Hungry for information? Welcome to our Friday Feed, the place we run by way of all of the native meals and restaurant information this week—and possibly assist you determine the place to eat this weekend.
Unhappy Meals: Simply over a month in the past, we added the Chinatown–Worldwide District’s Blissful Meals to our checklist of greatest Chinese language eating places. The restaurant’s fish fillet with scallion oil made our greatest bites of 2024. However an Instagram publish this week introduced that Tuesday was the restaurant’s last day in operation. Chef Ye AiFang’s superlatively great renditions of the seafood-based delicacies of Zhejiang and her sort hospitality shall be sorely missed.
Be part of us in mourning that we’ll by no means style the Blissful Meals fish in scallion oil once more.
Pleasant Meals: Sometime, we’ll run out of pandemic-era pizza popups placing down roots and begin getting new slice outlets, however at the moment isn’t that day. My Buddy Derek’s, which focuses on Detroit-style pies, has introduced that it plans to open its location within the former MKT area in Tangletown on January 29. Together with pizzas, the menu provides a Fishy Caesar, with two sorts of fish: anchovies and Goldfish crackers.
Tropical Feasts: On Wednesday, downtown Bellevue bought a little bit extra tropical: Pasifika Grill and Bar and accompanying lunch spot Pasifika Specific opened inside Lodge 116, from the workforce behind Renton’s Más Pika. Each eating places draw on the homeowners’ Chamorro (Indigenous folks of Guam and the Mariana Islands) background to tell their wide-ranging Pacific Island fusion model: The empanadas come orange with Achiote as on Guam, the saimin evokes Hawai’i, and there are Samoan-style candy breads.
Late-Evening Eats: The darkish of night time simply bought a little bit brighter and tastier as Chamorikén Barbacoa settled into a set location inside a Capitol Hill bar this week. The Puerto Rican popup (with Chamorro affect, therefore the title) now sells its empanadas, sandwiches, and barbecue plates from The Wash each day till the bar closes.
Morning Drinks: Yeobo Cafe and Bar, the gluten-free Korean American consolation meals spot within the former Two Doorways Down area, started slowly rolling out its menu in soft-opening mode. Beginning at the moment, it plans to start providing breakfast sandwiches, with brunch to comply with in February.
Oh, BTW, right here’s what you missed final week.
