This week, the behemoth burger monger Katsu Burger Like List debuts its new restaurant and bakery in Edmonds, and the takeout spot Secret Congee Like List brings comforting bowls of rice porridge to Wallingford. In other news, Maria Hines' landmark organic-certified restaurant Tilth Like List says farewell, and the celebrated Orcas Island pizzeria Hogstone's Wood Oven launches a subscription delivery service with frozen pizzas and natural wine. Read on for all that and more food-world updates. For additional inspiration, check out our food and drink guide.

NEW OPENINGS AND RETURNS

Katsu Burger & Bakery Like List
The local Japanese fusion burger joint known for its towering deep-fried tonkatsu-style patties and unique milkshakes has opened its new outpost in Edmonds. In a first for the chain, this location also has a bakery, offering house-made milk brioche buns, mini pies, palmiers in matcha and kinako-black sesame flavors, cookies, and croissant-muffin hybrids.
Edmonds

Ramen Ramen Like List
This new ramen pop-up from Sam Choy’s Poke to the Max cofounder Max Heigh, which has its grand opening Like List in the parking lot of the Hawaiian restaurant's Rainier Valley location today, will feature ramen with a Hawaiian twist, using unconventional ingredients like truffle crab, smoked beef brisket, and salmon.
Rainier Valley

Sabine Cafe Bar and Market Like List
The Ballard bistro Bastille Like List , which has been closed since March, is getting ready to morph into Sabine Cafe Bar and Market, opening October 28. The upcoming cafe is modeled on trendy counter-service spots like Los Angeles's Sqirl and Gjusta and will feature a counter with small plates like toast, bowls, and sandwiches available for takeaway, plus two patios and a dining room. There will also be a cocktail menu, an espresso menu, and a market area with pantry items like coffee beans and chili crisp for sale.
Ballard

Secret Congee Like List
A warm, comforting bowl of congee (rice porridge) is a soothing balm for the soul on a cold day. Luckily, the new takeout spot Secret Congee has its grand opening Past Event Like List inside the Juisala juice shop in Wallingford today. The menu features toppings like miso roasted kabocha squash, blue crab, and braised pork belly, as well as organic soy milk (served hot or cold). The restaurant also focuses on using organic meat and sustainable seafood.
Wallingford

Spice Box Like List
This Indian restaurant recently appeared in the former space of Moti Mahan Indian Cuisine on Capitol Hill and is open for takeout, delivery, or dine-in. The menu includes samosas, pakoras, soups, salads, a special house curry with a spiced onion-based gravy, butter masala, rogan josh (a Kashmiri lamb curry), biryani, wraps, Indian-inspired burgers, and flatbreads like roti and naan.
Capitol Hill

Temple Pastries Like List
Following last week's soft opening Like List , baker Christina Wood's pop-up bakery Temple Pastries, known for exquisite sourdough pastries (including croissants, croissant pretzels, and "cruffins") made with locally milled buckwheat, rye, and whole wheat, will officially open its highly anticipated brick-and-mortar cafe in the former space of Broadcast Coffee's Central District location today. The bakery is teaming up with Broadcast Coffee and will feature a full espresso bar, as well as croissants, breakfast sandwiches, macarons, doughnuts, and more. In November, Broadcast will also have a roasting space next door.
Central District

CLOSURES

Barça Like List
The swanky Capitol Hill cocktail lounge has closed its big and creaking doors for good.
Capitol Hill

Cow Chip Cookies Like List
This Western-themed chocolate cookie bakery and longtime tourist favorite known for its exceptionally gooey offerings closed its Pioneer Square location in September after 34 years of business. The shop's Kent Station and Redmond Town Center locations remain open, and their cookies are also available online.
Pioneer Square

Tarsan i Jane
This intimate Fremont fine-dining destination run by chef Perfecte Rocher and his wife Alia Zaine is in the process of closing. The couple is expecting a second child in January and has decided to move back to Los Angeles to be closer to the rest of their family.
Fremont

Tilth Like List
Oof: Tilth, the iconic Seattle restaurant tucked away in a homey Wallingford craftsman bungalow, is closing permanently next Friday, October 30. James Beard Award-winning chef Maria Hines was poised at the forefront of the farm-to-table scene, and hers was the second restaurant in the country to be certified organic. In 2006, Bethany Jean Clement wrote a rhapsodic rave review of the then-new restaurant for The Stranger, calling it “your new favorite restaurant” and praising its “screamingly wonderful” food and “quintessential flavors, lushness, comfort, delight.” Before it’s gone for good, go pay your respects and try its lovely seasonal dishes like squash risotto and sweet potato turmeric soup one last time. The restaurant is booked up with dine-in reservations through its closing date, but the menu is available for takeout.
Wallingford

POP-UPS AND EVENTS

RAD TV: Sagra di Radicchio Past Event Like List
Each year, the Sagra di Radicchio, inspired by the Italian tradition of the sagra (a festival usually celebrating local food), devotes a full week of revelry to the refreshingly bitter radicchio (also known as chicory). Of course, this year's festivities will take a slightly different form, but, in the words of the event's organizers, "You can't keep a good chicory down." A whole day of live and recorded virtual programming is planned on the event's MTV-inspired "Rad TV" YouTube channel, including history, culture, cooking, Cribs-style tours, travel, and more. Deadlines have passed for ordering a Radicchio Box package from the event’s farm partners, but fear not: Local restaurants like Petite Soif, Vif, and Off Alley will showcase chicory specials on their menus.
Online, Saturday

