Simply in time for the four-day weekend — at the least, we right here at Eater Seattle are bailing for the following two days — Temple Pastries is opening up its long-anticipated sandwiches-and-ice-cream window.
Proprietor Christina Wooden has been eyeing an growth of her Central District enterprise at the least since final yr, when Temple moved into the house subsequent door that was Oaky’s Tex Mex. Final month Wooden tried a gentle open of the sandwich window nevertheless it didn’t go properly. In her e-newsletter, she wrote, “After a uneven gentle open with some lackluster sandwiches and lengthy wait occasions, I made a decision to rent a special chef and begin over. Sure, it’s taking a little bit extra time and sure, it’s requiring extra persistence, nevertheless it’s all for the sake of high quality, and I do know you’ll be stoked on what’s to come back.”
This Friday, July 5, is the grand opening of the window, which can be open seven days per week, serving breakfast from 7:30 to 11 a.m, lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., and ice cream from 1 to 9 p.m. It’ll be a lean menu with a bodega-style breakfast sandwich within the morning and Italian subs and chopped cheeses within the afternoon. The large attraction right here is that every one the bread can be baked on the bakery — egg and cheese on Wooden’s milk bread? The center leaps in anticipation! The gentle serve flavors to start out can be strawberry sumac and vanilla bean, following the native pattern of artistic gentle serve flavors. However the place else are you going to search out mini croissants?
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La Dive launches partnership with Mamnoon
When Kate Opatz opened the second location of her hip pure wine bar La Dive in Queen Anne, one of many targets was to have a extra formidable meals menu than the unique Capitol Hill location, the place you can get snacks and sandwiches however not a lot else. Alas, that isn’t actually occurring. “We simply can’t maintain a meals program,” Opatz tells Eater Seattle. “We’ve tried and tried in so some ways nevertheless it doesn’t pencil out for us.”
Opatz is switching issues up by partnering with Center Japanese restaurant Mamnoon to serve issues like hummus, pita, and shawarma bowls. The Queen Anne La Dive has already adopted the Mamnoon menu and the Capitol Hill location will transition within the subsequent week, Opatz says.
New pizzeria strikes onto the Hill
Capitale Pizzeria, a restaurant from the homeowners of Belltown’s La Fontana Siciliana, is ready to open later this yr at 426 Broadway, the place Boca Pizzeria and Bakery as soon as was, experiences Capitol Hill Seattle Weblog. Boca closed earlier this yr after the loss of life of the founder (and subsequent authorized issues), however now there may be one other pizzeria moving into that void within the neighborhood.
Crave NW is coming quickly
Japanese Washington readers — and individuals who usually head east of the Cascades — mark your calendars. Crave NW, a meals competition headed up by onetime James Beard semifinalist Adam Hegsted, is occurring from July 11 to 13. It’ll be highlighting “cooks and tastemakers” from the oft-ignored “Inland Northwest.” For extra data, go right here.
