OPENINGS
4 Diamonds
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This informal spot hosted its grand opening downtown this week, serving boba drinks and Vietnamese fare like pho and rice plates.
Downtown
Jiang Nan
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The New York-based Chinese language fusion chain Jiang Nan delicate opened an outpost contained in the Retailers on the Bravern purchasing middle in Bellevue this week, providing signature dishes like Peking duck, xiao lengthy bao, and grilled fish. In accordance with the official web site, they’ve a “strategic purpose of increasing to 40 shops throughout the East Coast, West Coast, and Florida over the following three years” and hope to “provide each diner the distinctive expertise of refined banquets and gatherings via our Chinese language fusion.”
Bellevue
Mr. Gyros
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9 years after it was destroyed in a tragic gasoline explosion in Greenwood, the beloved family-owned gyro joint Mr. Gyros is about to be again in enterprise, due to a crowdfunding marketing campaign. Brothers and co-owners Sammy and Joni Arsheed will host a grand opening from 3–5 pm on Sunday with free meals for all who attend to thank the neighborhood for his or her assist.
Greenwood
Parlour
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The homeowners of Parlour Wines opened this shiny, ethereal, fashionable cafe in Pioneer Sq. final month. The menu options pure wine, small bites, Stamp Act espresso, native craft beer, and pastries from Pufftown Bakehouse
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Pioneer Sq.
FUTURE OPENINGS
Nomadic Wine Dispensary
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Capitol Hill Seattle studies that co-owners Bonnie Donovan and Tim Sale are set to open this self-pour wine bar within the former Rapport
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area round April.
Capitol Hill
CLOSINGS
Cheesecake Manufacturing facility
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After over 20 years of enterprise, the downtown Cheesecake Manufacturing facility will shut its doorways on Could 4. I’ve to confess that I’ve a delicate spot for the delightfully cheesy chain and can miss its cheeseburger egg rolls and Louisiana hen pasta.
Downtown
Taku
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High Chef star Shota Nakajima broke the information this week that his Capitol Hill karaage hen joint Taku will shut completely, writing in an e mail publication, “Thanks, Seattle, for the love and assist during the last decade. Working my companies solo for 10 years has been a wild, lovely experience—one I wouldn’t commerce for something. The reminiscences, the experiences, the neighborhood you’ve given me—I can’t thanks sufficient.” To melt the blow, he is internet hosting a few farewell collaboration dinners over the following weekend, together with a sold-out 10-course meal
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with High Chef season 19 contestant Luke Kolpin from March 21–22 and one other occasion but to be introduced.
Capitol Hill
Tio Child’s
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The “high-quality bar meals” pop-up-turned-restaurant will shut after service on April 5. Proprietor Will Gordon wrote on Instagram, “What the long-term way forward for Tio Child’s is, I do not actually know. I doubt we have actually seen the final of it. That stated, my private focus over the upcoming months can be on journey, leisure, and attempting to construct a life-style that feels sustainable, offers me extra time with the folks I like, and extra consideration for Riggins the Spokesdog.”
Fremont
OTHER FOOD NEWS
McDonald’s could take over Ave restaurant
Charles Mudede reported yesterday that Cedars of Lebanon
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, often known as the “oldest restaurant on The Ave,” could also be changed by a McDonald’s, writing, “True, that is one thing quite new on this metropolis, the place the traditional working of issues is to offer small companies the boot for luxurious towers that supply hoity-toity eating. On this case, it is the opposite means round: as an alternative of going up, we’re happening to a joint that mainly would not actually serve meals, like Cedar’s of Lebanon, however one thing like what people are in The Matrix: batteries. If this dangerous enterprise goes via, if we lose Cedar’s of Lebanon, a key a part of what for a few years was often known as Little Lebanon (it included Flowers Bar and Restaurant
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and Samir’s Mediterranean Grill Lebanese Delicacies
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), for a Ronald McDonald, I am going ‘to throw up each my fingers.'”
POP-UPS AND EVENTS
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Phaze Mud, an Imperial hazy IPA with “acquainted citrus notes” and “candy hints of candied peach, mango, and tangerine,” is the most recent launch in Elysian’s House Mud IPA sequence. To mark the event, they’re serving up a limited-run menu designed to pair with Phaze Mud, together with a trippy laser present, immersive visuals, and a stay DJ.
Elysian Brewing Firm, Capitol Hill, 7–11 pm
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Run, do not stroll: The sought-after Texas-style barbecue joint Grasslands Barbecue (which received its begin because the Seattle pop-up Bootleg Barbecue and now operates a meals cart in Hood River, Oregon) is coming again to Seattle this weekend and can serve dishes like tasso pulled pork, hatch chile cheddar sausages, and picnic potatoes (a smoked cheese hash brown casserole, topped with blackened butter cornflakes). For those who’ve missed pitmaster Drew Marquis’s mouthwatering smoked meats or have not gotten an opportunity to attempt them but, we extremely suggest you get in line early, as it can most likely promote out quick.
Holy Mountain Brewing, Interbay, 12 pm on Friday and 11 am on Saturday and Sunday
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Immerse your self in per week of pure oenophilia with this behemoth occasion billing itself as “the nation’s largest single-region wine and meals occasion.” The grand tasting unites greater than 200 Washington wineries, 75 West Coast eating places, and quite a few acclaimed native and nationwide cooks, whereas different signature occasions embrace a swanky wine evening, a dinner sequence, Sunday brunch, a seafood social gathering, an off-the-cuff wine evening, instructional seminars, and extra. This 12 months’s lineup consists of coveted culinary luminaries like Unhealthy Chancla, Paju, That Brown Woman Cooks!, Taurus Ox, Spinasse, Matia, Kamonegi, and plenty of extra.
Varied places
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Kells’ forty second annual shamrock-festooned celebration kicks off on March 8 and continues with day by day revelry via St. Patrick’s Day (should you’ve received the stamina). As normal, Put up Alley and First Avenue can be closed to site visitors and lined by a big tent to assist expanded celebrations, together with rugby watch events and performances by native musicians just like the Belfast Bandits, Máirtín Ó Huigin, and U2 tribute band Vertigo Zoo. Do not forget the house-brewed beers and basic Irish dishes—corned beef, anybody? SHANNON LUBETICH
Kells Irish Restaurant & Pub, Pike Place Market
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West Seattle deserves its personal St. Patrick’s social gathering, so family-friendly taproom Ounces is internet hosting an all-day affair, kicking off with an Irish line dance class and inexperienced enjoyable run alongside the Alki Path at midday. Get pleasure from specials from smashburger joint Burbs Burgers, $6 draft Guinness, and green-dyed beer and cider. Preserve an eye fixed out for pots o’ gold! SL
Ounces, North Delridge, 12–7 pm
SPECIALS
Bonito Café y Mercadito
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Capitol Hill’s queer Latino-owned espresso store is greeting spring with its new horchata chai with pistachio chilly foam, which is able to develop into obtainable beginning tomorrow whereas provides final.
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Layers Inexperienced Lake
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The sandwich store will have fun St. Patrick’s Day with Fortunate Charms-studded sugar cookies all weekend lengthy. Stamp Act Espresso can even pop in to serve espresso drinks, together with Fortunate Charms cereal milk lattes, from 10 am-2 pm on Saturday.
Inexperienced Lake
Spice Waala
The Indian avenue meals spot is celebrating Holi at present with a festive vacation meal that features peas pulao, aloo gobi, “Dad’s hen curry,” and suji ka halwa (semolina pudding with raisins), obtainable for pickup from 5-8 pm.
Ballard, Capitol Hill, Columbia Metropolis