Lark alum Mitch Mayers' new Ballard restaurant Sawyer features new takes on classic American desserts, like house-made s'more choco tacos. Credit: Brooke Fitts

Lark alum Mitch Mayers new Ballard restaurant Sawyer features new takes on classic American desserts, like house-made smore choco tacos.

Lark alum Mitch Mayers’ new Ballard restaurant Sawyer features new takes on classic American desserts, like house-made s’more choco tacos. Brooke Fitts

This week in food news, Lark alum Mitch Mayers’ highly anticipated new restaurant Sawyer opens in Ballard with oxtail nachos and fancy choco tacos (!), Dexter Brewhouse opens a new cafe and brewery with a huge patio in Sand Point, and Starbucks debuts the first standalone location of its Italian artisan bakery Princi. Plus, Momofuku Milk Bar will bring its coveted crack pie and cereal milk soft serve to Canlis, and three Seattle restaurants make Bon Appétit‘s 50 nominees for Best New Restaurant 2018. Learn about all that and more below. For more ideas for things to eat and drink, check out our food and drink calendar.

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OPENINGS
Cocina Oaxaca
On Thursday, July 26, Capitol Hill’s La Cocina Oaxaqueña opened a restaurant called Cocina Oaxaca in the former space of Mio Sushi in Green Lake, serving a menu similar to the Capitol Hill location with items like mole negro oaxaqueño, pozole, and tacos along with a few exclusive dishes.
Green Lake

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