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.

Health Nuts

While Seattle tends toward the athletic and outdoorsy, the city has mostly left the sprouted grain bowls and woo-woo wellness smoothies to Los Angeles. But a new glut of health-focused restaurants, each with its own two-word slogan, seems to be changing that. 

• “Purpose driven”: Two Mercer Island businesses have merged with Conscious Hospitality Group (the guys behind Just Poké, Mount Joy, and others), taking over Lisa Nordstrom’s Sano. The café will serve smoothies, protein-focused snacks and meals, and cold-pressed juices. The plan is to open a Bellevue location this week, with two more opening in July, in Redmond and Kirkland.
• “Performance based”: A location of smoothie and acai bowl chain Pure Green opens this weekend in South Lake Union.
• “Farm fresh”: DD’s House, which has been selling at local farmers markets, is bringing its juices, acai bowls, and wellness shots to South Lake Union’s Fairview Market Hall starting Monday.

Matcha Watcha

• Big flavor, Little Saigon: The corner of 12^th and Jackson got a new tenant, with La Kà SàiGòn Bites and Drinks moving in. The street food and desserts specialist serves classics like broken rice and banh mi, as well as a slew of smoothies and desserts, including grilled corn cheese coffee and, of course, matcha—in mango latte and avocado smoothie form.
• Up next: Then, it’s Lower Queen Anne’s turn to get its own shiny new matcha café. TruLe Yours Cafe announced it will be opening this fall near Aurora and Roy.

Downtown Coming Up

• Harbor brew: Ballard stalwart Reuben’s Brews opened its new downtown taproom this week with 28 taps, including hard seltzer, which they are turning into hard seltzer cocktails.
• Can you see the Golden Gate? The Kimpton Hotel Monaco recently completed a big remodel, which included a new restaurant called Marin. The food is described as “global coastal,” which, perhaps, explains why they gave it a name most associated with a place many hundreds of miles south.
• Take two: PCC Community Markets announced the opening date for its return to downtown. On July 15, in a section of its once much larger downtown store, it will launch its new, smaller PCC Corner Market format with a focus on grab-and-go and basics.

Big News in Ballard

• Hear it roar: One of the year’s most anticipated restaurant openings is almost upon us. Little Beast, the English pub from the meat-heads over at Beast & Cleaver, starts its reservations-only soft opening next Thursday—keep an eye on Tock to snag one. They’ve been teasing dishes on social media, including Sunday roast, summer pudding, scotched egg, and meat pies.
• Hear it splash: Seafood and More, a seafood market from the Lummi Island Wild folks, opened this week on Leary near Market Street. The company specializes in local reefnet fished salmon, but also sources from around the region. The shop will sell the company’s frozen seafood, meal kits, and some pantry items.
• Familiar roads: Schooner Street Bar, from the former Stepping Stone proprietor, opened last week in the space that was most recently Pour Decisions on 80th.

Softly Open on Capitol Hill

• Seoul food: Heong Soon Park, the man behind Cheese Room, Meet Korean BBQ, and Chan, among others, has taken over the former Taku spot and will softly open Gol Mok Korean Market Bar this weekend. It will specialize in a street food called bunsik—think rice cakes, pancakes, tempura, and noodles—viewed through a nostalgic lens.
• Naan stop: With a beautiful new makeover, the one-time Kedai Makan space, more recently Jilted Siren, returned to life last week as Aamrai. The menu features a huge variety of Indian dishes, most intriguingly Maharashtrian Railway goat curry, regional specialties like saoji chicken rassa, and a burrata chaat.

Farther Afield

• We all scream: More ice cream on its way, this time to Redmond. Portland’s Salt & Straw, which already has stores in Capitol Hill and Ballard, with two more to come to Queen Anne and near Pike Place Market, will open the Eastside shop on July 5—the start of summer in Seattle, naturally.
• More meat: Local mini-chain Jack’s BBQ continues its steady expansion, this time announcing a Federal Way location, expected to arrive in August.
• Here’s the Dilli, yo: The “unapologetically Desi” restaurant Dilli 6 opened in Kirkland for reservation-only dining this week, with a focus on Delhi-style chaat.

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