Join your neighbors for an Earth Day Clean Up on Saturday, April 19th. Starting at 10 am, volunteers will gather at the southeast corner of N 45th Street and Wallingford Avenue N (across from QFC near Cascadia Pharmacy). Supplies, such as trash grabbers, gloves, trash bags, and safety vests will be available to help you safely beautify our neighborhood. The bi-annual clean up event is sponsored by the Wallingford Community Council, Historic Wallingford, and the City of Seattle’s Adopt-a-Street program. This is a family-friendly event, and kids are welcome. The organizers, Will and Mike will be able to plan for …
Chipotle to Open at Former Taco Time Site on 45th
After 50 years serving the PNW twist on Mexican food, Taco Time on 45th and Corliss closed in July. According to an article published in The Seattle Times, business slowed significantly during the pandemic, and increases in the cost of labor and food caused them to close this location. The funky mirrored glass building, built in 1990, was soon covered with graffiti and its parking lot was littered with trash.
Taco Time had a special place in the hearts of locals, according to Eater Seattle, with Seattleites feeling sentimental about the Taco Time menu and the quirky building. This played …
Finding Respite –Sustainable Wine on Stone Way
It was a dark and drizzly week night in early December when I met a friend to check out one of our area’s new wine bars, Respite. Seems like a perfect opening for a detective story, and I had some sleuthing to do, as the concept of sustainable wine is new to me.
Two friends, Haley Meade and Madisyn Scribner, founded their business in 2022, and opened its permanent location at 4106 Stone Way North on August 14th. They believe in wines made sustainably, with care and focus, by transparent wine makers. To quote their website “We want to know …
Finding Sushi in Wallingford: A Family Tale with a Happy Ending
Back in the early seventies, my dad came back from a business trip to Japan hooked on sushi, which was rather unheard of in our Oklahoma town, population 25,000. If I remember correctly, there weren’t any Japanese restaurants in the state (maybe Benihana in Oklahoma City?). About ten years passed before our family moved to Houston, and later, to New Jersey. We all learned how to use chopsticks, and got comfortable eating and ordering raw fish. After I went off to school in NYC, a visit from “Mr Bob” was always the perfect excuse to find a sushi restaurant and …
Fainting Goat Gelato is Back Up and Running
Here’s the scoop for gelato lovers: after almost 6 months, The Fainting Goat has reopened in a new location. Owners Yalçin and Sevim Ataman shut down operations in December 2023 after the building where they were leasing (next to Chase Bank) sold to an apartment building developer. Challenges, including the permitting process, delayed their reopening until last week.
The new storefront landed them between Sea Monster and Taco Time on 45th. They make fresh gelato daily from local organic milk and seasonal fruits. Flavors rotate frequently, but some in the regular line up include stracciatella, pistachio, Mexican vanilla bean, chocolate …