NEW OPENINGS & RETURNS
Chifa
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This inexpensive Chinese language restaurant tender opened on the Ave earlier this month, serving dishes like orange rooster, chili pork, mapo tofu, and tomato egg stir-fry.
College District
High quality Baking Co.
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Baker Chely Smithgall will host the grand opening of this bakery sporting cute pink inside accents in West Seattle’s Morgan Junction tomorrow, October 26 at 4 pm. Smithgall slings baked items like truffles, cake pops, cupcakes, empanadas, cookies, and extra.
West Seattle
Karoo Cafe
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In accordance with a press launch, South Africa native Olivia Vermaak just lately opened this “coffee-to-cocktails” cafe in Pike Place’s historic Butterworth constructing. The spot options stay music and recreation nights and can introduce group occasions like yoga and sound baths in late November.
Downtown
Slurp Station Aburasoba UW
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This new joint specializing in aburasoba (brothless ramen) debuted within the U-District on the finish of September. Along with three completely different ramen variations (salt-based, shoyu-based, and vegan shoyu-based) and varied toppings, the enterprise additionally serves a small collection of tender drinks and milk tea.
College District
FUTURE OPENINGS
Cocoa Legato
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Musician and chocolatier Aaron Lindstrom, who previously labored because the supervisor of Theo Chocolate
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, will mix his passions with this small-batch chocolate manufacturing store, cafe, and stay music venue, coming to Greenwood early subsequent yr. Patrons will be capable to take a peek on the chocolate-making course of and take courses.
Greenwood
CLOSURES
Little Prague European Bakery & Deli
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My Ballard experiences that the Ballard location of this bakery has closed on account of an “worker drawback.” The unique West Seattle location stays open.
Ballard
Two Doorways Down
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The queer-owned, woman-owned burger favourite plans to shut on Halloween. Homeowners Erin Nestor and Rebecca Denk wrote on Instagram, “Our story is certainly not unhappy. Now we have had a outstanding ten-year run on East Madison Avenue, and the time has merely come to maneuver on. We’ve been fortunate. Not each spot in Seattle has the advantage of being surrounded by such nice neighbors – neighbors who stood six toes aside on the sidewalk ready on burgers through the Covid shutdown, neighbors who scrambled throughout plywood planks to get to our door when the sidewalks have been eliminated through the Fast Bus line building challenge —neighbors who care.” These wishing to pay their respects can swing by for a farewell social gathering from 5-10 pm on Saturday and seize $5 pints of Buoy beer (a nod to Buoy, the homeowners’ golden retriever named for the brewery).
Capitol Hill
POP-UPS AND EVENTS
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In 2018, former Stranger employees author Lester Black wrote of the English-style cask ale vacation spot Machine Home Brewery, “[Their] beers are beloved within the metropolis for his or her nuance and stability, and it helps that almost all of their greatest beers are beneath 4 p.c alcohol, an fulfilling proposition for trade regulars who typically tire of extreme alcohol. When Machine Home is at its greatest, and it normally is, their beers are succinct little packages that ship beguiling taste with out hitting you over the top. They’re charming beers, like a witty comment that lingers in your head for hours.” Now, the small-batch brewery invitations you to embrace the transition into fall with a collection of 13 cask ales good for the cooler climate, together with a Pale Oat Delicate made in collaboration with Weird Brewing, a Scottish 60 Shilling made in collaboration with Beveridge Place Pub, and The Roots of the Mountain Rye Barleywine made in collaboration with Holy Mountain, plus a number of seasonal beers and ciders. The Wednesday Membership will set the temper with stay jazz on Saturday.
Machine Home Brewery, Hillman Metropolis
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The ladies’s sports activities pub Tough & Tumble is gearing up for Halloween—why not go as your favourite feminine athlete? Your hosts Queen Sativa and DJ Summersoft will lead an evening stuffed with costume contests, prizes, “witchy” drink specials, and loads of dancing.
