Dispatches from Ravenna, a neighborhood in Northeast Seattle
We’ve been doing “drive-by tweets” of Heidelberg Haus progress (2122 NE 65th St) for a few weeks now, but today we have something even better…
…the MENU.
Heidelberg Haus menu (click to make FULL SIZE)
WE were SO excited to see the offerings that we forgot to ask about an opening date. Please forgive us. We’ll try and rectify that error tomorrow.
There is a website for the new restaurant listed on the menu (Seattle-Eats-German.com), but it’s not alive as of yet.
While those in West Ravenna wait for the new German restaurant to open, those in East Ravenna and Bryant can enjoy the new Greek restaurant, Taverna MaZi (3426 NE 55th St) today.
Would you like to see the menu? Or perhaps the drink list?
Eater Seattle has a post up with more information about both the food and the people behind Taverna MaZi (click on the picture below to read it).
Things have been pretty quiet on the restaurant inspections front lately. And then these four came across the wire just the other day:
Because of its high inspection score, Ristorante La Piazza will be revisited by inspectors in two weeks for a reevaluation. In fact, it’s probably already happened: Inspection reports are available online two weeks after the fact.
All establishments with Red violations (the violations that are most likely to cause food borne illness) get them dealt with on the spot, no matter the inspection score total. “Environmental Health Specialists work with operators to make sure that red critical violations are corrected before they leave the establishment,” sayeth the King County Public Health site (my emphasis).
For a more in-depth description of restaurant inspection scores, read our old post, “Restaurant Inspection Round-Up Redo.”
Furthermore, I’ll offer up a new tag line to these restaurant inspection posts:
Ravenna Blog wants you to know: We’d eat at any of these restaurants, at any time…especially if you’re buying.
I’m a sucker for local bluegrass bands, probably because my brother was in one (The Dustmakers). I enjoyed going to his shows…and hearing his horrible, horrible banjo jokes.
Gentlemen Buckhunters: Quite possibly the Old Spice Guys of bluegrass (judging from this picture anyway)
So when we got an email from Gentlemen Buckhunters about their show tonight near our neighborhood (The Scarlet Tree, 801 NE 65th Street, 9pm), I said I’d be happy to promote it on the Ravenna Blog.
Plus, they said they’d plug the blog from the stage! How cool is that?!
From the event’s facebook page:
This Friday, Gentlemen Buckhunters is opening a show at the Scarlet Tree. This is our second time playing at this venue, and we’re really excited to play there! We’re opening for Big Medicine. This will be a good show! Check out ours and Big Medicine online!!
Go to Gentlemen Buckhunters’ SoundCloud page to check out their sound (I’m partial to Drinking Dark Whiskey [ha ha]). They’ve also got a video teaser on facebook. To give main act The Big Medicine a listen (band members include brothers Chad and Nathan Jackson of Local 808 and Drop Six), hit their myspace page.
No, I STILL don’t know what’s going in, but here’s a few pictures of what has gone (physically) ON the outside of Osaka:
Two lamps and a painted door!
Close-up of one of the lamps.
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