Hungry for information? Welcome to our Friday Feed, the place we run via all of the native meals and restaurant information this week—and possibly assist you determine the place to eat this weekend.
Remembering Binh Dang of Inexperienced Tree
Binh Dang, one of many homeowners of Greenwood’s Inexperienced Tree Vietnamese Restaurant, handed away on February 9 on the age of 48. Inexperienced Tree opened in early 2020 and shortly turned a go-to for brilliant salads and silky bánh cuốn. Popping out of pandemic restrictions, the pleasant service and willingness to drop off takeout orders subsequent door at Flying Bike Cooperative Brewery cemented its place as a Greenwood favourite. The restaurant is briefly closed, with out phrase on when it’d reopen.
Do Folks Hate Pizza Now?
For the second time in two weeks, my analysis into rumors a couple of new restaurant revealed that on-line haters actually don’t need extra pizza of their neighborhood. Final week, it was about Cornelly coming to Queen Anne, this week the commenters on a West Seattle Weblog submit concerning the Neighborhood changing the long-closed Press & Peel say the ‘hood is full up on that style. That is ridiculous; there isn’t a such factor as an excessive amount of pizza, plus the restaurant comes from a pair of restaurateurs deeply concerned in West Seattle’s meals scene, Jenny and Ahmed Almukhtar. Each had been companions within the Bridge, he was a chef at Talarico’s and is now at Cactus. She additionally labored elsewhere within the area, together with as a supervisor at Mama Stortini’s. Not solely is pizza good (which makes these complaints absurd), however a follow-up submit clarifies that the restaurant may have far more than simply pies.
As Lengthy As They Don’t Hate Espresso, Too
West Seattle Weblog was busy this week, as a result of in addition they broke the information about Hagosa’s Home, a espresso store that Feaven Berhe plans to open this month within the former Pearls location on Delridge. The web site for Hagosa’s Home explains it’s named after Berhe’s grandmother and can honor her Eritrean heritage.
After A lot Clucking, Recreation of Rooster Ends
With the closure of the ultimate remaining location of Heaven Despatched Fried Rooster on the finish of February, Seattle’s most storied fried rooster feud involves a tragic finish. Heaven Despatched, which at one level had three places, was opened by Ezell Stephens after he cut up from the rooster chain that also carries his identify. Stephens opened Ezell’s, now 18 places robust, along with his spouse and brother-in-law, Lewis Rudd. After a divorce, the enterprise partnership broke up, too, leading to a lawsuit and settlement granting Rudd use of Ezell’s identify. Each continued making the rooster as soon as declared one of the best by Oprah Winfrey and plenty of many years of Garfield Excessive Faculty college students. Having been a kind of college students and having reported on the rivalry for years, my take is that Stephens fries a imply wing, however there’s extra to enterprise than maintaining the biscuits scorching.
No Sinigang At this time
Pike Place Market’s most interesting Filipino lunch counter, Oriental Mart is closed till April 15 for Tita Leila’s annual journey again to the Philippines. The beloved 54-year-old restaurant, honored in 2020 by the James Beard Basis as an American Traditional, closes round this time annually for Leila Rosas, the lady and magic behind the counter, to go to her homeland.
Oh, BTW, right here’s what you missed final week.
