Hungry for information? Welcome to our Friday Feed, the place we run by all of the native meals and restaurant information this week—and possibly assist you determine the place to eat this weekend.
Bear Crawl
Aurora’s gluten-free teriyaki store, Hangry Panda, reached the top of its lease and closed up store just lately. Its web site notes that it’ll reopen in Belltown, however in a kitchen shared by a non-gluten-free restaurant—which sounds lots prefer it may be shifting in with Kedai Makan, which is owned by the identical individuals. Within the meantime, the web site additionally directs gluten-free teriyaki seekers to Grillbird’s Phinney location. [Screeching noise]. Grillbird’s what? Evidently the West Seattle teriyaki store has designs on (er, a license for) the previous vintage store area subsequent door to Oliver’s Twist. Nevertheless, from the appears to be like of the development work, they don’t seem to be grilling any birds there fairly but.
Many Glad Returns
Identify Sport: Ephesus, a Turkish restaurant in West Seattle, constructed a loyal viewers for its Adana kebabs and eggplant salad, and people are again now, as Efesis. New house owners took over round 2020 and transformed the menu to Greek meals, then closed the restaurant in 2023. Now, stories West Seattle Weblog, the unique proprietor has taken again over and reopened this week in the identical location, bringing again the Turkish menu, however with a barely completely different title, as the opposite house owners opened a further Pioneer Sq. location that carries on the Ephesus title.
Greenwood Goes On: The previous Greenwood location of Mr. Gyros was destroyed within the 2016 gasoline explosion. The corporate has since operated its Ballard, Wallingford, and Lynnwood places, however just lately introduced its return to Greenwood as of March 16. PhinneyWood has the news on the grand opening, simply two blocks northeast of the outdated location.
Stumbletown takes over the Joli area, with sandwiches for lunch, joined by small plates at dinner.
A Stumbletown Switcheroo: Stumbletown, the sandwich store, has been closed at its location in Stumbletown, the neighborhood, for a lot of weeks now. Janet Eicher, the proprietor (of each Stumbletown, the sandwich store, and plenty of different companies in Stumbletown, the neighborhood) has lastly cleared issues up: Joli, the restaurant she additionally owned, down the road in Stumbletown (the neighborhood), is now transformed to Stumbletown (the restaurant). The lunch menu presents the acquainted Stumbletown sandwiches, the dinner menu expands on that with Italian-leaning small plates.
Lastly Feeding
A Triumph for North Seattle: Triumph Valley, which serves among the area’s greatest dim sum from its Renton location, introduced that it’s softly open at its new Shoreline location this week. The restaurant took over the previous Tremendous China Buffet constructing in the identical advanced as City & Nation Market (née Central Market) final summer season, making it a protracted look ahead to followers.
Candy and Smooth: Kelly Miao moved from working as a pastry chef in New York’s main restaurant gamers to the Seattle pop-up world, and now she and her Asian American desserts are setting down roots in Capitol Hill. Kemi Dessert Bar delicate opened final week and can accomplish that once more this weekend, with colourful treats like Black Sesame Rice Crispy, Thai Tea Basque Cheesecake, and Yuzu Crinkle Cookie.
Greater in Bellevue: East Coast Chinese language restaurant group Jiang Nan opened its largest restaurant but in Bellevue this week. Initially introduced for January of final yr, the 8,000-square-foot location within the Bravern has been a very long time coming for the 10-location chain out of Flushing, New York. However The Seattle Occasions stories that it’ll begin serving the signature Peking duck as we speak.
Future Meals
Sushi, Quickly: Akebono Japanese Delicacies has put up “Opening Quickly” indicators on the previous Black Pearl/Chopsticks area on 35th Ave NE in Wedgwood.
Thai, to Come: 8 at Ping Yang plans to serve Thai-style charcoal grilled meals when it opens within the former OOLA Distillery/Marjorie area on E Union, although it has not introduced a timeline.
The colourful new packaging for Maeve, the brand new title for Seattle Chocolate.
Chocolate Adjustments
Recoated: Thirty-year-old Seattle Chocolate has rebranded to Maeve Chocolate, giving it a bit wider enchantment and a recent, trendy new look. The title was impressed by a fiery first-century Irish warrior queen, per the web site, and never, it appears, by this small maker of beautiful bespoke hand-painted sweets in Alabama.
Melted Away: Truffles & Extra, the small Ballard bakery, will shut its storefront later this month after 4 years, so proprietor Kyma Czark can spend time caring for a member of the family, stories My Ballard. She does plan to proceed to take customized orders.
Oh, BTW, right here’s what you missed final week.
