NEW OPENINGS & RETURNS
aa Sushi
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This new sushi spot opened within the former Billy Seaside Sushi & Bar
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house in Ballard earlier this month. Along with sushi and sashimi, additionally they serve rice bowls, udon, ramen, and bento containers.
Ballard
Conspagna Ethiopian Restaurant
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Little Saigon is now house to this Ethiopian vacation spot, which celebrated its grand opening weekend from January 10-11. The menu options specialties like doro wat, tibs, and injera with selfmade butter, in addition to a conventional Ethiopian espresso ceremony.
Chinatown-Worldwide District
My Good friend Derek’s
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The wait is lastly (virtually!) over: This cult favourite Detroit-style pizza pop-up, which obtained its begin as proprietor Derek Reiff’s pandemic interest, will debut its extremely anticipated brick-and-mortar within the former mkt.
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house in Tangletown on Wednesday, January 29. A peek on the upcoming menu reveals a primary cheese pie and “Derek’s Fav” (pepperoni, Castelvetrano olives, and grana cheese), plus salads just like the “Fishy Caesar” (a kale Caesar dressed up with anchovies, parm, and goldfish crackers).
Wallingford
Seattle Harbor
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The long-lasting China Harbor reopened beneath new possession and a brand new identify in late December. They’re at present serving dim sum, seafood, and Cantonese and Sichuanese dishes, and all of it seems very promising to this point.
Westlake
Yeobo Cafe and Bar
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This cozy new Korean consolation meals vacation spot, named for a Korean time period of endearment, comfortable opened within the not too long ago closed Two Doorways Down
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location final week. They’ve began out promoting restricted objects from their chilly case (together with musubi) and can add breakfast sandwiches this weekend, adopted by a full bar with night hours to come back earlier than the top of March—look ahead to craveable snacks like scallion fritters and honey gochujang wings.
Capitol Hill
FUTURE OPENINGS
Sunright Tea Studio
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The boba chain Sunright Tea Studio is ready to open an outpost contained in the Pleasure Place senior housing and providers improvement on Capitol Hill someday this yr, Capitol Hill Seattle reviews.
Capitol Hill
CLOSURES
Joyful Meals
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In keeping with Seattle Met, this hidden Chinatown gem closed its doorways final Tuesday.
Chinatown-Worldwide District
Pie Bar Ballard
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After a decade of enterprise, this spot purveying baked items and booze in Ballard has shuttered, citing “metropolis of Seattle’s mismanaged road challenge” (a reference to Seattle Division of Transportation’s close by building work) as the rationale for the closure.
Ballard
The Stepping Stone
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This longtime Ballard pub closed its doorways on Tuesday as a consequence of receiving a discover to vacate from its property proprietor Eastlake Hill Properties LLC.
Ballard
OTHER FOOD NEWS
POP-UPS AND EVENTS
Remind
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The plant-based, natural doughnut specialist Mighty-O stays a stalwart native favourite of vegans and non-vegans alike. Assist them rejoice the primary decade of enterprise in Ballard with freebies, an unique birthday drink specials, and present card giveaways as much as over $500 from neighborhood companies.
Mighty-O Donuts, Ballard, 6 am–3 pm
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Make like a troll and head beneath the Fremont Bridge for the primary evening market of the yr. This month’s theme is “winter feast,” and a partnership with Cellular Meals Rodeo means you’ll be able to count on extra meals vans alongside the standard dozens of native distributors promoting handmade crafts and classic items. It has been notably chilly not too long ago, however you can heat up beneath patio heaters and revel in some sizzling frybread from Off The Rez. SHANNON LUBETICH
701 N Northlake Method, 12–6 pm
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I’ve lengthy stated that when you spot a mortar and pestle in your host’s kitchen, you’re about to be served an unimaginable meal, so I used to be instantly intrigued by the title of Mortar & Pestle, a vibrant and playful new primer on fashionable Indonesian delicacies co-written by seasoned creator Pat Tanumihardja and her mom, Juliana, a local Javan who opened one among Seattle’s first Indonesian eating places (Julia’s Indonesian Kitchen, which she offered in 2011). Get able to roll up your sleeves and grind up fragrant toasted spices, chiles, and herbs—this e-book guarantees a hands-on cooking expertise that can interact your whole senses and lead to uniquely flavorful dishes.
Guide Larder, 6:30–8 pm
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There’s nothing like a steaming bowl of one thing sizzling, brothy, and restorative to bolster your spirits and chase away the chilliness of winter. Fortunately, Fremont eating places have risen to the event with a “neighborhood winter soup stroll” referred to as Fremont Soupocalypse, permitting diners to get their soup repair and assist native companies throughout their slowest months of the yr in addition. Merely amble by the neighborhood and revel in dine-in and takeout specials from Fremont Mischief, Shawn O’Donnell’s, El Camino, SWeL, Triangle Spirits, Esters Enoteca, Paseo, Kaosamai, Crimson Star Taco Bar, Soul, Frelard Tamales, Pecado Bueno, The George & Dragon, Dreamland, Native Tide, and the Barrel Thief. You will acquire a stamp in your “soupassport” for every soup vacation spot—when you acquire eight or extra, you’ll be able to redeem them at Mischief earlier than February 12 for a free tasting, shot glasses, and a seize bag of native treats.
Varied places throughout Fremont
SPECIALS
Li’l Woody’s
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In celebration of Lunar New Yr
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, the native burger joint’s weekly particular is the Bánh Tét Rooster Sammie, created in collaboration with Lisa Bi of the Vietnamese consolation meals pop-up Ba + Mẹ and accessible by Monday. The sandwich options shallot soy fish sauce, a marinated fried rooster thigh, a slice of sticky rice “fried up crispy like an onion ring,” mung bean unfold, Ba + Mẹ chili oil aioli, and pickled mustard greens on a Franz kaiser bun.
Ballard, Capitol Hill, White Middle
Sip Home
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Beginning on Saturday, the Vietnamese cafe will serve Hanoi milk tea, a festive Lunar New Yr and Valentine’s Day particular impressed by Yunnan milk tea and that includes rose, jasmine, and jujubes (additionally referred to as purple dates).
College District
Temple Pastries
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Every weekend for the rest of winter, the Central District bakeshop is slinging savory pork stomach leek croissants: flaky sourdough croissant dough formed right into a flower and filled with sautéed leeks and braised pork stomach items, topped with chewy dashi mochi, and completed with a dollop of house-made chili crisp.
Central District