This week, Ballard gets a new cult-favorite brewery specializing in sour beer, a new chocolate factory and espresso bar hits Pike Place Market, and University District greets a new donut shop with donut ice cream sandwiches and croissant-donut hybrids. Plus, Rachel’s Ginger Beer announces a new location a stone’s throw from the Spheres, and the chef behind Eden Hill plans to open a new restaurant. Read on to learn about all that and more. For more delicious ideas, check out our list of Seattle food and drink specials to try in May, our Seattle Beer Week calendar, our list of farmers markets in Seattle, and our full food and drink calendar.
OPENINGS
Dirty Couch Brewing
The Ballard brewery Dirty Couch Brewing, which specializes in mixed-fermented sours, opens its first outpost with a taproom today. The new space is over five times as big as the original location and serves some of the brewery’s most popular flavors like Donut Return (a sour fruited-style beer made with donut peaches) and Irregularity Blackberry (a sour blonde beer with blackberry), along with newcomers like a bourbon barrel-aged beer called Tayberry Gin Saison.
Magnolia
