Tom Douglas reopens Dahlia Bakery and 31 other new restaurant openings in Seattle

Tom Douglas, who raised the alarm about last year’s pandemic and closed all of his restaurants, is slowly retreating to downtown. The James Beard Award-winning restaurateur, who received $ 10 million from the US Small Business Administration’s Restaurant Revitalization Fund, plans to reopen The Carlile Room in mid-August and then Lola, according to management. He has also relocated his two marquee brands to the former restaurant area of ​​the Dahlia Lounge. The downtown Serious Pie, which reopened last year, has moved to this prime property. Douglas also tore down the wall between Dahlia Bakery and Dahlia Lounge to expand its bread and dessert operations. In contrast to the former tiny, claustrophobic Dahlia Bakery that was more for take-away orders, the new bakery is a café with plenty of indoor and outdoor seating. The bakery is open Wednesday through Sunday, but management is rushing to hire more pastry chefs who open daily to take advantage of the returning tourists and office workers.

For its relaunch, Douglas launched a new sweet and savory line-up that includes meat pies and the focaccia-like fossette with lemon-rosemary and other toppings and spreads. For those with a sweet tooth, the Triple Coconut Cream Pie remains the synonym of the Douglas dessert brand, but the OH Mochi Donuts are more popular. In comparison, many other mochi donuts taste syrupy, sweet or sour. Douglas’ mochi donuts are coated with real berries; They’re also denser while retaining the chewy, stretchy texture that mochi fanatics crave. And of course, the peanut butter sandwich cookies are back, a favorite of the late, great Nora Ephron.

Chef Brian Clevenger opens on Phinney Ridge autumn, presents its signature handmade pasta, seafood and vegetable dishes. However, autumn is more Mediterranean-inspired than its other bistros. Chef Nick Chiaro, a former sous-chef at Canlis, will lead the fall kitchen for Clevenger, who also runs six other eateries in town. The 39-seat Autumn can accommodate 16 more outside on the terrace.

Technically, Tio babies is a reopening as former Westward chef Will Gordon started this company six days before the pandemic and then had to shut down by government order for safety reasons. Tio Baby’s is back, running seven days a week at Rose Temple Bar on Capitol Hill, making beer sponges like hot dogs, nachos, wings, and queso waffle fries.

Look who’s back too: Jackson’s Catfish Corner. Anyone who has lived within earshot of the Central District knows this opening from the massive block party Catfish Corner hosted last month. In addition to the dish of the same name, there are fried snapper, chicken wings and chicken strips. Terrell Jackson now runs the soul food café, which was founded in 1985 by his grandparents Woody and Rosemary Jackson. The restaurant was sold in 2009 and closed in 2012 before Jackson revived the concept and brought back his family’s secret recipes.

Now there is jambalaya, muffuletta and other NOLA foods and to sip a Sazerac or the French 75 at In the heart, located at the back of the Lika Love Boutique in West Seattle.

Sitting near the beach Natalie is on Alki, a Vietnamese bubble tea and dessert spot that sells fresh sugar cane juices and delicacies like grilled pork buns. Also at the Bubble Tea Appeal: Happy lemon in the university village and Sharetea in West Seattle. If you’re a newbie to Boba, check out Amy Wong’s Bubble Tea Primer here.

On Capitol Hill, the popular pop-up Blotto pizza hurls New York-inspired pizza in the former chungee room. Blotto also set up a pantry corner to sell artisanal products, including tortillas from Milpa Masa in West Seattle.

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Nearby another former pop-up, Karachi cowboys, also achieved a stationary space to prepare mostly vegetarian Indian and Pakistani rice dishes like the red lentil curry.

LTD Edition Sushi opens a few steps from Cal Anderson Park and makes omakase snack for the time being. LTD is located in the former space of the Cure Cocktail Bar, which now shares space with the Remedium Island Grill on Capitol Hill.

