BALLARD
This week Maria Hines’s restaurant Golden Beetle introduced family style dinners, served nights Thursday–Sunday. The $29-a-person dinner requires at least two diners to share the communal plates.

BELLEVUE
Goldbergs’ Famous Delicatessen is celebrating Hanukkah by offering a free latke with any dinner entree ordered after 5. The potato pancake, a traditional Hanukkah food, will be gratis with dinner for the month of December.

CAPITOL HILL
The Cal Anderson Ice Rink, one of our reasons to love winter in Seattle, opened this week with coffee, cocoa, hot dogs, and roasted sunflower seeds thanks to Caffe Vita, Dante’s Inferno Dogs, and Cure. The $1 for a bag of sunflower seeds goes to Peace for the Streets.

If you’ve been seeking new burger frontiers, you’re in luck. Marjorie has introduced the True Burger, a 10-patties-a-night special creation of owner Donna Moodie and chef Paul Hyman.

MULTIPLE LOCATIONS
Cold temperatures mean oysters, and Allecia Vermillion did the legwork to put together a guide to oyster happy hours in Seattle. You can find oysters for as low as 50 cents each, or, you can go big with the Walrus and Carpenter oyster picnic.