Dinner Delivered
Take heed, homebodies: This neighborhood spot will send a ridiculous variety of foods straight to your door.
Posted by: Allecia Vermillion on Jan 12, 2012 at 10:15AM
No minimum and no delivery fee…though you’ll miss out on The Lucky Diner’s cheerful dinerrific space. Photo via Facebook.
Seattle’s food scene is epic and varied in many ways. Delivery is not one of them. No disrespect to the pizza, Chinese, Thai and Indian deliveries that have sustained many a rainy and lazy evening. But sometimes you just need a pork chop sandwich delivered straight to the couch. Or some biscuits and gravy. Or an omelet…wait, that probably wouldn’t travel well.
Good news for Belltowners who are subject to such dinnertime cravings: The Lucky Diner has begun delivery service from 5-10pm Monday through Saturday, and 5-9 on Sunday. Owner Justin Mevs says he’d like to expand the times (I’d guess the weekend morning hangover crowd would be quite lucrative) and the delivery zone if the service proves successful. Right now his delivery area is bounded by Western Avenue, Fifth Avenue, Denny Way and Virginia Street.
Mevs lets couch-based customers order off the full range of breakfast, lunch, and dinner items. And his menu, in true diner fashion, is a large one. He told me that offering delivery just seemed like a logical next step for an establishment focused on serving the neighborhood.
Since opening this past spring, the diner has given Belltown a much-needed destination for a casual meal from morning till night; it’s even open 24 hours Friday through Sunday. Servers in locally designed retro outfits serve up fare several notches above the typical greasy spoon versions. Mevs is big on serving the neighborhood rather than trying to become a destination restaurant…though the Lucky Diner’s Facebook page has more than a few pleas for delivery service to Ballard or West Seattle.
So give the Lucky Diner a call next time you’re feeling hungry and/or lazy. There’s currently no delivery fee or minimum order requirement…though Mevs says he might reevaluate that as the service becomes more established. Just remember: Tipping the delivery person is always a classy move. Especially when the weather is bad.
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Seattle Restaurant Openings
Online pie delivery service gets a permanent home on Phinney. Take a look inside before the doors open.
Posted by: Allecia Vermillion on Nov 07, 2011 at 02:15PM
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Bourbon butterscotch pie. Photo: Lucas Anderson
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Coffee, pie and ice cream. Photo: Lucas Anderson
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The shop’s merchandise includes shirts with saying like ‘Home Slice’ and ‘Pie-curious’. Photo: Lucas Anderson
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Apple and ginger pear pie. Photo: Lucas Anderson
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Pie-makers at work in the theater kitchen. Photo: Lucas Anderson
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On display in the pie case. Photo: Lucas Anderson
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Pie-bound apples. Photo: Lucas Anderson
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A La Mode founder Chris Porter outside his newly brick-and-mortar enterprise. Photo: Lucas Anderson
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Porter adds finishing flourishes to a Mexican chocolate mousse pie. Photo: Lucas Anderson
The arrival of A la Mode Pies is the latest installment in what’s shaping up to be quite a year for openings on Phinney Ridge. Owner Chris Porter founded his pie business as an “online bakery” in October 2009. Last week he moved his operations out of the kitchen at Knee High Stocking Co. and will open the doors of his “little neighborhood pie café” Thursday at 7am.
Porter said he always planned to open a cafe. “I did it kind of backwards.”
The shop, located at 5821 Phinney Ave N, will serve all the pies currently listed on the website, as individual slices and whole pies. Porter is also bringing back the petite pies he used to sell, which is essentially a pie for two. He’ll serve espresso from Caffe Umbria and ice cream from Bluebird, which opened its own outpost last month less than a mile to the north.
“It’s A la Mode Pies, so you’ve got to have pretty good ice cream,” he says. Bluebird also created a signature flavor for A la Mode based on Porter’s tropically fruity Blue Hawaiian pie.
Pie-philes can also buy merchandise to aid in baking, consuming, serving or generally declaring one’s love for pie. Some time in the next year, Porter says he’s planning to expand into savory items, namely quiche.
It’s not terribly difficult to remember when the shop is open: 7 to 7 seven days a week. The space has just a handful of seats and a glassed-in kitchen where one can watch pastry chefs at work. Porter says he’ll continue the free delivery that helped him build his business, from 10 to 2 every day.
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Lunchtime Delivery
Weekend couch time just got a lot sweeter.
Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Feb 08, 2011 at 10:05AM
Now she comes to you. Parfait starts home delivery service.
