Astra Hotel’s Altitude Sky Lounge Rooftop Bar Opens in SLU

Astra Hotel’s new rooftop bar, which presents sweeping views of the Seattle skyline, began serving drinks and small bites in South Lake Union on September 7.

Perched 16 tales above the nook of Terry Avenue North and Thomas Road, Altitude Sky Lounge options an open deck with cushioned armchairs surrounding gasoline firepits and stools dealing with the sides of the rooftop, one dealing with west towards the House Needle, the opposite instantly dealing with South, towards a wall of downtown skyscrapers.

Even the inside of the lounge presents beautiful views — the practically all-glass partitions swing open on sunny days, and patrons can take within the views whereas sitting on the bar, standing round a few counters, or sitting again within the lengthy, couch-like sales space in one other space of the bar across the nook.

The meals menu options little bites to be eaten with drinks, like a number of sizes of charcuterie boards, a serving of Marcona almonds and crispy chickpeas, and numerous dips (golden beet and dill, albacore tuna dip, pork and carrot rillette, and duck liver mousse.)

The bar serves a number of native beers on draft, a few glass-pours every of pink, white, rose, and champagne, and a cocktail listing with drinks like La Brujeria, made with Mezcal, lime, basil, blackberry, and ginger beer, which run between $15 to $20.

The Dungeness Crab and Seafood Pageant returns this October

For the primary time since 2019, the Dungeness Crab and Seafood Festival, additionally identified merely as Crabfest, is again in Port Angeles from October 7 to 9. It presents the chance to eat contemporary Dungeness crab, harvested and cooked simply half-hour east by automotive of the crab’s namesake city.

Throughout its final rendition, the competition served 9 tons of crab in three days, and government director Scott Nagel makes use of his personal fleet of crab boats to provide the competition yearly, which harvest the Dungeness crab from the close by Strait of Juan de Fuca. The crabs are all harvested within the week main as much as the competition and are introduced alive to the competition every day, the place they’re cleaned and cooked on web site and served with corn and coleslaw. They weigh round two kilos every.

Preorders for crab dinners are going for $40, or $21 for half a crab, on the festival’s website. The competition can also be providing curbside pickup Friday and Saturday. You may as well order a cooked and cleaned crab with no sides for $35.

Past the crab, the competition may have dwell music, a beer and wine backyard, and 60 seafood-focused dishes from native eating places, serving dishes starting from Caribbean seafood stew to pan-seared Alaskan weathervane scallops.

Dungeness Crab and Seafood Pageant.

Round 50 native eating places are elevating cash to struggle starvation in Washington

On September 29, round 50 native eating places are taking part in Eating Out For Life, a fundraiser by Seattle’s Lifelong, a quickly growing organization that delivered 339,000 medically-and-culturally tailor-made meals to folks in want in 2021, lots of whom can’t settle for meals from different organizations as a consequence of medical or cultural dietary constraints.

Collaborating eating places this 12 months embrace notable Seattle space eating places and bars like Renee Erickson’s Bateau and Boat Bar, Shubert Ho’s Fireplace & the Feast, Rhein Haus, and Loads of Clouds, they usually’re all donating a beneficiant 30% to 50% of proceeds to Lifelong on the day of the fundraiser. Discover the complete (nonetheless evolving) listing on Dining Out For Life’s website.