Restaurant

SATAY Malaysian Street Food (1711 N. 45th Street)  is celebrating its second anniversary this Sunday, December 9, and as a "thank you" to the community, they're giving a little something away in exchange for a small donation to Mercy Corps. Owner Peter Ringold gave us the scoop: Over the past two years we have been fortunate to have received tremendous support from the Wallingford community. We'd like to thank everyone for their support and invite them to come to Satay this Sunday, December 9th to celebrate…

Yoroshiku, the new Japanese restaurant in the old Joule space (1913 N. 45th St.) is now open, and Wallingford resident Ann Ishimaru went there on Sunday night and wrote to tell us all about it. Full disclosure, the owners of Yoroshiku are Ann's downstairs neighbors. But Ann gets major street cred for being a 4th generation Japanese American whose been to Japan several times; Plus, her daughter is in the Japanese language program at John Stanford International, and she's eaten A LOT…

Laura writes: My family walked up the street on Friday night hoping to get some great Mexican food at Casa Azul, only to be met with a darkened building and locked doors! Are they leaving? Kaput? What's the deal? Do you know or can you find out? I'm feeling very sad. They serve really delicious food - much better than the cheese fest that was there before them... Thanks! Wallyhood res. I also noticed the darkened space and yesterday, I saw…

Wallingford neighbor, Reeve Baily, spotted some activity in the former 'Joule' space on N. 45th on Friday evening. Here's what Reeve discovered: Lights on, door open, tools grinding...something was going on at the former 'Joule' space tonight. I popped my head in and met 'K' one of the partners of the new venture. 'It's going to be Japanese...but not Sushi,' he said. 'Think Yakitori...' he added with a grin. (I feel like I heard the exact same thing regarding the new place taking over the…

Congratulations goes to Maria Hines, owner of Tilth here in Wallingford and the Golden Beetle over in Ballard. Maria was one of over 80 chefs appointed by the U.S. State Department to the newly-created American Chef Corps under the Diplomatic Culinary Partnership with the James Beard Foundation. This means Hines and her peers will create meals for foreign dignitaries or, when necessary, will travel abroad to engage in public diplomacy programs. The announcement was made at the U.S. State Department last Friday,…