NEW OPENINGS & RETURNS
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Chef Brian Clevenger’s Normal Harvest restaurant group opened this new live-fire cooking restaurant, named for the Outdated Norse phrase for “hearth,” within the former Samara
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area on December 10. A peek on the menu reveals dishes like beef tartare, grilled cabbage, black cod, and aged ribeye with chimichurri. A four-course chef’s tasting menu can also be accessible for $89 per particular person (minimal two friends).
Ballard
Nua Thai Restaurant and Bar
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This new Thai spot has taken over the previous Cycle Canine
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area, serving specialties resembling Thai-style sukiyaki, grilled pork meatballs, grilled pork jowl, yum mama (a well-liked salad made with Mama model prompt ramen noodles), and nam khao tod (crispy rice salad).
Ballard
T&T Grocery store
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Uwajimaya has some new competitors: Canada’s Asian grocery store chain T&T opened its first U.S. location within the Market at Factoria buying heart in Bellevue on December 5, and at 76,000 sq. ft, it is now the most important Asian grocer in Washington.
Bellevue
CLOSURES
Billy Seaside Sushi & Bar
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This Ballard sushi staple not too long ago closed its doorways, My Ballard experiences. A brand new restaurant known as aa Sushi is about to take over the placement.
Ballard
Locust Cider
The native cider chain introduced abruptly on social media on December 10 that seven of its areas have been closing, efficient instantly. The publish defined, “We began in 2015 with a dream of sharing our love for cider in Washington. In 2019, we expanded that dream with a imaginative and prescient to construct a community of taprooms, creating private connections with cider lovers in additional communities. Then COVID hit. Like so many others, we have been pushed to the brink. We stored going—typically stubbornly—when what we actually wanted was to pause and rebuild with a clearer, extra sustainable path.” The enterprise’s Alki, First Hill, Redmond, Olympia, Vancouver, Walla Walla, and Fort Price outposts at the moment are formally closed.
Numerous areas
OTHER FOOD NEWS
Paju opens for lunch
In response to a press launch, South Lake Union’s acclaimed trendy Korean vacation spot Paju
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has begun serving lunch. The menu options bibimbap, seolleongtang (ox bone soup), spicy seafood ramen, and chef-owner Invoice Jeong’s signature hen wings, with a selection of plain, soy garlic, or candy chili.
POP-UPS AND EVENTS
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Darkish winter days name for equally darkish brews. At this four-day fan-favorite occasion, Flying Lion will supply over 40 such beers, together with “cellared favorites, particular releases, multi-year verticals, and loads of restricted availability brews.” Highlights this 12 months embrace a particular Dunkelweizen collab with Seapine Brewing with regionally commissioned can paintings and even a darkish cider created solely for the occasion by Greenwood Cider. Plus, in case you want one more reason to tug your self away from bed, a restricted provide of free doughnuts can be accessible every morning starting at 10 am. You’ll want to convey a growler to fill.
Flying Lion Brewing, Rainier Valley, 10 am-12 am
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Cozy up with mulled wine and complimentary vegan doughnut holes from Dough Pleasure at this festive gathering at Pine Lake Cellars. Indoor heaters and an outside hearth pit will assure a hygge vacation second wherever you determine to chill, and well-behaved leashed pets are welcome to affix the enjoyable.
Pine Lake Cellars, West Seattle, 5-9 pm
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Profit from the shortest day of the 12 months by bundling up and absorbing vitamin D in group on this laidback social bike trip, open to cyclists of all ranges. Carry a practical bicycle and a helmet and meet at Cycle & Espresso for warm drinks and a hearty breakfast, then pedal your manner across the metropolis for a 16.5 mile loop with occasional breaks to relaxation and refuel, returning again at Cycle & Espresso.
Cycle & Espresso, 9:30 am-12 pm
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Everybody’s favourite Capitol Hill dive bar is again with their vacation mild present! Bait Store all the time goes entire hog with vacation decorations, and their epic musical mild present kicks off each hour on the hour(ish). The employees members manually flip the sunshine switches so you’ll want to tip them further for his or her arduous work. We love the little particulars just like the decked out bogs, dick-covered wrapping paper, and tiny Santa hats on each animal. SHANNON LUBETICH
Bait Store, Capitol Hill, 4 pm-2 am
SPECIALS
The Flour Field
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Baker Pamela Vuong’s James Beard-nominated doughnut store is providing 4 new flavors for the vacations: eggnog, gingerbread cream, scorching chocolate, and peppermint cookies and cream. They’re additionally serving orange vanilla lattes, eggnog lattes, and toffee gingerbread lattes.
Rainier Valley
Paper Cake Store
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Rachel Yang and Gabby Park’s cake store’s beautiful bûche de Noël (made with black sesame sponge cake, cream cheese buttercream filling, tangy cranberry jam, matcha buttercream frosting, and candied cranberries) is now accessible for pre-order by way of December 24.
Wallingford
Temple Pastries
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A few years in the past, Temple baked up Flemish beef pies on Christmas Eve. They’re now persevering with the custom by slinging hearty Flemish beef sandwiches, that includes juicy ale-sauced beef, onions, and cheese on a crusty baguette, out of their sandwich and ice cream window. Really a meal worthy of a medieval peasant (complimentary).
Central District
