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Eater Seattle
1d ago
Pork sliders at T-Mobile Park. | Jack Ellis/Seattle Mariners
Crab pizza, grasshoppers, and pork belly sliders are highlights on this diverse ballpark menu
During the long, long spell when the Mariners were a bad, bad baseball team, T-Mobile Park still gave fans a reason to visit. Some of Seattle’s most notable restaurants have outposts here, including Marination, Ivar’s, Ballard Pizza Co., Lil Woody’s, Moto Pizza, and Pure Acai. Executive chef Javier Rosa of the Mariners’ hospitality partner Sodexo Live! has put his mark on the offerings at Holy Smoke barbecue and Edgar’s Cantina, a Mexican sp ..read more
Eater Seattle
3d ago
A burger at Halal Smash BRGR | Jay Friedman
Halal Smash BRGR aims to give Seattle Muslims a “good, classic burger”
As a child in Saudi Arabia, Mohammed Bu Jubarah would secretly spice up the dishes his mother was preparing. “For example, my mom would marinate fish with a blend she’d create at the local spice store,” he tells Eater Seattle. “She liked to keep the flavor light, but because I liked bold flavors, I would add more of her spice blend and salt when she was not looking. And when she’d make kabsa [a traditional Saudi rice and chicken dish], I would add sugar to balance the sour flavor ..read more
Eater Seattle
3d ago
The new McDonald’s near the Space Needle. | Harry Cheadle
Plus, yet another decorated bakery gets into the pizza game, and more news of the week
Fans of retro-futuristic architecture and fast food got something to celebrate on Friday, March 22, when a shiny new McDonald’s flagship store opened across the street from the Space Needle.
The new restaurant is owned by David Santillanes, a McDonald’s franchisee who owns 19 restaurants in the Seattle area, according to a press release announcing the new location. He previously ran the Seattle Center-adjacent McDonald’s that closed in 2022 to make wa ..read more
Eater Seattle
6d ago
Familyfriend’s burger has brought a lot of attention, but the menu goes far beyond that. | Lille Allen
The tiny Beacon Hill Guamanian spot has no website and no marketing, but it’s packed every night
If Elmer Dulla didn’t already know that the hype around his burger was getting out of hand, he definitely realized it last week, when he noticed that a couple customers at the bar of his Beacon Hill restaurant, Familyfriend, had unusual accents. They were from Ireland, they told him, and had planned to fly to New York for St. Patrick’s Day with a stopover in Las Vegas. But they saw a TikTok of Fam ..read more
Eater Seattle
1w ago
Some of Insomnia Cookies’ offerings. | Insomnia Cookies
The nationwide chain is planning to open a University District location this spring
Insomnia Cookies exists to serve a very specific segment of the marketplace. This segment of the marketplace sometimes finds itself awake very late and hungry, but also without any desserts on hand or the wherewithal to bake cookies — indeed, for this segment of the marketplace baking cookies feels like an impossible task. I mean, don’t you need ingredients for that? Flour, or whatever? That’s so much work! Why can’t someone just bring me a warm cookie rig ..read more
Eater Seattle
1w ago
The oven at a recent Pop Pop Pizza event. | Pop Pop Pizza
Pop Pop Pizza wants to bring thin-crust pizza to Seattle. It’s starting out by throwing dinner parties.
It’s hard to say what Pop Pop Pizza is exactly. It’s definitely not a restaurant, and not even really a pop-up. Its owner — though “owner” seems wrong, because Pop Pop barely exists as a thing to own — is Brian O’Connor, a restaurant industry vet who anticipates opening Pop Pop as a pizzeria and wine bar sometime in the future, but for now it’s more like a party he hosts in a shared space on the 40th floor of his Belltown apartment bu ..read more
Eater Seattle
1w ago
A vegetarian ragu dish at Pasta Casalinga. | Harry Cheadle
The metro area is full of great restaurants doing local riffs on pastas, pizzas, and more
Seattle has an interesting relationship with Italian food. Restaurants specializing in “Pacific Northwest cuisine” often have Italian flourishes on their menu — throw some local seasonal ingredients in some kind of pasta dish and you got yourself an entree, baby. And there are pizzerias galore all over Seattle serving a variety of styles. But true Italian restaurants are thinner on the ground here than they are in other regions of the U.S. More to ..read more
Eater Seattle
1w ago
A selection of meats from Grasslands Barbecue. | Grasslands Barbecue
Plus, a dinner where you can make friends with strangers, and more news of the week
This week Eater Seattle was at a pop-up dinner at a communal table when we happened to mention in passing that the owners of Oregon’s Grasslands Barbecue were coming back to Seattle for a pop-up this Friday through Sunday. (Talking at a pop-up about another pop-up is an occupational hazard.) “Wait, what??” exclaimed someone at the table who heard the words Grasslands Barbecue — they had recently moved to Seattle from Portland and used to drive ..read more
Eater Seattle
1w ago
The exterior of HoneyHole | Harry Cheadle
Travis Rosenthal, who owns several other restaurants, is relaunching the troubled Capitol Hill shop
HoneyHole, the sandwich shop that has been the site of some of Seattle’s most bizarre restaurant-related drama in the past year, is coming back — and the new owner is hoping for a fresh start.
“I honestly don’t know much about the details of the past,” new owner Travis Rosenthal, who owns several other restaurants under the Pike Street Hospitality Group banner, tells Eater Seattle. “I hope we just get back to making great sandwiches and drinks.”
Opened i ..read more
Eater Seattle
2w ago
Some bottles for sale at Halfseas. | Harry Cheadle
The Ballard restaurant is expanding across the street to Halfseas
Halfseas, the new wine bar and bottle shop from restaurateur Jen Doak, solves a few different problems at once.
Primarily it gives the bottles more room to breathe — formerly Halfseas had been inside Doak’s Brimmer and Heeltap compound on the corner of Market Street and Sixth Avenue Northwest, which also includes the coffee shop Red Arrow. Though the wine shop had a great selection, it was also a bit cramped, as anyone who stepped into the small single room can attest.
The new H ..read more