Friday Feed
Yoka Tea Is Pouring, De La Soil Is Cooking, and the Wayland Mill Is Baking
The matcha café wave is on its way.
Image: Jane Sherman
Hungry for news? Welcome to our Friday Feed, where we run through all the local food and restaurant news this week—and maybe help you figure out where to eat this weekend.
New in the North
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Dirt candy: On Monday, long-running farm-to-table pop-up De La Soil officially opens its permanent location inside Copperworks Kenmore. Chefs Cody and Andrea Westerfield, both of whom worked at Lecosho and Serafina, focus on showcasing seasonal produce from nearby partner Tuk Muk Farm, with dishes like beef fat baby carrots and bone-in Idaho trout with chimichurri mayonnaise and new potatoes.
De La Soil, opening in Kenmore, showcases produce from nearby Tuk Muk Farm. - South to north: Junior Kuppanna will soon serve Bothell the cuisine of India’s southernmost state. Puget Sound Business Journal reports that the Indian restaurant chain specializing in the cuisine of Tamil Nadu has been making over the former location of the Rock Wood Fired Pizza and plans to open in September. This is the chain’s first US location.
Softly Open
- Ovens on: The Wayland Mill is now serving those tempting baked goods we told you about last week, coffee, and tea. The full kitchen menu is still in progress and hours are abbreviated, but still: peanut butter shoyu icebox pie.
- More matcha: Consider this an ongoing series, as the grand wave of matcha cafés begins to sweep over us. This week’s opening is popular pop-up Yoka Tea, which serves creative boba, croffles, coffee, and matcha in Madrona.
Next Up
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Pie to pie: The ovens at the Ballard location of Pie Bar will warm once again, starting July 1, when farmers-market stalwart Pie Bird Bakeshop will open in the space, reports My Ballard.
Restaurateur Heong Soon Park will take over the former Taku space on Capitol Hill.Image: David Jaewon Oh
- Expanding a Korean empire: Restaurateur Heong Soon Park is again expanding his empire, this time adding a third Korean spot to the collection. Capitol Hill Seattle covers Park’s plans to open Gol Mok Korean Market-Bar in the former Taku space on Capitol Hill. Park also has Meet Korean BBQ and the Cheese Room nearby, as well as Chan Seattle and Bacco downtown, and West Seattle’s Luna Park Café and the Shack.
Oh, BTW, here’s what you missed last week.
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