The Seattle Occasions stories {that a} coalition of greater than 200 restaurant homeowners across the state desires Washington well being departments to do a greater job shutting down meals vans and stands that function with out the correct permits, and typically with out regard for well being and security rules.
Previously, notes the Occasions, King County has hardly ever issued fines to such operators and as an alternative provided academic sources to permit distributors to get in compliance. However now, a county official tells the paper, some distributors have been working with no license on goal in an effort to skirt prices which might be required to legally function eating places and meals vans. These distributors, the official stated, “appear to even be centrally organized. We’re not coping with unbiased, one-off operators.”
SAM meals is getting a refresh
Market, the seafood-centric restaurant contained in the Seattle Artwork Museum, is closing down on the finish of the yr and being changed by Mexican Asian restaurant Bar Dojo. Each eating places are owned by Shubert Ho’s Feedme group, which is an influence participant up in Edmonds. Bar Dojo will open on the museum this spring; within the months between Market’s closure and the brand new restaurant’s opening, museum-goers will be capable to get fundamental grab-and-go stuff.
Homegrown shuts down its remaining sandwich retailers
Final yr, sustainability-conscious sandwich chain Homegrown closed most of its retailers, leaving just one in downtown Seattle and one on Mercer Island. Now these two retailers look like closed as effectively, stories Puget Sound Enterprise Journal, with a discover taped to the downtown location notifying the enterprise it owed greater than $472,000 in unpaid taxes and costs.
Christmas Dive Bar is again
Beloved boozy seasonal vacation pop-up Christmas Dive Bar is reopening on Friday, November 14. Situated at 1518 eleventh Avenue on Capitol Hill, this bar from husband and husband staff Joey Burgess and Murf Corridor (who personal Elliot Bay Guide Firm, Oddfellows, and Queer/Bar) will serve Christmas-themed snacks and drinks, and in addition host weekend drag brunches. “It’s like Rudolph obtained drunk, raided a thrift retailer, and threw the wildest vacation celebration Capitol Hill’s ever seen,” stated Burgess in a press launch.