Restaurant

Joule Serves Up Its Winter Supper Series

Wallingford's very own Joule hosts its second annual winter supper series, serving family style comfort food, which to me sounds like just the thing to ward off those winter blues. From Joule's website: Joule presents 2nd annual Winter Supper 2010: Globe Trekker Series. We will serve a casual family style meal around different themes on Sundays from January through March. Each dinner will have 5-7 different dishes that are to be shared among the table. Please visit Joule's Facebook page weeks…

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New Year’s Eve Dinner

Has it really been 10 years ago since Y2K? Remember how scared we were that computers everywhere would fail? The frantic stockpiling of provisions and ammunition in the face of the imminent collapse? No? OK, maybe that was just us. Anyhoo, what's your plans for this New Year's Eve, the end of the Aughts? Scribbling resolution lists on the back of a cocktail napkin? Drinking away the memory of the 9/11, the second Bush Adminstration, the resulting rollback of civil liberties,…

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Truly Bizarre

I’ve probably passed by Bizarro Italian Café a hundred times, but last weekend was the first time I actually noticed the 23-year-old restaurant, located on Stone Way and 46th. From just the entryway, my boyfriend and I were able to take in the entirety of the lively, intimate interior: chefs whipped through the kitchen, tending to an array of saucepans; mouthwatering scents burst into the dining area as the cooks passed piping hot pastas, blanketed in rich cream sauces, through the…

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Essential Baking leaving Wallingford

Eagle-eyed tipsters saw a note tucked into the Wallingford eNews that the Essential Baking Company is planning to shut their Wallingford bakery down. Wha-what? But...but...Rosemary Diamante! We gave Lee at EBC a call to find out what the scoop was, and he confirmed that, while the exact plans are still being solidified, they are planning to move out of the bakery this Spring. A few years back, they acquired Parisian Star Desserts down in the Cloverdale area of South Seattle and…

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Solsticio

The past week or so, Wallyhood readers have been treated to posts about Gypsy Cafe and (sort of) Essential Baking.  So, in the spirit of covering all the coffee shops in a single 2 block radius, we'd like to tell you about Solsticio at 34th & Stone Way.  They're not strictly Wallingford -- but they're only a few feet on the wrong side of the boundary, so we'll think of them as Fremont-on-the-cusp-of-Wallingford. Solsticio opened October 1st in the old Speedy Reedy…

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Bamboo Village coming to Wallingford

Eagle-eyed Wallyhood Reader Jay W. spotted construction (and a bit of overexuberant hedge-cutting) underway at 49th and Stone Way where Home Realty used to be. A bit of web searching, and he turned up this permit, which authorizes the construction of a "1-story addition to the west of existing comm bldg, interior tenant improvements, establish use as restaurant (Bamboo Village) and occupy all per plan."

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Candles Cafe in the Wind

The folks over at My Green Lake spotted this one for us on Craigslist: CANDLES CAFE AND SANDWICH SHOP IN WALLINGFORD FOR SALE!!! THIS CAFE HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED FOR 5 YEARS IN THE HEART OF WALLINGFORD. IT IS KNOWN FOR ITS SANDWICHES AND HOMEMADE SOUP. THE CAFE COMES FULLY EQUIPT WITH ALL THE SHOP HAS TO OFFER. KITCHEN IS ALREADY CUT AND READY FOR A HOOD, THE PATIO IN THE BACK MAKES A GREAT BEER AND WINE GARDEN. THIS IS A…

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