Hungry for information? Welcome to our Friday Feed, the place we run by means of all of the native meals and restaurant information this week—and perhaps assist you determine the place to eat this weekend.
Lil’ Dumpers and Kenji-yaki
The excellent news this week is that the Mariners got here out with their always-excellent annual adverts. One entails Ichiro and GOAT yoga; one other, some questionable decision-making. The dangerous information is that the group additionally introduced the brand new meals choices at T-Cellular Park and a few questionable decision-making was concerned there, too, notably in calling the brand new dumplings “Lil’ Dumpers.” With Din Tai Fung not on the ballpark, Stroll-Off Market, in sections 105 and 141, will carry its personal soup dumplings. That are named after Cal Raleigh’s rear finish. Which is a alternative. That they made.
Lil’ Dumpers and the Flip Two Hen Teriyaki, each at Stroll Off Markets in T-Cellular Park this season.
In higher decisions, the markets additionally labored with native food-lebrity J. Kenji López-Alt to create the Flip Two Teriyaki Bowl, which options glazed rooster thighs over rice and pickled daikon and carrots. It’s good to see a basic native dish taking part in for the house group however, presumably, Kenji’s many followers must wait to see his Teriyaki Quest video overview earlier than they likelihood it themselves.
Transferring In
Swimming into Stumbletown: The previous Stumbletown, which now serves its sandwiches down the road at Jolie, has remodeled into Shark Chew Ceviches. Beforehand a seasonal cart and supply operation on Beacon Hill, it soft-opened final weekend within the new location. The massive out of doors seating space looks as if an optimum place to get pleasure from some sunshine, when it will get right here, and the halibut, salmon, and even vegan mushroom kinds of ceviche on supply.
A lateral transfer: Capitol Hill Seattle studies that First Hill’s Gyro Saj Mediterranean Grill will open a second location within the former Ian’s Pizza location on Broadway. The gyro fries, falafel salads, and shawarma wrapped in skinny saj bread appear to be a powerful choice for the Seattle Central School crowd simply throughout the road.
On the Transfer
Not going far: On the heels of its Bellevue transfer to bigger digs, dumpling chain Din Tai Fung can be upgrading its College Village location. Someday in 2026, it would decamp to the previous Bartell Medication location. The transfer will greater than double the scale of the restaurant and be designed to raised exhibit the well-known dumpling making operation.
Getting out of city: Pioneer Sq. chocolate maker Intrigue Chocolate is packing up its melts and molds and transferring to Minnesota. After 20 years in Seattle, together with 15 in Pioneer Sq. and a short-lived café on Capitol Hill, the corporate will transfer to Chisholm, Minnesota. The city of about 5,000 is 90 minutes south of the Canadian border, between Duluth and Bemidji. Unsurprisingly, Intrigue plans to change to an online-only retail mannequin.
Not transferring quick: The query I received requested probably the most this week is “When is the brand new Korean BBQ place opening in Ballard?” However, whereas I really like Renton’s Exit 5 as a lot as anybody, you’re in for a wait: Greatest case situation could be by the tip of this yr, however perhaps not till early 2026.
Transferring On
No one : The query I received the second most is “Who purchased Westman’s?” Westman’s founder Monica Dimas introduced this week that she bought the store, as a latest analysis of celiac illness means a gluten-free life-style, and working a bagel store didn’t work effectively with that. The brand new house owners come from the tech trade, reasonably than the meals world, however have but to introduce themselves or talk about their plans for the enterprise.
Testing: Cowen Park Grocery, on the northern fringe of the Ave, closed final weekend, to get replaced within the close to future by a music retailer. Vanishing Seattle posted co-owner Suni Davies’ letter, stating that this was a closure by alternative. She and her household personal the constructing and plan to redevelop the property into residences and retail area, however not fairly but.
Dipping out: The house owners of Greenwood stalwart Olive and the Grape introduced this week that they’ve bought the enterprise and are retiring. After 15 years working the Mediterranean restaurant, Paola Corsini and Chris Kossack will serve their last mezes on April 23. No phrase but on who the patrons are or what their plans are for the enterprise.
Taco no más: Maíz Taqueria, née Sazón, the Ballard location of the native Mexican restaurant group, will shut on the finish of this month, studies My Ballard. After six years, the house owners selected to not renew the lease and can as an alternative concentrate on their Pike Place Market and Belltown areas.
Milk Bar’s store-in-a-store-in-a-mall did not work out in Bellevue.
Candy goodbyes: New York-based, celeb-chef-owned Milk Bar gave up on its Bellevue location with out fairly hitting the two-year mark. Christina Tosi deserves a lot credit score for her artistic desserts, however her mass-market variations in supermarkets and franchises haven’t met the usual her authentic retailers set. And placing it inside a Nordstrom inside a mall did not do it any favors.
Oh, BTW, right here’s what you missed final week.