In Fremont, Brandon Marie, former chef at How to Cook a Wolf, runs the kitchen at Crumbly sandwich & spirits, which offers craft cocktails and some carnivorous Sammies.

For the nightly Belltown hoppers, now that her Lebanese-Mexican fusion pop-up shows up, Chef Lupe Flores is going to drop some vegetarian and meat tacos for you in the fryer Situ tacos has a permanent address in the Jupiter Bar.

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Shikorina pastries Head chef Hana Yohannes bakes brown butter-vanilla cakes, homemade strawberry pop tarts and cakes in the Central District with an emphasis on regional, organic and fair trade ingredients.

Dué kitchen opens its third fast-casual store in Roosevelt to present fresh pasta and bread. Roosevelt is the largest location with a spacious kitchen that allows the kitchen team to offer more dishes than is served in its outlets on Capitol Hill and in Kirkland.

Seatango foods is the Argentine bakery in Lake City that specializes in empanadas, from the traditional beef fillings to an American breakfast-inspired version filled with eggs and bacon. Also on the menu: sandwiches and South American pastries.

The pop-up Garzon also operates the food truck Ekéko to sell South American-inspired “drink snacks”. Look for it every Thursday at Fair Isle Brewing in the Ballard Brewery District. Fair Isle Brewing has hosted some of the best pop-ups in town and featured many talented chefs, including Melissa Miranda.

Dough joy, the vegan food truck in Ballard, focuses on plant-based donuts such as “The Faconator” with maple glaze and coconut bacon.

One of the most popular Vietnamese soup restaurants in Seattle, Pho Bac, expanded with a noodle house in the city center, with chicken, beef rib, shrimp and vegan pho. Pho Bac will soon open a bar in this downtown area.

Niku Niku Japanese barbecue is the new tenant in the Asian Food Center near Bitter Lake on Aurora Avenue North. Niku Niku is part of the new wave of Japanese grill restaurants, offering Wagyu and other marbled dishes that you prepare at the dining table.

The Korean fried chicken craze goes with the arrival of. further Mr. Chicken in the Chinatown International District. In Little Saigon, Sushi Avenue opens at the Pacific Rim Center.

In North Seattle Sunflower garden offers Chinese take-away options from stir fry to fried rice, as well as lunch options for $ 9.95 to $ 10.95, including Mongolian beef and orange chicken.

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Erik Jackson and Alison Odowski, who had many standout pop-ups and guest chef dinners at their Good Day Donuts, improved the culinary scene at the White Center and added a dessert counter in a shop called. opened Cake + trees in the central district. Look for lemon velvet (a buttermilk and lemon cake with cream cheese frosting) and a banana cake with a sea salt and caramel glaze.

Sitting across the street from that cake counter Honey hole, which has been expanded to include a full bar and large terrace near the Seattle University campus. Both Good Day Donuts and HoneyHole made our best sandwich roundup earlier this year. Read it here.

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For fans of Momiji who are tired of waiting for a seat at the Capitol Hill sushi spot, there is now Momiji South Lake Union, located in Amazon’s Nitro North building.

Pan Pacific Hotel houses the new South Lake Kitchen & Bar, with steak for the expense report and the obligatory cheeseburger and roast chicken sandwich for the bar crowd.

Speaking of hotels, the chic Fairmont Olympic Hotel has the lights dimmed and turned into sleek Olympic bar in the middle of the lobby as part of the $ 25 million facelift. Bartenders presented a new cocktail, The Seattleite (Olympic Honey Vodka, Amaro Montenegro, Espresso, Lemon) made with honey from the apiaries on the hotel’s roof garden.

On the bagel front Loxsmith bagels, a popular pop-up, has rented a room during the day to operate from the Nacho Borracho dive bar on Capitol Hill while Bagobop, specializing in breakfast sandwiches, debuts at Pike Place Market.

For those hot summer afternoons Creamy cone cafe offers 12 flavors of ice cream in Rainier Beach while Matcha man ice cream & taiyaki Debut in Georgetown.