One of Seattle’s Most Decadent Bakeries Is Expanding

We already teased this information a little bit bit earlier this month after we lined the closure of Lowercase Brewing’s taproom, however that Georgetown house is being taken over by the cakesmiths at Deep Sea Sugar and Salt, proprietor Charlie Dunmire introduced on Instagram Friday.

“What if I informed you that you simply’ll have the ability to sit inside (or on a PATIO) and eat your cake on an actual plate? With an actual FORK? With a COFFEE or a BEER?!” Dunmire wrote. “That’s proper, there’s sufficient room to have indoor seating once more, and we’re pumped!”

That is nice information for Deep Sea’s followers, who’re legion, as anybody who’s waited within the strains for Dunmire’s exquisitely layered muffins can attest. We don’t have any further particulars about when precisely this transfer will happen, however Dunmire stated that it will be in the course of the summer season and extra data (and a Kickstarter marketing campaign) will likely be forthcoming.

Yonder is popping right into a cider big

Yonder and The Source, two corporations each based and run by Caitlin Braam, simply finalized a merger, Yonder introduced earlier this week. Yonder was began in 2020 and grew 240 p.c in 2022, in line with a press launch, and is on observe to provide 175,000 gallons of cider this yr. The Source operated the ability that produced Yonder’s cider but additionally pressed and fermented apples for different manufacturers. Now that the 2 corporations are one, the aim is to broaden manufacturing to 600,000 gallons a yr, although Yonder will proceed to supply providers to different manufacturers, in line with Washington Beer Weblog.

Nice State Burger adjustments arms

Again in 2018, Renee Erickson’s Sea Creatures restaurant group purchased Nice State Burger together with assorted different eating places from Josh Henderson’s Huxley Wallace Collective (a sale that occurred across the identical time Henderson settled a wage theft lawsuit for $1 million). Now the six-location mini-chain is being bought once more, this time to Sea Creatures worker Nathan Yeager, who has been Nice State’s director of operations since that 2018 sale. A Sea Creatures press launch stated that Yeager plans to broaden the menu and add new places. He’ll even be relaunching Bistro Shirlee, a restaurant that shared house with Nice State’s Bryant/Laurelhurst location till it closed in 2020.