Your move, Molly Moon.
Starting this weekend Parfait, Adria Shimada’s mobile ice cream operation, will begin accepting orders for home delivery on its website. The first pints will be delivered Tuesday, February 15.
It’s not quite as simple as ordering a pizza. You pick out your pints online, and they (the pints) arrive at your house between 6 and 9pm on the same day. There is a $5 delivery charge, however if you return the reusable delivery bag you receive a $5 gift certificate. Parfait ice cream costs $9 a pint, you have to order at least two pints.
Parfait will deliver to: Ballard, Belltown, Capitol Hill, Greenlake, Madrona, Magnolia, Queen Anne, and Wallingford.
And if you like a little pie with your local ice cream, you really need to check out The Piecycle.
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Openings
The take-out counter will serve salads, sandwiches, and make-at-home meals to the booming South Lake Union crowd.
Posted by: Christopher Werner on Aug 05, 2010 at 02:10PM
On the Fly is the take-out offshoot of Flying Fish, pictured here. Photo courtesy Flying Fish.
Hot diggity the lunch options around here just keep getting better and better.
Late next week keep an eye peeled for On the Fly, the grab-and-go Flying Fish offshoot. The lunch and dinner counter is stocking a variety of salads and sandwiches, price tags for both hovering below $7, says owner Christine Keff. Those dropping by later in the evening will find a more beefed-up menu also stocked with items you can prepare at home. (One example: crab cakes.) For the sweet teeth, there are cookies and pies—Keff sounded particularly stoked about the latter—as well as wines for $18 and under.
On the Fly will share the same kitchen as the recently relocated Fish, but that’s it—the two are of a separate set-up and address. When Keff first scouted her new South Lake Union digs, she was prodded to take over the entire space at 300 Westlake Avenue. A wide-eyed Keff first resisted, knowing it was too big for one restaurant, but then she was a offered “a deal I couldn’t pass up.” Et voilà, the idea for On the Fly took flight.
Right now hours are Mon-Sat 10-7, and there’s no need to call in orders ahead, you can just swing by. An online ordering system will be implemented soon, Keff said.
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What's for Lunch?
BOKA now delivers to downtown zip codes.
Posted by: Christopher Werner on May 03, 2010 at 02:20PM
To the downtowners left slighted when Monsoon launched an eastside-only lunch delivery service, know BOKA will bring food to you.
The restaurant situated inside Hotel 1000 now delivers weekdays 11am-2:30pm. Here’s the hitch: The offer’s only good if you’re located within a five-block radius of BOKA. If, however, your brown bag is really looking bleak, note take out is available to all.
Or there’s always Baguette Box.
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What's for Lunch?
Baguette Box boxes up banh mi, delivers to greater downtown.
Posted by: Christopher Werner on Apr 05, 2010 at 12:29PM
Hey, did you know Baguette Box delivers? While its upscale big brother Monsoon East livens up lunch for the eastside crowd, the Box brings gourmet banh mi to Capitol and First Hills, downtown, Fremont, and Westlake for free weekdays 11am-noon. (Want it later? You’ll have to shell out $10.)
The meals arrive in the form of a boxed sandwich or salad. Sandwiches—choose between hot and cold—come with a side salad and cost $9.95–$12.50, while salad sets are slightly cheaper at $9.95–$10.95; a banana cake with coconut sauce sweetens both meals. Sides (love those handcut truffle fries) are available as well, all of them under $5.
A couple things to note: an order must be $50 or consist of four box lunches. Call before 4pm if you want to place an order for the next day.
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What's for Lunch?
Work in Downtown Bellevue, Factoria or Kirkland? Start thinking about what you are having for lunch.
Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Mar 03, 2010 at 10:17AM
Boring lunch, you are now banned in Bellevue!
The midday repast just go a whole lot tastier for drones and denizens of the Eastside. Monsoon East is now delivering lunch to addresses in downtown Bellevue, Factoria, and Kirkland.
The service is free if you are okay with it arriving any time between 11am and noon or you can ask for a specific delivery time between 11am and 2pm and pay $10 for the privilege.
There are eight options, all priced between $12-$15. These include Monsoon’s amazing flank steak dish with meat from Painted Hills and a combo of grilled chickens, prawns, and la la lot beef that comes with (be still my hungry heart) a crispy imperial roll. Access order form here. All lunches include a banana bread dessert.
Here’s hoping Seattle’s Monsoon follows suit.
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