As you undoubtedly noticed in Eater Seattle’s anticipated fall 2024 openings (and fall 2023), the beloved Capitol Hill restaurant Marjorie is returning this yr after closing within the spring of 2023. In a press convention at the moment, Marjorie proprietor Donna Moodie joined Mayor Bruce Harrell; Daniel Marsh, the CEO of Develop America; and Vicki Foege, vice chairman and Northwest program officer for international philanthropy and JP Morgan Chase, to speak in regards to the reopening and the restaurant’s participation within the metropolis’s “first-in-the-nation” Enterprise Neighborhood Possession Fund to get its new location up and working. The restaurant is anticipated to reopen formally later this month.
Marjorie is the primary restaurant to take part. In accordance with a press launch from town of Seattle, the fund is a “program [that] helps small companies by decreasing tenant prices, growing enterprise incomes, and fostering financial stability.” It was developed to deal with the difficulty of rising industrial rents, acknowledging that these prices are most definitely to affect “neighborhoods and companies owned by individuals of shade, immigrants, ladies, and LGBTQ+ individuals.” The fund invested in Majorie relocating to an area within the Central District. Extra to return on that.
Doing good pays off
Talking of recognition, Spice Walla, which has areas round Seattle, was given the King County Small Enterprise of the 12 months award. Uttam Mukherjee and Aakanksha Sinha, a husband and spouse duo, personal it. Up to now, the restaurant’s Bhojan program has supplied over 46,000 meals to these in want by partnerships with Seattle non-profits. events will help proceed these with a $5 donation and in addition cease in for Indian, within the fashion of Calcutta, the place Mukherjee is from, and New Delhi, from which Sinha hails.
A Filipino pop-up arrives in South Lake Union
Chef Gerald Gutierrez of the Astra Lodge in South Lake Union is launching Salo Salo, a Filipino pop-up restaurant contained in the lodge. The menu contains sticky adobo wings, road skewers made with pork or hen and lined in a lemongrass glaze, bone-in rib-eye with a soy and ginger glaze, grilled Baja prawn sinigang, stuffed hen tinola, and a lot extra. There isn’t a finish date on the pop-up at the moment.
Waffles? Proper this manner
Brunch people, this one is for you: A waffle-specializing spot known as A Lamb’s Quandary is “opening quickly” within the place in Ballard the place the Fats Hen was. Along with conventional breakfast-y meals, it has a sandwich menu the place waffles maintain collectively all of the sandwiches. There’s the Brisket (Szechuan-spiced braised brisket, perilla leaf, house-made kimchi, and gochujang aioli between two waffles), the Italian beef (slow-cooked pepperoncini and Italian herbed pulled beef with horseradish aioli), and the fried hen (fried hen, slaw, and maple lemon aioli, served with a facet of house-made kimchi).