A Chef With a Michelin-Starred Background Opens an Alki Beach Restaurant

Washington-born chef Dan Mallahan, and his spouse, Jackie Mallahan, who each have expertise at Michelin-starred eating places, are opening their first restaurant in Seattle’s Alki Seaside neighborhood later this summer season. The restaurant, known as Driftwood, will characteristic extraordinarily native components — together with fish sourced with partnerships with the Quinalt and Makah tribes, based on a press launch.

Dan grew up in Everett and spent his free time foraging for berries and mushrooms in close by forests. He went on to work on the Michelin-starred Boulevard restaurant in San Francisco, the place Jackie additionally labored earlier than delving right into a profession in inside design. Dan moved again to Seattle in 2017 to open Rider, a now-shuttered seafood restaurant downtown.

The area could have 48 indoor seats and a 22-seat patio, with a bar providing views of the Puget Sound. Its menu will characteristic dishes like snap peas with inexperienced strawberries and house-made feta, clams with glazed pork stomach and buttered turnips, and apple cake with bourbon caramel, bitter apple sorbet, and creme fraiche.

A Kickstarter marketing campaign has raised over $26,00 to assist fund the restaurant, and updates will probably be posted on Driftwood’s Instagram.

Driftwood will probably be positioned at 2722 Alki Avenue SW. Hours will probably be 3 p.m. to 10 p.m., Thursday by Monday.

Ethan Stowell opens a second location of The Victor Tavern downtown

Seattle restauranteur Ethan Stowell, who owns eating places like How To Cook dinner a Wolf and Tavolàta, opened a second location of The Victor Tavern on the base of the two+U workplace tower close to Pike Place Market on June 29.

Maybe Stowell’s most informal restaurant idea, The Victor Tavern caters to downtown workplace employees with a contented hour (4 p.m. to six p.m.) menu that includes bites like beef tartare, spicy calamari, grass-fed beef burgers, veggie burgers, and fish and chips, served with $10 cocktails, $6 draft beers, and $7 glasses of wine.

The area will characteristic a 40-seat indoor eating room, a 16-seat bar, a 20-seat non-public eating room, and 10 tables on a coated patio that’s secluded from the bustle of 1st Avenue.

Shota Nakajima plans one other dinner with fellow “Prime Chef” alums

Seattle superstar chef Shota Nakajima is bringing three latest Prime Chef alums to Seattle for dinners on August 4 and August 5. Tickets for the six-course collaboration dinners with cooks Joe Sasto from Prime Chef Season 15, Sarah Welch from Season 19, and Sara Hauman from Season 19, are going for $450 and went on a sale immediately. The occasion will probably be held at Redhook Brewlab in Capitol Hill.

Whereas Nakajima’s superstar chef dinners (like his latest occasion with Michael Voltaggio in Woodinville) are a good way to satisfy TV personalities in individual, the programs are usually not all the time probably the most filling — if you happen to’re nonetheless hungry after dinner, you’ll be able to all the time head to the tip of the block from Redhook for a bucket of fried hen from Nakajima’s restaurant, Taku.