Wallingford, Seattle

The old Loki Cafe spot (2114 N 45th Street) has been empty since August, and guessing what's going to replace it has become something of a parlor game in Wallingford: a new Thai restaurant? Lunchbox Laboratory? Condos? In the hopes of getting some answers, we contacted Kate Perry, the Marketing Coordinator for Chow Foods (who operate The 5 Spot, The High Life, Coastal Kitchen, Atlas and others, and who we understand hold the lease). She replied: Thanks for getting in touch.…

We managed to peel ourselves off from work today long enough to stroll the Earth Day celebration in Wallingford. There was a marimba band playing music (from Hamilton Middle School), chalk, folks in costumes, kids, laughter, free cookies, and all sortsa Earth Day happitude. Congrats to Sustainable Wallingford for organizing! Is that Flat Stanley on the right?

No, no, nothing like that. This is a family blog. Just a couple of garden notes from around the 'hood. First, our friend Matt over on Ashworth tells us he started trying to cultivate morel mushrooms at home, carefully laying the spores on a bed of manure, ash and other select medium. It's not an easy undertaking, as evidenced by the fact that morel mushrooms have never been successfully farmed on a large scale. Virtually all the morels you eat are…

The big day is upon us! Hop in your car and drive on over to the paved parking lot outside of QFC (a wholly owned subsidiary of Kroger, the second largest retailer in the country) to celebrate... No wait, something is amiss. Let's try again. The grocery store at the heart of our community has donated space for this year's Earth Day celebration, a community-driven effort featuring No Sale Bake Sale Hamilton Middle School Band and Choir Treebeard the Ent Growing…

We're bubbling up this comment left on our post about Joule's Rachel Yang: Dear Wallyhood, My name is Dan and I’m a foodie from Seoul, South Korea. I just wanted to let Seattle know that Rachel Yang will be visiting Seoul to be the special guest at a rice cake fair. Thanks! Dan 7th Seoul International ‘Tteok’ Fair The 7th Seoul International ‘Tteok’ Fair, held on May 8th and 9th, will be a celebration of this time-honored Korean delicacy. Tteok or…

(The state of crime in Wallingford, and the police's reaction to it, is serious enough that I'm going to set aside the normal "Wallyhood We" conceit of this blog, and write this one in the first person singular. The playful, snarky tone doesn't seem appropriate.) I was so shocked by Kristi's comment to the Block Watch? post that I felt I needed to talk with the police about it before responding. It read, in part: I was one of the recent…

The next meeting of the North Recycling and Disposal Station Stakeholder Group is tomorrow, Tuesday, April 21 from 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm at the Hamilton Middle School (4400 Interlake). For those joining us late, the city is proposing a major remodel of the transfer station (aka "dump"), including expanding to N. Carr Street and the adjoining block, as well as building a larger, enclosed facility in the place of the semi-open air facility now there today. Some neighbors have objected…