This Week’s Meals Information Is a Feast of Openings and Closings

Hungry for information? Welcome to our Friday Feed, the place we run via all of the native meals and restaurant information this week—and possibly assist you determine the place to eat this weekend.

It’s been virtually a month because the final version of this weekly restaurant information column, primarily as a result of we spent the previous few weeks of 2024 reviewing the large restaurant information from all the yr and the very best issues we ate final yr.

Which suggests an entire heck of lots has occurred: beloved multigeneration eating places closing, traditional bars evolving, and the announcement of some thrilling new spots coming within the subsequent few months.

The Good Information: These Eating places Are Now Open

• Puff Place: After a quick trial interval over the vacations, much-anticipated wholesale bakery Pufftown Bakehouse opened in Pike Place Market this week, with winter specials like spiced sizzling cocoa croissants.
• Canadian Invasion: Sure politicians have it backward, as Canadian delicacies continues to invade Bellevue, with Richmond restaurant Shanghai Dumpling King opening in Bridle Trails.

  

• Hey Ya: Talking of hotly anticipated baked items that made their title promoting out of Cortina Cafe, Rubinstein’s Bagels’ departed founder Andrew Rubinstein declared Hey Bagel formally open in College Village this week.
• New Thai: Ballard’s received (one other) new Thai restaurant, Nua Thai that opened in late December. The area, previously Cycle Canines and No Bones Seaside Membership, has gone via plenty of tenants, and it faces stiff competitors in a neighborhood flush with Thai eating places, however, rattling if we don’t love the optimism that exhibits.
• 👀🍦: Should you’ve at all times thought your ice cream can be higher with googly eyes, Manny Bennies, the brand new window at Seattle Bouldering Venture in Fremont, has your again. Towering cones and colourful cups function candy cream or vegan vanilla (coconut) base with the selection of contemporary fruit blended in, plus optionally available toppings corresponding to graham crackers and sizzling honey.
• Lunch Traces: As we talked about just a few weeks in the past, acclaimed dinner spot Paju will now host Paju Noodle Bar throughout lunch hours in its new, bigger South Lake Union location.
• Clever Opening: Kaiseki is the Japanese multicourse, seasonal, connoisseur meal designed as an expression of artwork, and the centerpiece of Migaku Sushi. The restaurant, which opened within the unique Watson’s Counter location in Ballard final month, is from the house owners of Belltown’s Karaage Setsuna, and options tasting menus from $130 to $300.

Extra Good Information: Future Openings

• A Win for Phinneywood: I’m completely biased, however Phinney Ridge/Greenwood is the very best bakery neighborhood within the metropolis, and it’s about to get higher. Becoming a member of Ben’s Bread, Petite Pierre, and Coyle’s Bakeshop is a storefront for Candy! Bakery, opening Wednesday. Alina Muratova began Candy as a wholesale and popup store in 2020 (beforehand Candy Nothings and Extra), along with her spectacular pastries catching consideration. Now with a chilly case, she plans to shift the main target to her desserts, together with cheesecakes and tarts.
• Again Once more, Bacetto’s Again: Mike Easton’s tumultuous experience via restauranting continues because the Il Corvo chef and founder re-opens his short-lived, much-loved Waitsburg pasta spot, Bar Bacetto on February 5. I’ve no inside information on what’s happening with Easton’s curler coaster of restaurant openings and closings, however I can say my meal on the unique incarnation was among the many greatest I’ve had in years.

  

• Loopy for Crustaceans: Xi’an Noodles founder Lily Wu opened the primary location of seafood spot Glad Crab in Auburn late final yr. This week, she introduced that she is going to open a second location this summer season, within the former Anthony’s Homeport on Shilshole.  
• Candy Summer season: Additionally planning for a summer season opening is one other location of Salt & Straw. The previous Homegrown on higher Queen Anne would be the Portland-grown chain’s third Seattle location.

Hopefully Good Information? Momentary Closures and Transitions

• Made it This Far: Service provider’s Cafe and Saloon claims to be town’s oldest restaurant, and also you don’t make it greater than a century round right here with out combating again. So, regardless of rumors of its finish, Service provider’s Cafe is closing solely quickly, reported the Seattle Occasions. It’s going to reopen in March, rising from its dying just like the ghosts that supposedly hang-out the place.

  

• Not Toast: Cafe Suliman, dwelling to one of many metropolis’s most opulent slices of toast, introduced that it’s taking the month of January off for some renovations, turning the wine bar area right into a extra practical restaurant.
• Musical Dumplings: Within the fall of 2023, Lin Handmade Dumpling, sibling to Greenwood’s Little Tings, opened on the Northeast aspect of Inexperienced Lake. By the summer season, it was the Seattle outpost of Bel-Purple Sichuan restaurant Dan Gui. Then, within the final month or so, it morphed right into a location of Mount & Bao, which additionally has outposts in Lake Metropolis and Lynnwood. There’s a path of related possession between all of the eating places, which all serve glorious meals, and I’m beginning to marvel if they’re merely utilizing the area over the storefront as signal storage for the assorted ideas.
• Musical Ideas: Ginger & Scallion, the Phinney Ridge rooster rice restaurant from the staff behind Secret Congee quietly morphed into Khao Soi Bar final week. Because the title implies, it specializes within the curry-based noodle soups of Northern Thailand, together with a spicy lamb leg model and one with fried lobster.

Now for the Dangerous Information: Closings

• Crushed: I can’t even make a joke. The information that Jackson’s Catfish Nook is closing devastated me, and never simply because it fried a imply fish. Opened in 2021 by the grandson of the founders of the unique Catfish Nook, it represented somewhat little bit of the outdated Central District and a resurgence of Black restaurant possession on the often-turbulent nook of 23^rd and Jackson.
• Jilted: Capitol Hill bar the Jilted Siren stated goodbye to its present location, however, per Capitol Hill Seattle, left the door open for a possible reopening elsewhere sooner or later.
• Ditto: The identical outlet reported an identical message from self-serve wine bar Rapport, which left a observe on its door saying it was closed indefinitely.
• Not in Query: Not like the above three locations, Plum Bistro proprietor Makini Howell left little question that her choice was last in closing the famend vegan restaurant (and sibling Plum Chopped). She’s going to flip her consideration to launching her tofu firm, Makini’s.
• Not Round Right here: Ballard received rather less candy final month, with the closure of D’Ambrosio Gelato’s final Seattle location. The unique house owners, who opened it in 2010, offered the store in 2016. A enterprise capital agency received concerned in 2020, and now D’Ambrosio Gelato outlets (“since 1957”) exist throughout Asia. However not in Seattle.
• Not Fairly But: You might have 5 extra days to get a last drink at Ballard’s Stepping Stone, studies My Ballard. The bar, which has been there for 17 years, received “discover to vacate” abruptly over the vacations, and hasn’t made plans for subsequent steps but.

Oh, BTW, right here’s what you missed final week month yr.