High Fat Content
Seattle’s Juiciest Beef
Ramen pop-up from the Sam Choy’s team, more Ballard closures and gentrification in the South End.
Hello Seattle! Secret Congee is here! PC: @secretcongee
It’s Windy. Warm Up With Congee
Congee, the savory porridge with roots in China and Southeast Asia, is headed to Wallingford. Options from pork belly to miso roasted squash will garnish the namesake dish beginning with a soft opening next Wednesday. Crisp Chinese donuts and marinated century eggs are available on the side as well with most congee dishes running at $14. The dish is a comforting household staple and, thus, is quite hard to find in Seattle outside of some fantastic options in Chinatown. If you know of any places you love to grab congee, please reach out on Instagram @stews_thebeef.
Secret Congee
4405 Wallingford Ave N, Wallingford
Sam Choy’s Team Does Ramen
The Seattle Ramen scene has died down as of late but a new pop-up in Hillman City is here to rectify that. Ramen Ramen will dole out unexpected versions of the classic noodle soup dish. The opening is set for next Friday, October 23rd, but no official menu has dropped other than a gorgeous picture of a Crab & Truffle Ramen. This pop-up comes from the team behind Sam Choy’s Poke to the Max, and will utilize their dormant food trucks and parking lot on a visible stretch of Rainier Ave. Hillman City has seen lauded attention recently with The Flour Box’s opening and national praise for Archipelago on Rainier. That attention does not, however, come without the adverse effects gentrification brings.
Ramen Ramen
5300 Rainier Ave S, Hillman City
Crab & Truffle Ramen, PC: @eatramenramen
No Bones Takes A Dive in Ballard
No Bones Beach Club, a fixture since 2016 on 17th Ave NW, is calling it quits. Mackenzie DeVito is closing her community-centered vegan cafe in Ballard citing a small kitchen space that does not allow for social distancing. The Portland location shuttered in August and a Chicago location is currently listed as “temporarily closed,” my Ballard reports. This is yet another closure for Ballard in the past week, an area which hasn’t yet seen the worst of small business closures due to Coronavirus impacts.
No Bones Beach Club
5410 17th Ave NW, Ballard
All-Too Common Displacement Battle in the South End
Pho Bo, a community Vietnamese institution in Columbia City, might lose their prime location on Rainier Ave. Developers are waiting on the design review finalization before they demolish and construct a brand new luxury high rise by 2021. South Seattle Emerald highlights an all-too common displacement battle here. Be forewarned, it is a tragic tale. Columbia City and the entirety of the South End have endured enormous spouts of gentrification in recent years with “Don’t Displace the South End” signs becoming all too common in locals’ front yards.
Pho Bo
4732 Rainier Ave S, Columbia City