Seattle Restaurant Week Past Event Like List
Frugal gourmands everywhere rejoice over this twice-yearly event, which lets diners tuck into prix-fixe menus at restaurants hoping to lure new customers with singularly slashed prices. This year, things will look a little different: To give the restaurant industry a much-needed boost during COVID-19, Seattle Restaurant Week is featuring more restaurants and more dining options and is extending the event to last an entire month. Restaurants will feature a variety of special meal offerings as $20 lunches and/or $35 dinners, including make-at-home meal kits, food and cocktail packages, in-house three-course meals, and more. It's a great opportunity to both support local restaurants and break out of your Postmates rut. In addition, Seattle Restaurant Week will also be partnering with Plate of Nations Past Event Like List , an event run by the MLK Business Association to highlight southeast Seattle businesses.
Various locations, October 25-November 21

Li'l Woody's Fast Food Month Past Event Like List
For the month of October, local burger joint Li'l Woody's is cleverly recreating fast food favorites for its weekly specials. The current special is the McDonald's dupe Li'l Big Mac (October 20), with fry sauce, dill pickles, diced onion, shredded lettuce, American cheese, grass-fed beef, and a center-cut sesame bun. Next, the Li'l Crunch Wrap (October 27), Li'l Woody's interpretation of the Taco Bell Crunch Wrap Supreme with chipotle mayo, shredded lettuce, pico de gallo, tostada, house-made queso, and grass-fed beef, wraps things up (pun not intended).
Various locations, through October

Nightmare on Wall Street Past Event Like List
As a spooky-season tradition, Belltown’s award-winning tiki bar Navy Strength temporarily transforms into a “fully immersive haunting experience" each October, with libations inspired by classic and modern horror flicks. This year, they're bringing the spine-chilling immersive experience home to you with weekly cocktail kits for you to take home, make, and enjoy while watching the film they're based on, complete with popcorn, snacks, and your very own keepsake zombie glass. This year's lineup includes drinks inspired by Mandy, It Follows, and more.
Belltown, through November 1

SPECIALS

Off Alley Like List
The recently opened Columbia City restaurant, which focuses on whole-animal, nose-to-tail cookery and natural wine, currently has a creative fall dessert: a Black Futsu pumpkin filled with steamed custard and served with smoked honey and granola.
Columbia City
Dine-in

Trophy Cupcakes
The gourmet cupcake bakery is embracing fall with caramel apple cupcakes and caramel apple macarons made with Washington apples, as well as pumpkin pie cupcakes made with homemade pumpkin pie filling.
Various locations
Pickup and delivery

Macrina Bakery
The local bakery chain has pan de muerto, the sweet Mexican bread traditionally eaten to celebrate Día de Los Muertos, available for a limited time.
Various locations
Pickup and delivery

OTHER NEWS

Hogstone's Wood Oven launches pizza club
The acclaimed wood-fired Orcas Island pizzeria Hogstone's Wood Oven, which has been nominated for multiple James Beard awards, is bringing its prime pies to the greater Seattle area with a subscription-based pizza and natural wine club, delivering ready-to-bake frozen pizzas that are sure to blow Digiorno's out of the water. Customers can sign up to receive two pizzas and two bottles of wine each month for $135 per month, or four bottles of wine and four pizzas for $250 a month, with a minimum three-month subscription. Free delivery is currently available to Anacortes, Skagit Valley, Bellingham, Seattle Metro, and up to five miles east or west of I-5 between Seattle and Bellingham, and Hogstone's is working to expand their delivery range in the future.

Free outdoor dining permits are extended until next year
Outdoor dining is here to stay: Seattle announced on Friday that it will extend free, expedited outdoor dining permits to restaurants through October 2021. The city is also issuing free tent and heater permits so restaurants can have heated and/or covered patios and will allow restaurants to store their outdoor dining equipment outside at all times (which was previously not allowed by the Seattle Fire Department without a cost-prohibitive permit).

Car crashes into Dim Sum King
On Thursday afternoon, a Toyota Camry crashed into the Chinatown-International District restaurant Dim Sum King Like List , leaving seven injured, with six hospitalized and two in critical condition. The driver apparently accelerated backwards while attempting to park the car, according to the official Seattle Police Department report, though the incident is currently under investigation. The restaurant wrote in a Facebook post, "We are unfortunately going to need to close Dim Sum King for today until the end of next week. It’s been a tough time, having to weather through the hardships that we’ve all felt throughout this pandemic, and while this incident surely deepens that wound, we are appreciative of all the support you’ve already given us during this time."

Baja Bistro is moving
The beloved, queer-owned Mexican diner/gay bar Baja Bistro Like List in Beacon Hill closed earlier this summer, but worry not: They're just moving and will re-open in a new space Like List at Beacon and McClellan.