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Free food at Melrose Market, movie nights at High 5 Pie, and Belle Clementine’s communal feasting kickoff.

Posted by: Brian Colella on Dec 12, 2011 at 10:30AM 0 Comments

Sitka and Spruce and its Melrose Market neighbors are handing out free samples on Sunday.

MONDAY December 12

High 5 Pie on Capitol Hill serves up movie nights on Monday evenings from 7 to 10. Catch holiday classics such as It’s a Wonderful Life and of course grab a holiday pie; special flavors this season include pumpkin, sweet potato, cranberry walnut, and caramel pecan.

THURSDAY December 15

David Sanford’s Belle Clementine is opening its feast series this week. The communal dining restaurant will serve a seasonally determined menu on the 15th, 16th and 17th this week, plus additional dates in the future. Reservations can be made via the restaurant’s website or by phone at 206-257-5761.

SATURDAY December 17

Kathy Casey Food Studios is holding an all-day extravaganza and open house from 11 to 7. Casey will be there with special guest Keren Brown; both ladies will be signing copies of their books. There’ll also be cooking demos, samples cooked up by the Food Studios team, and of course holiday treats and gifts for your loved ones.

SUNDAY December 18

Got hungry kids? Take ’em to Book Larder from 10 to noon to learn how to make cupcakes, cake pops, and more with CakeSpy Jessie Oleson. Tickets are $25 per person and the class is open to kids ages 5 to 9.

Capitol Hill Seattle blog says that the shops at Melrose Market are giving out food samples from 2 to 6. Cheese shop Calf and Kid will be sharing tastes of cheese, Rain Shadow Meats will offer ham, grab some bread from Sitka and Spruce and, conveniently, some jam from Marigold and Mint. Homegrown will hand out soda. Butter Home will offer shoppers a discount since, contrary to its name, it sells no actual food.

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Tags: Melrose Market, Kathy Casey, Seattle Food Events, Book Larder, Belle Clementine, Sitka and Spruce

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

Melrose Market’s New Tenant: Taylor Shellfish Farms

The Capitol Hill food mecca is about to get even tastier.

Posted by: Christopher Werner on Jan 05, 2011 at 09:27AM 0 Comments

The Melrose Market, about to get tastier: Taylor Shellfish Farms is due to open here.

If sad face set in upon learning clothing boutique Velouria is vacating Melrose Market, here’s the silver lining: Nancy Leson reports that Taylor Shellfish Farms will assume the space and open a retail outlet.

The shucker, which harvests bivalves from eight farms dotting Puget Sound, will fit in nicely at the Capitol Hill foodie temple, already home to notable purveyors Calf and Kid, Sitka and Spruce, Rain Shadow Meats, and Homegrown.

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Tags: Seattle Restaurant Openings, Capitol Hill, Oysters, Melrose Market

Homegrown’s Halloween Costume Contest

You’ll have to get creative, because we guarantee you don’t have this costume lying around your basement.

Posted by: Kathryn Robinson on Oct 27, 2010 at 09:00AM 0 Comments

What would you do for this sandwich?

We know how much you love Homegrown, that land of all-natural, insanely tasty sandwiches served in sustainable packaging in two locations—-Melrose Market and Fremont—-with another opening next month on Queen Anne.

Well do you love it this much? Because the Homegrown gents just wrote to inform us that on Halloween this Sunday, anyone who comes into Homegrown dressed as the Earl of Sandwich or the Count of Monte Cristo gets his/her sandwich free and is entered into their Earl of the Year contest.

And what is the Earl of the Year contest, you ask? It’s the contest that awards the most creative and most unique costumes with homegrown gift cards and free tee-shirts and totes.

We are talking powdered wigs and coats that have tails, people. On the other hand…we are talking spicy jalapeno meatloaf sandwiches made with organic chuck, whole milk cheddar, Zoe’s bacon, horseradish Dijon, hazelnut Romesco, and mixed greens on whole-grain. Man we love this joint.

Where’s that powdered wig again?

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Tags: Fremont, Queen Anne, Sandwiches, Melrose Market, Homegrown

The Sitka and Spruce Reboot

How is the restaurant settling into its new Melrose Market digs? Seattle Met’s critic finds out.

Posted by: Christopher Werner on Sep 27, 2010 at 02:59PM 0 Comments

Photo: Lindsay Borden

Sitka and Spruce at Melrose Market.

One of the more anticipated restaurant debuts of the year, Sitka and Spruce in Melrose Market has packed in Matthew Dillon disciples since service started at the end of May.

As Kathryn Robinson points out in her new review, the restaurant’s polished and sparkly surrounds are quite a contrast from the wee Eastlake storefront where Dillon first launched S & S four years ago. There, Robinson makes note, she encountered “one of the finest forkfuls I have tasted.”

Does Robinson find the same slack-jawing fare at Sitka 2.0? Read the review and find out.

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Tags: New Seattle Restaurants, Capitol Hill, Restaurant Reviews, Melrose Market

Melrose Market Street Festival or Urban Picnic?

How about both?

Posted by: Christopher Werner on Sep 09, 2010 at 03:38PM 0 Comments

Pig out at Seattle Chefs Collaborative’s Urban Picnic and the Melrose Market Street Festival and you’ll feel the same way: happily stuffed.

Listen up, nosh nerds: This weekend you’ve got two big events happening the same day. Here’s how you’re going to hit up both.

The Melrose Market Street Festival starts at 10am and holds court until 8pm, which really simplifies matters. You’ll have lunch at Seattle Chefs Collaborative’s annual Urban Picnic, and dinner at Melrose.

Picnic is packing in the big names, so make this your main repast of the day. There at the Rainier Square Rooftop Courtyard you’ll find the likes of Lark ’s John Sundstrom, Seth Caswell of Emmer & Rye, Rachel Yang of Joule, Ethan Stowell, and Canlis ’s Jason Franey.