Tough & Tumble Pub, Ballard, 9 pm
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Wouldst thou prefer to stay deliciously? Then cease by Boy, Howdy!’s Halloween-themed pop-up (doubtless their final pop-up of the yr) on the cozy Ghost Notice Espresso for a sequence of blood-curdling bakes, together with “Autumn Leaves” (a toasted oat cake with herb-roasted apples and whipped crème fraîche), “Cauldron Smoke” (a chocolate olive oil cake with torched pumpkin marshmallows, spiced pepita crumbles, and black cocoa buttercream), “Harvest Moon” (brown butter spice cake with carrot marmalade, cream cheese mousse, and maple buttercream), and cookies (triple ginger molasses and bourbon vanilla pecan shortbread).
Ghost Notice Espresso, Capitol Hill, 12-4 pm
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Ina Garten is correct—store-bought actually is nice. Cookbook writer and meals blogger Lauren McDuffie explores each handy pre-made substances and cooking from scratch in her latest launch Home made-ish, which presents “easy, unfussy meals that you simply actually can throw collectively in minutes,” like rooster pot pie made with puffy pastry and citrus crunch doughnuts made with flaky biscuit dough. And actually, could not all of us use less difficult, comforting weeknight meals to forestall us from inserting yet one more overpriced DoorDash order? McDuffie will chat concerning the artwork of streamlined cooking with native author Molly Gilbert, writer of Sheet Pan Suppers, Sheet Pan Sweets, and One Pan & Finished.
Guide Larder, Fremont, 6:30-8 pm
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James Beard Award-winning bartender and writer Jim Meehan is right here that will help you inventory your larder with all of the substances it is advisable to shake and fire up cocktails like a professional, together with sugars, spices, dairy, grains and nuts, fruits, greens, flowers and herbs, espresso, tea, soda and mineral water, and ferments. His new e-book The Bartender’s Pantry accommodates recipes for parts like horchata, matcha, Turkish espresso, sorrel, kvass, and ice cream, in addition to irresistible libations just like the Gin Basil Smash, Earl Gray MarTEAni, and Penicillin. Be a part of him for a dialog with native author and bartender Andrew Bohrer, adopted by a Q&A and e-book signing.
Guide Larder, Fremont, 6:30-8 pm
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Get away your greatest goth finery: The swanky cocktail lounge Rob Roy is internet hosting Black Lagoon, a ghostly Halloween-themed expertise proclaimed “Canada’s Finest Pop-Up Bar” by Canada’s 100 Finest in 2022. The expertise, dreamed up by bartenders Erin Hayes and Kelsey Ramage in New Orleans in 2019, options dungeon-esque decor and deliciously morbid libations just like the “Blood Lust” (Giffard Sirop, miso falernum, rooibos tea, lemon juice, and ginger beer) and “Nosferatu’s Rise” (Coconut Oil Lot 40, Lustau Amontillado Sherry, cinnamon syrup, Bitter Queens Caribbean Bitters, and saline).
Rob Roy, Belltown
SPECIALS
Dough Pleasure
The vegan doughnut store is serving “frightfully fluffy” Halloween-themed doughnuts by way of October 31. The lineup consists of “cursed caramel apple,” “depraved chocolate sprinkle,” “spooky vanilla sprinkle,” “Lemonhead screamer” (bitter lemon topped with lemon powdered sugar), “haunted coffin” (chocolate) and “ghoulish ghost” (vanilla).
Ballard, Capitol Hill, West Seattle
Little Tin
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This week, the Ballard cocktail bar launched their new “Lady Dinner,” a.okay.a. the proper “meal”: their ice-cold home martini (that includes triple-distilled Polish potato vodka infused with Kauai sea salt and European mineral water), garnished with Wisconsin sharp blue cheese-stuffed olives and served with kettle-cooked potato chips and French onion dip (topped with chives and white truffle oil).
Ballard
The Milk Drunk
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The Beacon Hill restaurant has added a couple of attractive new menu gadgets recently, together with boozy “glaciers” (a slushie blended with tender serve) and the “Rubble Hassle” (a Fruity Pebbles milk punch Negroni). You may also costume up your tender serve with goth-chic black sesame onerous shell and Halloween-themed sprinkles by way of the top of the month.
Beacon Hill
