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.

What’s Brewing

• Roaring again: Bellingham’s Aslan Brewing opened its second Seattle location in the space that was briefly Darkalino’s in Tangletown. Unlike the Fremont Aslan, this one is all-ages and has its own kitchen, serving a seafood-y upscale pub menu with Old Bay shrimp cocktail, fish and chips, and crispy dill fries.
• New beings: In Roosevelt, Human People Beer opened its beer café, an all-day concept with an all-star cast: Seawolf pastries in the morning, sandwiches from Ben’s Bread, and, of course, its own beer. Human People, which has been brewing—literally and figuratively—for a year, comes from a trio of industry veterans that includes two brewers from San Diego’s Modern Times.
• Kicked: Eight years after it opened, Redhook will close its Capitol Hill Brewlab, reports Puget Sound Business Journal. Two years ago, the storied Seattle brewery was sold from Anheuser-Busch to Tilray, which also owns cannabis brands and other beer brands, including 10 Barrel and Hop Valley.

Flipping Out

• Record scratch: As part of its 25^th-anniversary celebration, MOPOP replaced its café with what it described as a daring new act: The Lounge. The menu does have some items that seem to push beyond the standard tourist fare, like spruce tip and rose mignonette for the oysters. But maybe they mean daring as in reckless, like their use of the outdated name for lime leaves.
• Trompo no mo’: The couple behind popular pop-up Tacos Extranjeros announced that it will be ramping down its al pastor production at Fair Isle Brewing as it takes over the brewery’s kitchen permanently. The transplants arrived a year ago declaring “A vision of bringing true Tijuana style tacos to the city of Seattle,” but seem to have learned the reasons nobody was making them here—and it wasn’t that the city needed the dish Californi-splained. “As of now, in its current state, Tacos Extranjeros cannot continue in a full-time capacity,” the couple posted this week. They plan to keep making the tacos one day a week, while focusing on La Marea, their PNW seafood meets Mexican marisqueria concept.
• Quick switch: Last Friday, Belltown izakaya Shinya Shokudo announced its closing, though the restaurant’s Tukwila and Redmond siblings will remain open. Almost immediately, it was replaced by Manzoku Izakaya, which is keeping the menu, staff, and, well, pretty much everything exactly the same—to the extent that they forgot to remove Shinya’s other locations when they changed the website.
• Stand up: Bean Espresso has taken over the longtime Vivace sidewalk stand on Broadway, reports Capitol Hill Seattle. Since Vivace ended its three-decade run in the iconic walk-up espresso counter in 2023, it was briefly in the hands of Fuel, but most recently sat empty.

Another Scoop

• Westward ho: Molly Moon just opened its downtown scoop shop, and now there’s another one, this time taking over the former Cupcake Royale space in the West Seattle Junction. The new shop opens on June 21, and, much to the delight of the neighborhood, it plans to keep the cones coming until 11pm, seven days a week.

Oh, BTW, here’s what you missed last week.