Nosh Pit

Pinky’s Kitchen Goes Late Night

Now available for midnight consumption: crispy mac and cheese, rib sandwiches, and sliders of all stripes.

Posted by: Christopher Werner on Nov 17, 2011 at 01:42PM 1 Comments

Bet this tastes good at 2am. Photo courtesy Pinky’s Kitchen.

When Pinky’s Kitchen debuted in Wallingford last week, co-owner Andrew Bray assured bar goers late-night hours were on the way. Now he’s making good on that promise.

Bray says the barbecue truck at 210 NE 45th Street is slinging Fridays and Saturdays until 2:30am. The entire comfort food menu is on offer.

With Dick’s Drive-In and Rancho Bravo a stone’s throw away, Bray christens the stretch of street the “midnight triangle” of late-night noshing. Nom nom nom.

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Tags: Street Food, Late-Night Grub, Seattle Food Trucks

Eltana Nixes Late-Night Window

Bar time bagels get 86’ed.

Posted by: Christopher Werner on Oct 31, 2011 at 02:27PM 0 Comments

No more of this at 2am.

Capitol Hill, land of copious restaurant and bar action, is not surprisingly a playground for late-night eaters. But one of the more recent options for midnight munching is bowing out—for now, at least.

Manager and co-owner Daniel Levin says Eltana is shelving its Thursday through Saturday bar time hours until warmer weather returns. “We had a decent crowd,” he acknowledges, but still the bagel shop opted to phase out the schedule a week ago. “We’ll try it again.”

Starting in mid-July the bakery served a limited selection of bagels and spreads from a side window until 2:30 am. That side window is still staying open after Eltana closes at 4pm, but don’t get your beer-goggled hopes up: the offerings are usually dunzo by 6pm, according to Levin.

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Tags: Late-Night Grub, Bagels

Eltana’s Late-Night Window Is Now Open

Midnight munchies? The Capitol Hill bagel shop has you covered. Covered in fava bean mint dip. Or fig-apricot compote. Or almond butter. Or caramelized onion hummus. Or…you get the picture.

Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Jul 26, 2011 at 06:00AM 0 Comments

Eat these at 2am if you want. Eltana’s late-night window is open.

Photo: Eltana via Facebook.

Capitol Hill smells like pot. That’s because a lot of people smoke marijuana there. And I can’t imagine these marijuana smokers—not to mention their boozy friends who attack the Pike/Pine bars every weekend—are going to be unhappy about the latest late-night face-stuffing opportunity to open up in the hood. (See a list of other such opportunities here.)

This one is brought to us by Eltana, the place with the wicked tasty, super-skinny bagels and the giant crossword puzzle on the wall.

The late-night window, which debuted last weekend during the Capitol Hill Block Party, will be open Thursday through Saturday from 10pm to 2:30am. The menu is composed of bagels, dips, and spreads. The bagels (plain, poppy, everything, sesame, salt) are a buck each. The fixings come in four-ounce servings and cost between $2 and $4. Choose from four kinds of cream cheese, a fig-apricot compote, almond butter, caramelized onion hummus, and these dips: red pepper and walnut, fava bean mint, and eggplant pomegranate.

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Tags: Capitol Hill, Late-Night Grub, Bagels

Lucky Diner to Stay Open Round the Clock on Weekends

The all-the-time eats begin August 7.

Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Jul 22, 2011 at 07:15AM 0 Comments

The Lucky Diner, soon to serve round the clock on weekends.

Photo: The Lucky Diner via Facebook

In other cities, this wouldn’t be big news.

But Seattle has had, historically, such a dearth of places to eat in the wee hours. That’s changing though, with a crop of late-night options popping up on Capitol Hill. And now, from Belltown, another bit of auspiciousness for those of us who like to dine in the off-hours: As promised, the Lucky Diner will stay open 24 hours from Friday through Sunday. This starts August 7, per a company press release.

