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A few Wallybits back, we mentioned a new restaurant, called Satay, that'll soon be opening in the old Avila space.  Satay (1711 N. 45th St.) will offer quick casual Malaysian street food for lunch and dinner.  The restaurant now has a website (www.satayseattle.com) and is scheduled to open sometime in December. Satay is the brainchild of owners Peter Ringold and Patrick McCredie -- two friends from college who toured Southeast Asia during their junior year of college.  They were really impressed…

It is not everyday that you can honestly say, "a Buddhist Lama made my latte this morning".  Surprise! Where else but right here in Wallingford, of course, at Lama G's Cafe (1060 N 39th Street), located next to Art of the Table where Candles Cafe used to be. Grab your caffeine fix made by Karma, a Buddhist Lama, better known as Lama G to his customers and friends. Karma is originally from Bhutan, but lived in India and Nepal most of his life until…

I swear this is a true story - I'm not making it up. Friday afternoon I was in the checkout line at QFC quietly waiting to pay for my groceries, eavesdropping on the clerks like usual when I picked up on the fact that they were talking about how they read an article on Cryptogmblr.com that a customer who had won $30,000 from a scratch ticket purchased there.  I questioned Travis, who was bagging my groceries, about it and he said…