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Viva El Pablo y Pablo

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Pablo y Pablo (hereafter referred to as "Pablo") (1605 N 34th St.), located in the NorthEdge building (Tableau HQ) and next to Acadia, is the newest restaurant addition to lower Wallingford. Pablo is owned by the Heavy Restaurant Group that runs other well-known restaurants such as Thackeray, Purple Café & Wine Bar, Barrio, and Lot No. 3, to name a few. From the Heavy Restaurant Group: "Pablo y Pablo is a Mexican restaurant & bar that pulls ingredients and techniques from around the…

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September Means Wurst Fesitval, Sept 15 and 16

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The Wurst Festival, Wallingford tradition in its 34th year, continues in 2017 on Friday, September 15th and Saturday, September 16th at St. Benedict Catholic School ( 4811 Wallingford Ave N ).   Here are the details provided from their press release: The Wurst Festival is a community event, hosted by St. Benedict, to raise money for our school by bringing together the school’s families along with the surrounding neighborhoods for a fun, entertaining fall festival. The vision of the festival is to create…

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City Council Position 8 Candidate Forum, September 14th

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Welcoming Wallingford, a local community group advocating for HALA, is hosting a candidate forum on September 14th at the Wallingford Presbyterian Church (1414 N 42nd St).  One of their members sent along the following announcement: Welcoming Wallingford [https://www.facebook.com/welcomingwallingford/] is hosting a Seattle City Council Position 8 candidate forum with Jon Grant and Teresa Mosqueda on September 14. Wallingford, and all of Seattle, is grappling with housing affordability and renters' rights, the opportunities and challenges of growth, and neighborhood livability. At this…

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Little Big Burger coming to Smith and Burns

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On the heels of Wallyburger joining the 45th Street lineup, Wallingford will soon be home to another burger joint, Portland-based Little Big Burger. Their menu is spare, offering little more than burgers, fries, rootbeer floats and beer, but the fries are truffle and the burgers are Portland: 1/4 lb. of cascade natural beef, brioche buns, local cheeses, fresh veggies and camden’s catsup! everything is delivered fresh daily, and cooked to order in an open kitchen. The new shop is to be located…

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Kokkaku – Japanese Meat House

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Reeve Baily, a Wallyhood reader and neighbor, alerted us of a new steakhouse in the old Miyabi place at 2208 N 45th Street.  He set out to get the story for us and was able to chat with the owners and the chef of this new Japanese inspired meat house called Kokkaku.  I love Japanese cuisine and had not heard of this new place yet, so I was happy to have Reeve give us the scoop.  Check out their website and…

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Investigation in Green Lake

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  I personally only like to share good news.  News about the artists, farmers, businesses and neighbors in our community, the things that make where we live great. I like to find beauty and bring light to the small and lovely things that surround us. But this terrible story of the 3 brothers in the house near Green Lake is deeply disturbing and I feel the community should be made aware. I cannot bring myself to write about it or even…

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The House of Julie

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Experience a unique variety show this evening August 24th from 7:30-9:30 pm in the Chapel Performance Space on the fourth floor of the Good Shepherd Center. The hostess, vocalist, interviewer, and entertainer of the night is local chanteuse Julie Cascioppo.  Julie builds community by bringing together talented people including visual artists and performers. Tonight's performance showcases local artists at an event she describes as "a cross between the Dinah Shore Show and Pee Wee's Playhouse" "It's a cross between the Dinah…

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