east of College Village. After 73 years, it should serve its final burger on Sunday, February 23.
Hiya, Burger: Fret not, you’ll nonetheless be capable of get a burger within the U-District, as McDonald’s has utilized for a allow to rework the previous location of Flowers.
Lunch Bunch: Jhonny Reyes first obtained momentum for his Lenox pop-ups along with his sandwiches, earlier than settling right into a extra refined menu at his Belltown brick-and-mortar (and considered one of 2024’s finest new eating places). Now, his Cuban and others return because the restaurant launches its weekend lunch.
All Skied Out: Seattle’s solely ski lodge–themed bar, Woodsky’s, made its remaining turns in Fremont final week, chalking the closure as much as “unlucky circumstances.”
Oh, BTW, right here’s what you missed final week.