The concept at Lucky is modern diner: classic diner fare like omelets and patty melts but with some higher-end flourishes. Smoked salmon and corn chowder, for instance, is not something you’d see (or care to see) on the menu at Denny’s. There is also a fit menu, a kids menu, and a bunch of vegetarian and gluten-free options. The Lucky Diner is owned and cheffed by Justin Mevs.

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Tags: New Seattle Restaurants, Breakfast, Late-Night Grub, Late Night, Diners, Seattle Restaurants

A Surge in Late-Night Food on Capitol Hill

There’s a whole new pack pulling the night shift.

Posted by: Christopher Werner on Jul 19, 2011 at 09:19AM 3 Comments

Pike Street Fish Fry, a late-night staple on Capitol Hill. Photo by Nick Feldman.

UPDATE 8/23: Li’l Woody’s late-night weekend hours are coming soon.

Seattle is notoriously bereft of late-night eats, but if any neighborhood is out to change that it’s Capitol Hill.

For years the Hill boasted a handful of weekend standbys—notably Dick’s, Tacos Gringos, Hot Mama’s, and Pike Street Fish Fry —but then arrived Rancho Bravo and Big Mario’s, and last fall, Homegrown in the Melrose Market and Glo’s pitched postparty menus.

Now comes another rev up, the grub more diverse than ever.

Mexican hot spot Poquitos and Jason Stratton’s Artusi keep their kitchens cooking until 1am. Eltana bakery has announced plans to launch a late-night window, and Skillet Diner has a till-2 happy hour in the works. Several blocks down 12th Avenue Ba Bar noodle shop (technically in the Central District) ups the ante with a 4am lights out. And when it opens later this month, Li’l Woody’s says burgers and shakes can be had up to 3am.

It should be interesting to see how that last guy fares. Homegrown, situated around the corner from Woody’s, pulled its late-night program in January (sadly taking its deep-fried Bluffernutter with it). “It’s mainly a location thing. When it’s this cold out, not as many people are down to walk as far for some steak frites and catfish hushpuppies,” co-owner Ben Friedman said at the time. He hinted the hours could return come summer, but are they?

Nah. “I don’t think it’s going to happen, as much as we love those recipes. We just weren’t trafficked enough at that time on that part of the Hill,” Friedman explained last week.

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Tags: Capitol Hill, Late-Night Grub

For Your Weekend Consideration: A Late-Night Bite at Belltown’s Dope Burger

The new burger joint serves until 1:30am.

Posted by: Christopher Werner on Jan 14, 2011 at 01:55PM 0 Comments

The interior of Dope Burger in Belltown. Photo courtesy Dope Burger.

RIP Noodle Ranch, your marinated curry catfish will be missed, but let’s admit it’s nice to see a fresh face perk up that scruffy block of Second Avenue in Belltown.

Noodle’s big guns pulled a switcheroo shortly after the New Year, transforming the erstwhile pan-Asian favorite at 2228 2nd Ave into Dope Burger, which debuted about a week ago.

Among its notable qualities—the number of specialty burgers, avocado fries, under-$8 price tags—is the fact that Dope flips patties into the early AM. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, the shack stays open until 1:30, and employees tell us the entire menu is available till it’s lights out.

That means you have the option of a “Dope Burger”—your traditional cheese-tomato-lettuce quarter-pounders, with the occasional splash of specialty sauce—or, for the more fervent eater, a beefier, gussied-up “Especially Dope Burger.” Vegetarian blottos, note the “Sloppy Jane,” a vegan patty with beets, yams, red rice, Swiss cheese, avocado, and dill cream, or the “Super Mario,” a mushroom cap breaded, fried, and filled.

And while you’re in the neighborhood, why not check out other favorite late-night hangouts.

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Tags: New Seattle Restaurants, Seattle Restaurant Openings, Belltown, Late-Night Grub, Burgers

Homegrown Nixes Late-Night Hours at Capitol Hill Store

Last chance to soak up some fun at the sandwich shop, chums.

