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Sweet Week Is Kinda Like Restaurant Week

But with more ice cream and less pandemonium.

Allecia Vermillion
Author: Allecia Vermillion
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Image via the Sweet Week website.

Awww, this is a great idea. Hot Cakes owner Autumn Martin marshalled dessert purveyors across the city to put on a sweets-focused event that resembles Restaurant Week in spirit, but presumably without all the crowds and chaos that can make this noble concept straight-up terrible.

Here’s the deal: From September 25 to 28, each place will sell a special $5 sampler—or kickass single item—made specifically for sweet week.

A score of local confectioners are taking part, including cookie emporium Hello, Robin, High 5 Pie, gluten-free and vegan Flying Apron, Dahlia Bakery, Parfait ice cream patisserie, Sweet Mickey’s candy shop, The Confectional, Mighty-O Donuts (also vegan!), Chocolopolis, Martin’s own Hot Cakes (duh), and her alma mater Theo Chocolate.

No specifics yet on what each place will serve—that info comes September 15 via a Sweet Week website. But I’m crossing my fingers Hot Cakes’s offering includes s’mores and am already excited to explore some broad and sugar-laden terrain in exchange for a relatively modest cash outlay. The takeaway nature of sweets does seem better suited to discount-seeking crowds than a sit-down dinner.

While we’re on the topic, here’s a quick look at some of our favorite new confectioners in town.

 

 




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Allecia Vermillion
Allecia Vermillion
Allecia Vermillion has spent a decade at Seattle Met, arriving as food and drink editor, and expanding her role over the years. She served as the magazine’s editor in chief until moving into a newly created executive editor role in 2021. She spearheads Seattle Met’s food and drink coverage and oversees home design content. Allecia’s writing has earned her multiple journalism awards and two James Beard Award nominations over the years. A native of Portland, Oregon, Allecia began her writing life as a newspaper reporter in the Chicago suburbs before making a grateful return to the Pacific Northwest. She has an English degree from Washington University (no, the one in St. Louis) and a masters in journalism from Northwestern University. She lives in Seattle with her husband and two children.