Food

Avila Visited

Last night started inauspiciously: the Wallyhood's "date night" was canceled at the last minute due to an unexpectedly crabby Baby Z. Disappointment was palpable. Still, we decided to make the best of it and loaded baby Z into his stroller (the BOB, not the dangerous one) and headed out for a lulling walk through Wallingford. We found ourselves on 45th near Wallingford Center, where we remembered that Avila (1711 N. 45th Street), the new restaurant Alex Pitt and Jared Carpenter have…

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Bella Cosa reborn: Avila!

The window cleaners at Bella Cosa (1711 N. 45th Street) must be getting sick and tired of wiping off the nose prints from the crowd of eager eaters trying to see through the butcher paper in the window, waiting for their re-opening. Well, take a break window cleaners and save your appetite eager eaters, we just heard from Alex Pitts that they're ready to re-open under their new name, Avila: Well, it wouldnt be much of a restaurant opening without delays,…

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National Cupcake Day

Though we're not quite sure by whose declaration, today is National Cupcake Day, and there is no better place to celebrate this auspicious occasion than the city's finest cupcake emporium, Trophy Cupcakes (in Wallingford Center, 1815 N 45th St). We hear from Jennifer Shea, Trophy's Chief Cupcakologist : Sunday, October 18th is National Chocolate Cupcake Day, and although we pay tribute to chocolate pretty much every day of the year here at Trophy, we thought we'd debut a flavor we've wanted…

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Chocolate Stout Cupcakes

There may be no more farmers market in Wallingford this year, but if you find yourself near Wallingford Center today, you may want to pop into Trophy Cupcakes to try their new Chocolate Stout Cupcakes made with Hale’s Cream Stout: "Chocolate Stout cupcake is topped with Caramel Stout Buttercream and a stout caramel drizzle." Featured every Wednesday and Saturday in October at their three locations, including Wallingford. We're recovering from knee surgery today. Please bring one by.

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RoRo

A couple weeks back, we ran a short story about an interesting piece of public art. In the comments section, someone mentioned that they passed it on their way to RoRo, someone else asked how the food was, and a couple of folks responded that it was excellent. "RoRo?" we thought to ourselves. "What's Roro?" Somehow, we managed to let two and a half years pass since their opening and never have tried RoRo BBQ (3620 Stone Way N). This was…

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Rancho Bravo: The Plot Thickens

When we left off (previous posts: Winchell's Last Donut, Rancho Bravo Closed?!), we'd discovered that following the shuttering of Winchell's, Rancho Bravo, the taco truck of city-wide fame that had made a home in the donut shop's parking lot had closed as well, hanging a "pending new lease" sign out front. Cub reporter that we are, we dropped a line to Freddy Rivas, the proprietor of said taco truck, hoping for some hopeful news. Here's what we learned: Hope you and…

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Rancho Bravo Closed?!

It's a calamity, people, a calamity! The impact waves of Winchell's closing have apparently rippled across the parking lot to the humble taco truck in the rear corner, Rancho Bravo. In response to our note that the Seattle Weekly was hosting a give-away at the Rancho Bravo taco truck, DOUG. commented: I don’t think this event happened today. In fact Rancho Bravo is CLOSED! Hopefully it’s only temporary. Their sign says they’re working on a new lease. We'll be making some…

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