Posted by: Christopher Werner on Jan 07, 2011 at 09:45AM 0 Comments

No more of this at 2am: Homegrown on Capitol Hill ditches late-night hours. Photo courtesy the establishment.

UPDATE 1/7 at 3pm Of the change in hours, co-owner Ben Friedman says: “It’s mainly a location thing—when it’s this cold out, not as many people are down to walk as far for some steak frites and catfish hushpuppies…”

Bummer news, boozers. Homegrown on Capitol Hill is nixing Friday and Saturday late-night hours. This is the last weekend the Melrose Market shop will cater to night owls and stay open until 3am, but according to a Facebook post, the powers that be “might bring it back in the summertime.”

What gives? I’ve got a message in with co-owner Ben Friedman and will let you know when I hear back.

More importantly, does this spell the end of the deep-fried Bluffernutter?

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Tags: Capitol Hill, Sandwiches, Melrose Market, Late-Night Grub, Homegrown

Glo’s on Capitol Hill Goes Late Night

After plans for a second restaurant fall through, owners of the iconic diner opt for new weekend hours.

Posted by: Christopher Werner on Aug 30, 2010 at 11:32AM 0 Comments

Capitol Hill scores another late-night destination: Glo’s.

More proof Capitol Hill is taking the cake when it comes to late-night grubbing. This weekend, Glo’s is set to cater to the buzzed barhop crowd.

Starting September 3, and every Friday and Saturday thereafter, the Olive Way diner is shifting its weekend hours to midnight-4pm. (Yup, PM. Take that, Night Kitchen.) Early AM eaters can expect the same menu they’d find during normal-people hours, says Julie Reisman, one of three owners, but shouldn’t come looking for boozy breakfast bevs. Reisman did note she’s hoping to eventually take the new hours seven days a week. If that happens, the Glo’s management will likely apply for a liquor license.

The idea to go late-night came when plans for opening a second location fell through, Reisman said. Hopes for another diner fizzled when it became apparent the capital needed to purchase and subsequently use the Glo’s name just wasn’t there, she elaborated.

The nano-sized eater’s icon—long considered home to the best eggs benny in town—tried to go late-night 20 years ago but hasn’t since adopted night-owl hours.

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Tags: Capitol Hill, Brunch, Late-Night Grub, Late Night

New Hours for Homegrown

Including—bonus!—a late-night weekend menu.

Posted by: Christopher Werner on Aug 09, 2010 at 10:38AM 0 Comments

Homegrown in Melrose Market is introducing a late-night menu.

The bad news: The Fremont Homegrown is nixing the weekend dinner hours it initiated in May.

The good news: Come Monday, August 16 the sandwich shop’s Melrose Market location will take them on daily, giving Cap Hill–goers until 8pm to get their Bluffernutter fix.

The even better news: Also debuting next week is Homegrown’s late-night menu, which means on Friday and Saturday relish in round two of Bluffernutter-ing (maybe with a side of catfish hushpuppies?) as late as 3am.

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Tags: Capitol Hill, Sandwiches, Melrose Market, Late-Night Grub, Late Night

Big Mario’s Opens on Capitol Hill

The new Pike Street pizzeria is open real late. Cheers to that.

Posted by: Christopher Werner on Jul 15, 2010 at 08:54AM 0 Comments

An interior shot of Big Mario’s on Pike Street.

Hot Mama’s has long been the turf for late-night pizza noshing in Capitol Hill, but now there’s a new place for Hilligans to get their fix.

Big Mario’s, located in the once dungeon-like space sandwiched between Bimbo’s and Caffe Vita on Pike, is now slinging slices and 18-inch pies seven days a week. The New York–style pizzeria is open until 2am Sunday through Wednesday, and until 4am the rest of the nights. Other perks: A full bar and a takeaway window.

Hello beer munchies.

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Tags: Seattle Restaurant Openings, Capitol Hill, Pizza, Late-Night Grub, Late Night