Wallingford small businesses invite the community to SIP and SHOP.

Third Thursday every month in June, July, and August from 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Stop by to support Wallyhood local businesses, enjoy a beverage or snack, and hang out! Hoping to repeat last year’s success, a growing number of neighborhood shops will go the extra mile while welcoming customers on the third Thursday of each month this summer. It all begins on the Summer Solstice this Thursday.

A few of the participating businesses include:

Bottle Works Cascadia Pharmacy Cedarhouse Flowers City Cellars Maison Blanc Pacific Northwest Shop Peti Boutique…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This last Saturday I attended the open house for the new Family Resource Center at Cedar Crossing Affordable Housing, one block north of the Roosevelt Light Rail Station. The resource center is run by Wallingford based FamilyWorks and was created to partially to increase services to families in need and to also give FamilyWorks space to expand the Wallingford Food Bank in the near future.

This new Family Resource Center initially opened in September of 2023, but this …

Wallyhood writer, DOUG. called Wallingford Porchfest “Seattle’s most DIY music festival”. Yesterday this community project came to life for it’s fourth iteration. Not even pouring rain could dampen the day.

Photos compiled by DOUG. and Megan throughout the day.…

What’s the deal with recycling? For the longest time, Seattle prided itself in being on the forefront of reducing the massive volumes of trash going into landfills by encouraging/mandating recycling. The footnote to that statement is that it HAD to…city-owned landfills had closed in the 1980s and been declared Superfund sites, and local waste disposal options were dwindling. Depending on how long you’ve been a Seattle resident, you may remember when we had color-coded milk crate-type bins into which we sorted glass, paper, and cans. It almost felt sacrilegious when we were told to toss all of our recycling into …

Wallingford has one of the best fine dining restaurants in Seattle in our midst at Art of the Table, 3801 Stone Way. The locally sourced, seasonal, ever changing tasting menu is one of my “go to” places to take out of town guests or celebrate a special anniversary or birthday, AOTT has a multitude of other offerings that can be enjoyed at any time.

This family owned restaurant has been operating in Wallingford for 17 years.  Husband and wife team Chef Dustin Ronspies and Shannon Van Horn have created an elegant, welcoming space where you can watch the work up …

Back by popular demand for its fourth consecutive year, Seattle’s most DIY music festival, Porchfest, will bring the rock, folk, hip hop, punk, and even a little marimba to northern Wallingford (aka Tangletown) on June 15.

Wallingford Porchfest began in the summer of 2021, as Seattle was slowly creeping out of COVID lockdown. We the people were newly vaxxed but still a little wary of indoor crowds, so a group of neighbors opened up their porches to local musicians, providing concert lovers a much needed dose of the live music experience they’d been craving for the previous sixteen months. And …

The milkman has been part of American culture starting in Vermont in 1785. Even today, Smith Brother’s Farm will gladly deliver milk and more to your front porch. But have you ever heard of the cider man?

Let me introduce you to Erik Madrid, co-owner with his wife Storie Madrid, of Press Then Press, an online Cider Shop. Erik would be glad to be your cider man and deliver your online purchases from their offerings of 500 varieties of fine cider. This is not the sweet apple cider we enjoy in the fall, or kids juice boxes. This is …