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Openings: Wanderfish poke, Dueminuti on Broadway, Squirrel Chops in the CD

This is a good week for knocking off the roster entries on our list of food and drink openings still to come on and around Capitol Hill in 2016. Monday started with the first look inside the new Harry’s Fine Foods at Bellevue and Mercer. The week ends with a handful of other new joints to check out.

  • Squirrel Chops: The Central District salon + cafe concept in 23rd and Union’s new The Central building will celebrate its grand opening Sunday with coffee samples and snacks. CHS stopped by the corner Squirrel Chops calls home at 22nd and Union before summer started to talk with Shirley Henderson, a barista who runs the cafe side of the business, and hair master Sharon Blyth-Moss who runs the two-chair salon side of things. “We’re all about community and building community, and I thought why don’t we just do a place that does that. We wanted to start making that our business instead of our hobbies and pastime,” Henderson told us this spring. Squirrel Chops neighbors electric bike concern and 20/20 Cycle sibling Electric Lady. The building will also eventually be home to a new restaurant project on 23rd Ave. More on that… soon!
  • Wanderfish: Capitol Hill’s first dedicated poke provider opened last week with its quest to present a sustainable and chef driven spin on the trendy fresh fish bowls. “Seattle is very passionate about its salmon,” Wanderfish partner Tim Lee told CHS when we talked to him about his plans for taking over the space formerly home to a fro yo shop.
  • Dueminuti: The other new Broadway opening is also high on concept. Forged by an entrepreneurial partnership between a nuclear scientist turned chef and an MBA, the “healthy pasta” play is the first of what the duo hopes is many in their mission to create a Chipotle-like Italian venture. “We’re a vision company. We do believe that this has to be the prototype and we do want to grow in the Seattle area,” chef Filippo Fiori told CHS in August. With an “herb wall” in place in the space formerly home to Samurai Noodle and after some test meals with “local influencers who are bloggers and photographers,” “healthy pasta comes to Cap Hill” starting Saturday.
  • Non-human food update: Pet supply store Mud Bay is moving onto Broadway. Already with one store on the main strip between Pike and Pine, the regional chain’s Thomas “off Broadway” location is moving around the corner next to fashion shop Revival. Dogs and cats gotta eat, too.

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Eli
Eli
7 years ago

Personally, I think Wanderfish is awesome – ate there twice in their first 48 hours alone: https://www.yelp.com/biz/wanderfish-poke-seattle

Hope that Dueminuti lives up to the same standards.