This Week in Seattle Food News: A New Rum Cocktail Bar Arrives, Pho Bac Expands Downtown, and A Hip Sports Bar Opens in Belltown – EverOut Seattle

The Seattle food scene is bustling with activity. This week’s food news brings a wave of openings including a new Pho Bac location, a new ice cream parlor, a new sports bar with a vintage vibe, and a new underwater-themed rum cocktail bar. Read on to learn about all of this and more exciting culinary developments, as well as several events this weekend, from the Dragon Fest Food Walk 2021 to the celebrations of Dough Joy, Flora Bakehouse and Hellbent Brewing and Flarard Tamales. You can find more ideas in our food and drink guide.

NEW OPENINGS AND RETURNS

Creamy cone cafe
This cheerful Black-owned ice cream parlor recently opened on Rainier Beach, just in time for this week’s scorching heat wave. The flavors range from passion fruit guava to banana pudding and salted caramel swirls. Other offerings include root beer floats, ice cream sundaes, and coffee beverages.
Rainier Beach
Pick up or outdoor seating

Good burger
Sharing a name with the 1997 Kenan and Kel comedy, this fast food restaurant opened in Shoreline and serves variations like Hawaiian burgers, teriyaki chicken burgers, and grilled mushroom burgers.
Coastline
Pickup, delivery, or limited indoor seating

Happy lemon
The popular Boba tea chain, known for its bubble waffles and salted cheese tea drinks, has opened an outpost in the University Village.
University district
Pickup, delivery, or limited indoor seating

In the Heart Speakeasy Bar
Malika Siddiq, owner of the West Seattle store Lika Love Boutique, has opened a cozy, stealthy New Orleans-style whispering bar in the back of her store. The menu offers muffuletta sandwiches, Creole-flavored popcorn, red beans and rice, jambalaya and gumbo, while the cocktail menu offers classic drinks such as the Hurricane and the Sazerac as well as new creations such as the “Milk Punch and Beignets” (vodka, coffee), liqueur, Kringle Cream and a hint of milk).
West Seattle
Limited indoor seating

Inner passage
We originally reported in early March 2020 that the team behind the venerable rum’s tropical cocktail bar was going to open Capitol Hill’s rumba this summer, but Coronavirus had other plans. Now the long-awaited water point is finally open. The bar had originally styled itself as a “Tiki themed” but given Tiki’s sinister colonial associations, they have since abandoned that plan in favor of an “immersive” underwater theme of the Pacific Northwest with marine life and locally inspired drinks.
Capitol
Pickup or limited indoor seating

Natalie is on Alki
This new place that serves milk tea drinks, lemonade, smoothies, sugar cane drinks and Vietnamese street food opened on Alki on Sunday.
West Seattle
Pickup, outdoor seating, or limited indoor seating

Pho Bac downtown
Seattle’s OG pho chain Pho Bac has opened its much-anticipated new downtown location, which offers the restaurant’s popular menu of noodle soups as well as banh mi, with home-baked bread. A whisper bar with Vietnamese-inspired cocktails will be opened on the upper floor of the location this summer.
Downtown
Collection or delivery

Rusty Pelican Café
This family-run coffee shop with locations in Edmonds and Mill Creek opened a third outpost in Woodinville on June 15 serving breakfast, lunch, cocktails, beer, and wine.
Woodinville
Pickup, delivery, or limited indoor seating

Stack571 burger and whiskey bar
This local burger chain with multiple locations across Washington will host the opening of their newest location at Kirkland’s Village Mall on Totem Lake next Tuesday, June 29th. The menu features hearty creations such as “Fatted Sow” (bacon, bourbon bacon coleslaw). , Bacon whiskey jam, Tillamook Cheddar, a dill pickle, marinated tomato, stack sauce and a beef and bacon patty) and the “Jimmy Burger” (barbecue pulled pork, sweet onions fried in buttermilk, a dill pickle, iceberg lettuce, paprika jack cheese and a minced meat patty) as well as an extensive selection of cocktails, whiskey (served on flights or at will), beer and wine.
Kirkland
Pickup, delivery, or limited indoor seating

Trade wind tavern
Owners Chris Elford and Anu Apte-Elford have replaced their self-proclaimed “Weird Beer and Rad Food” Pub No Anchor in Belltown with the retro neighborhood sports bar Trade Winds Tavern. The menu features updated pub grub like cheesesteak wantons, buttermilk fried cheese curd with ranch, jalapeño pineapple wings, short rib melts, and chips with blue cheese fondue. There is also a selection of playful, relaxed cocktails including Chai Sazeracs, Coconut Collins and Chris’ signature Sharpie Mustache (whiskey, gin and Amaro Meletti), as well as beer and natural wine.
Bell City
Pickup, outdoor seating, or limited indoor seating

Truffles and more
Truffles and More, a company specializing in chocolate-variety truffles, will open a temporary pop-up residence in the Ballard Blossoms building on Saturday. The building hosts several pop-ups, such as the popular donut shop Zuri’s Donutz.
Ballard
Pick up

FUTURE OPENINGS

Ben’s bread
The acclaimed bakery pop-up Ben’s Bread is set to open a store in Phinney Ridge sometime this fall. In addition to the coveted breads from baker Ben Campbell, breakfast sandwiches, donuts, cookies, grain bowls, espresso, beer and wine are also served here.
Phinney Ridge

OTHER FOOD NEWS

Chateau St. Michelle becomes an official partner of the Seattle Kraken
The famous Woodinville winery Chateau Ste. Michelle has announced that she will be one of the official partners of Seattle’s upcoming NHL team, the Seattle Kraken. The company will have a wine bar called Chateau and a marketplace for its popular 14-hands wine in the Climate Pledge Arena. They will also make Kraken branded wine and other compounds.

