Food

Wallingford Greenhouse Project Needs Volunteers

Calling all Wallingford green thumbs! The Greenhouse Project is looking to recruit some volunteers to help grow fresh and organic produce for local food banks.  Volunteers will be dedicating their time towards growing thousands of vegetable starts in a lower Wallingford greenhouse, which then will be distributed by Lettuce Link to P-Patches around the city.  All vegetables will then be donated to food banks. If you're interested in volunteering for the local greenhouse project there is an orientation and workshop on Saturday,…

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56th Street Market opening mid-January

Folks in the Tangletown area will be pleased to know that the new 56th Street Market (2201 N 56th St.) is scheduled to open some time in mid-January.  Although a date hasn't yet been finalized, owners PJ and Sami told me that once the liquor license is approved and the shelving is up, they'll only need a week to stock the the new store. Speaking of shelves, Sami and PJ were working on shelving assembly today when I stopped by to…

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Holiday Dining At Tilth

If you're thinking about enjoying an evening out on Christmas Eve or New Years Eve, then you'll want to consider making your reservations at Tilth (1411 N. 45th Street), where Owner/Chef Maria Hines and Chef de Cuisine Jason Brzowzy have planned a sumptuous four-course holiday tasting menu.  The menu is the same for either evening and there are three options for each course offered: First Course Taylor Shellfish Oysters: champagne mignonette, mint, apple Celery Root Soup: celery heart, celery leaves, perigord…

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Satay . . . Slightly Delayed

It was a tough job but someone had to do it. Yesterday I got the call on my Wallyhood bat-phone that Satay (1711 N. 45th St.) had opened and someone had to go over there for lunch and get pictures.  Not one to balk at a challenge, I grabbed my trusty little Canon and headed down 45th Street . . . Peter, a co-owner, greeted me at the cash register.  The menu is simple:  four types of satay, three "dishes" (wok-fried…

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Satay Sashays In

Malaysian street food restaurant, Satay (1711 N. 45th St.) opened for business today.  After a year and a half of planning, owners Patrick McCredie and Peter Ringold have transformed the former Avila space and are finally serving up satay for the neighborhood.  Co-owner Patrick McCredie told us, "We're open for business as of today and we're super excited to be a part of Wallingford." After you sample some wines from our Wallyhood/City Cellars tasting tonight from 5-7 p.m., you might want…

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A Community that Cooks Together, Eats Together

Sustainable Wallingford's Rachel Duboff invites us all to the Wallingford Community Kitchen Holiday Celebration at the Good Shepherd Center, Friday, November 19th from 5:30-9pm. Rachel's announcement says: "We will be making a communal soup and baking/decorating cookies; we cook as a community and then enjoy the bounties of our labor by sitting down to share a meal. This event is a little different, we ask that you bring an ingredient for the soup pot, along with a dish to share with…

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Joule, Art of the Table among top Fearless Critic restaurants

The Fearless Critic Seattle Restaurant Guide lists Wallingford's Joule (1915 N. 45th St.) and Art of the Table (1054 N. 39th St.) as top eateries in its food category.  The Fearless Critic is a series of restaurant guide books edited by Robin Goldstein (The Wine Trials and contributor to the New York Times Freakonomics blog).  The Fearless Critic series has published restaurant guides for Houston, San Antonio, Washington, D.C., and Portland, Oregon, and makes its debut in Seattle this year, with…

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