The picnic is held noon-4pm; take your time sampling the fare. Each chef is using ingredients per Renewing America’s Food Traditions’s list of endangered viands—needless to say, these won’t be your everyday eatables.

When you make your way up the Hill, raise a glass in the beer garden. Like the SCC shindig, which boosts the Quillisascut Farm School scholarship fund, beer bucks will benefit a local mainstay: Seattle Tilth. Then raise a glass to grillmaster Matthew Dillon. The Sitka and Spruce guy is putting on what’s sure to be a delicious BBQ spread. He’s cooking till the goods are gone (organizers guesstimate that’ll be around 5pm), but in case you miss out know the rest of the market’s gastro gang are shilling, as will the Molly Moon ice cream truck.

Tickets for Urban Picnic are $60 (a drop from last year ’s $99 price tag) and can be obtained via Brown Paper Tickets.

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Tags: Capitol Hill, Food Events and Festivals, Melrose Market

Taste of the Town: Katherine Anderson

Between jaunts to her Snoqualmie farm, the Marigold and Mint owner fills us in on her favorite foods.

Posted by: Judy Naegeli on Sep 02, 2010 at 09:27AM 0 Comments

Marigold and Mint’s Katherine Anderson.

When she’s not running the show at her newly minted shop Marigold and Mint, you can find Katherine Anderson at her other outpost: a several-acre farm on the Snoqualmie River. There she harvests the seasonal organic goods—herbs, produce, and flowers—that line the Melrose Market boutique.

While checking out the Melrose Market Street Festival, swing in to stop and smell the New Dawn roses—summer’s their season.

Vita, Stumptown, or Starbucks? Stumptown.

Favorite way to burn calories: Running as fast as I can.

Where do you take out-of-town guests to eat? Sitka and Spruce.

Do you use recipes or wing it? Recipes. My favorite cookbook is At Home in Provence by Patricia Wells.

What’s your guilty food pleasure? Ice cream at Tilt on Rainier Avenue.

Are you or have you ever been a vegan? Only for a week here or there.

What’s your desert-island condiment? Pepperoncini.

Dessert or appetizer? Appetizer.

Three restaurants that sum up Seattle: Spinasse, Canlis, and Dick’s.

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Tags: Capitol Hill, Food Finds, Taste of the Town, Melrose Market

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

Another Melrose Market Opening to Report: Matthew Dillon’s Bar Ferd’nand

Two openings in two days for the Capitol Hill food center.

Posted by: Christopher Werner on Jul 13, 2010 at 12:04PM 1 Comments

Matthew Dillon, whose Bar Ferd’nand is now open in the Capitol Hill food hub Melrose Market.

Just one day after Homegrown officially set up shop comes another Melrose Market debut: Bar Ferd’nand opens tonight at 6pm.

In April Nosh Pit first surfaced the news Matthew Dillon, he of the Corson Building and the newly relocated Sitka and Spruce (situated a hop and a skip from Ferd’nand) would be pairing with Corson Building sommelier Marc Papineau and friend Jared Baily to launch the wine and snack bar.

Surely it will make a great waiting spot for those who fail to reserve at S & S.

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Tags: New Seattle Restaurants, Seattle Restaurant Openings, Capitol Hill, Melrose Market

Capitol Hill Homegrown Opens

Late-night menu, dinner service to follow in coming months.

Posted by: Christopher Werner on Jul 12, 2010 at 09:23AM 0 Comments

The menu at the Capitol Hill branch of Homegrown, located in the Melrose Market.

After nearly a month of delays, the Melrose Market location of Homegrown, the second for the sustainable sandwich shop, is open as of Monday, July 12.

Right now the hours are set for 8am-4pm. Co-owner Ben Friedman expects the weekend late-night menu and dinner service will be offered by the end of summer.

With Baguette Box just around the corner, the opening has me wondering: Which will become the sandwich spot of choice for lower Pike/Pine denizens?

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Tags: Seattle Restaurant Openings, Capitol Hill, Sandwiches, Melrose Market

More Delays for Homegrown in the Melrose Market

Plus: Terra Plata is a go.

Posted by: Christopher Werner on Jun 30, 2010 at 08:40AM 0 Comments

Coming soon and sooner: Terra Plata and Homegrown.

This week’s Melrose Market update: Cap Hillers will have to wait awhile longer to get their hands on Homegrown grub. The sandwich shop originally was shooting for a June 22 opening, and then for later that week. Now, writes co-owner Ben Friedman via email, “We seem to have hit another construction/permitting delay… this week is not looking too promising.”

In other M-squared news, CHS reports Tamara Murphy’s Terra Plata will in fact keep its lease after a contentious, very public legal battle. Murphy, of the erstwhile Brasa, took the market’s developers to court over an alleged “material defect” in the restaurant space. CHS has the story.

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Tags: Seattle Restaurant Openings, Capitol Hill, Melrose Market

Speed Bumps for Homegrown

The sandwich shop pushes back Melrose Market opening.

Posted by: Christopher Werner on Jun 21, 2010 at 09:50AM 0 Comments

Now that Sitka and Spruce is up and running, construction in the marketplace anchoring the Melrose development is nearly complete. Just two more food hubs —Homegrown and Bar Ferd’nand —and the gastronome stomping ground is good to go.

Last time I checked in with Homegrown’s Ben Friedman, he was hoping the sandwich counter would open Tuesday, June 22. This morning he sends word that that date has been pushed back. Now the goal is to kick off business between Thursday and Monday.

Getting excited about that late-night menu…

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Tags: Seattle Restaurant Openings, Capitol Hill, Sandwiches, Melrose Market