The College District is house to a whole lot of Seattle’s greatest reasonably priced eating places, so once they all get collectively and throw a celebration, even stereotypically broke school college students can attend. And this Saturday, September 28, the neighborhood is placing on a shindig referred to as the U District Chow Down & Avenue Get together from 11 a.m. to eight p.m. with low cost meals at its heart.
This occasion was referred to as the U District Meals Stroll however the primary premise is identical — a whole lot of eating places and cafes and bars supply $5 “bites” throughout the social gathering hours. This will imply something from hen teriyaki at BB’s Teriyaki Grill to a pear cinnamon open-faced bagel sandwich at Toasted. And for the reason that Ave and the encompassing space is floor zero for boba tea, there’s no fewer than 9 totally different $5 boba offers on supply.
Along with the meals, there will probably be music on the Chow Down Predominant Stage, together with the Garfield Excessive Faculty and Rainbow Metropolis jazz bands, in line with a press launch; there may also be an afterparty on Northeast forty second Avenue that includes the “tequila funk” band Reposado. Observe that parking throughout the occasion may be very troublesome, however the gentle rail is like, proper there.
Now for extra information of the week:
Moto heads to the Eastside
Final yr when Eater Seattle profiled Lee Kindell, the man behind Moto Pizza — then so in demand there was a months-long ready listing to order it — he talked like somebody attempting to construct an empire; he had secured some seed funding by way of enterprise capital and was planning on making Moto right into a bona fide chain, the place perhaps robots made the pizza? Properly, Moto is increasing at a reasonably quick clip: It opened a Belltown location final summer time (with a robotic), and on October 4 will probably be opening a pizzeria contained in the Bellevue Sq. mall (on the primary flooring, subsequent to Nordstrom). Oh, and Moto is now providing supply as effectively.
Familyfriend will get a ‘New York Instances’ nod
The New York Instances dropped its listing of the 50 greatest eating places in America this week, and one Seattle place received excessive reward: Familyfriend, the Guamanian restaurant in Beacon Hill that has grow to be well-known for its smash burgers. The Instances singled out the burgers but in addition the cocktails, the doughnuts, and the batchoy, “an envelopingly unctuous noodle soup of pig offal and fermented shrimp broth.” Familyfriend doesn’t take reservations, so the road to get in — already lengthy throughout peak hours — is about to get longer.
Bagel-makers settle lawsuit
Earlier this month the information got here out that Andrew Rubinstein was suing his former enterprise accomplice, Ethan Stowell Eating places, for hundreds of {dollars} he stated he was owed. That dispute seems to have been quashed, and the 2 events have settled, in line with Puget Sound Enterprise Journal. Rubinstein offered his stake in his namesake enterprise, Rubinstein Bagels, final yr and plans on opening a brand new bagel store in College Village referred to as Hey Bagel this winter.