Inslee is removing the cap on app fees for deliveries
Governor Jay Inslee has lifted Washington’s limit on third-party app fees, which went into effect in November 2020, to help businesses grappling with the effects of COVID-19. However, Seattle still has a separate rule capping the shipping app fees to 15%.

POP-UPS AND EVENTS

Post Pike Pride Pop-Ups
Pop-up Fryday will be hurling crispy tubers with dipping sauces in flavors like Korean barbecue and gochujang aioli from the Capitol Hill Bar Post Pike on Friday evening (when else?). On Saturdays, the bar hosts the For Real Dough pop-up, which features hand pate, with options like sherry mushrooms, leeks and prosciutto, and Beecher’s flagship cheese with fig jam. Pride specials, including drunk popsicles, rainbow jell-o-shots, and cocktails (Blue Hawaiians, POG margaritas, and blackberry vodka lemonade) will be available throughout the weekend.
Post Hecht, Friday-Sunday

Cookie’s Country Chicken x Great Notion Ballard Pop-Up
It’s a match made in pop-up heaven: the finger-licking roast chicken Cookie’s Country Chicken takes over the kitchen at the award-winning Great Notion’s Ballard brewery, throwing its Chicken Sando Combos (normal or spicy), tendies, drumstick packs and summer sides.
Great Notion Ballard, Saturday, 12 p.m.-8 p.m.

Food walk for the kite festival 2021
An incredible boon for the curious, indecisive, and nourishing, the International District’s annual Dragon Fest features more than 30 restaurants offering food samples for just $ 2, plus many more attending ID-wide happy hour.
Hung Hay Park, Saturday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Summer Session Beer Festival
This outdoor beer festival features five or more low-alcohol beers from three different breweries for your daytime drinking pleasure, plus live music and midnite ramen food.
Figurehead Brewing, Saturday, 12 noon-10 p.m.

Pop-Up from Sweet Tooth Inc.
Modesto, Calif. Pop-up Sweet Tooth Inc. will be paying a visit to Tres Lecheria to toss their infamous Flamin ‘Hot Cheetos cupcakes, which the two bakeries first made together in the Netflix Sugar Rush baking contest.
Tres Lecheria, Saturday, 11 am-2pm

Hellbent Brewing and Flard Tamales Pride Celebration
Local companies Hellbent Brewing and Flarard Tamales (who share one owner) will join forces for an event on June 27th featuring handmade tamales, craft beer, macarons proudly from Alexandra’s macarons, live mariachi music and special pint Glasses are available for purchase. Part of the proceeds from the macarons, tamales, beer and pint glasses will benefit Entre Hermanos and YouthCare.
Hellbent Brewing Company, Saturday, 12 p.m.-8 p.m.

Dough joy on the hill for pride!
Enjoy confetti donut holes, mimosas, a photo box and other festive surprises from the queer vegan donut truck Dough Joy. All donations go to Lambert House, a local non-profit organization that supports LGBTQ youth.
Sole repair, Saturday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Flora Bakehouse Pride Weekend Fundraiser
Get a slice of living rainbow cake from Café Flora’s bakery, the Flora Bakehouse. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Trans Justice Funding Project, a community-led funding initiative founded in 2012 to support grassroots trans justice groups run by and for trans people in the United States.
The Flora Backhaus, Saturday-Sunday

Paellapalooza
Imagine being in Spain with this take-away pop-up from Ethan Stowell featuring a classic saffron rice paella, Spanish chorizo, clams, clams, prawns, braised chicken, green beans and piquillo peppers. Other options include a Valencia salad, patatas bravas, grilled spring onions, serrano ham, and frozen cocktails like the Hemingway Daiquiri and Tequila por mi Amante (tequila, strawberry, lemon and ginger).
Bramling Cross, Friday-Sunday June 30th-July 3rd

Robinson Family BBQ Pop-Up
Tom Douglas’s Ballard Diner is hosting a weekend barbecue pop-up with pork ribs, smoky Kansas City-style barbecue sauce, coleslaw, sriracha macaroni salad, cheesy corn bread, pecan cake, strawberry shortcake, boozy mango corn Tais and margarita slushies. Grab a plate to take away or relax at one of the outdoor restaurant’s picnic tables.
Serious take-away, Friday-Sunday

SPECIALTIES

The pastry project
When you need a frosty treat to cool off, this nonprofit organization based in Pioneer Square that offers free pastry and bakery training to those with barriers to entry is now offering soft-service to Mondeis with the help of Molly. (The nonprofit was founded by two former Molly Moon employees.) The ice cream will be available on Thursdays and Fridays throughout the summer.
Pioneering place
Pick up

Temple pastries
The sought-after Central District Bakery is going live with its new summer menu this weekend, so you can look forward to baked goods such as rose baklava cronuts, hearty Parmesan croissants, strawberry and rhubarb Danes and passion fruit cheesecake croissants.
Central district
Pick up