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Sorry, kids, no more Menchie’s fro yo on Broadway — But Timeless Tea is coming

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(Image: Timeless Tea)

There will be a hole in a block of retail space in Capitol Hill’s Joule mixed-use development with the planned closure of another business. But there are also plans in the works for a new addition bringing bubble tea and crepe cakes to Broadway.

Following our report on the exit of longtime prepared meals tenant Eat Local from the block as its parent company transitions to a fully online business model, word has spread of another planned closure sure to bum a few Broadway kids out.

The Capitol Hill location of the pay by the ounce Menchie’s Frozen Yogurt chain will mark its final day of business on Sunday. A sign went up with details of the sad announcement this week.

The frozen treat shop debuted in a sunnier 2012 and its initial ten-year lease has apparently run its course. Fans of the franchise are also dealing with the shift in the University Village location to a new locally-owned fro yo business called Chill. Continue reading →

Batch Baking Company and its nostalgia-filled Squareos now open on 12th Ave

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With batches of fresh from the oven, nostalgia-inspired caramel chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter brownie, palmiers, and Oreo-style Squareos, Batch Baking Company is now open on 12th Ave.

Business partners and co-bakers Scot Partlow and Jared Watson called Batch a “dessert focused, small batch” bakery paying “special attention to cookies” with “a bit of a nostalgic bent to it” when CHS talked to them about the new project last fall. Continue reading →

CHS Pics | The Cookie Counter brings pink walls and sweet vegan treats to E Pike’s Gay City

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Need an E Pike vegan treat? The Cookie Counter is now open on Capitol Hill inside Gay City.

CHS reported in June on the new partnership at the LGBTQ nonprofit’s headquarters that brings the Greenwood-born dessert shop and café for vegan pastries, cookies and ice cream to the 500 block of E Pike. “To be in that space will be nostalgic for us,” Chelsea Keene, who co-founded The Cookie Counter with her husband Chris Olson, told CHS in June. “When Chris and I lived on the hill, the previous Kaladi Brothers Coffee space at Gay City was our favorite coffee shop.”

You can now find Kaladi Brothers down the street where it has returned to its overhauled original Capitol Hill home.

Meanwhile, there has been plenty of Capitol Hill-area cookie news. 19th Ave E’s Hello Robin announced expansion plans in University Village and Lowrider Baking joined the food and drink scene developing around 23rd and Union’s new construction. Continue reading →

Now open on Pike/Pine’s midway of treats: Cinnaholic

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Cinnamon rolls have joined Seattle Dogs, cupcakes, waffles, Unicorn Balls, and plant-based ice cream on Pike/Pine’s carnival of treats.

The new Seattle outpost of Cinnaholic is celebrating its grand opening with $1 rolls 10 AM to 2 PM Friday. Sure, you can eat a cinnamon roll for lunch.

CHS talked this summer with Maysaa Abouhamze about her new E Pike business with fellow entrepreneur Trieva Katsandres with plans to take over a short-lived salon’s former space next to Capitol Cider and add another sweet component to the neighborhood’s mix of food, treats, and drinks.

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