The Roadhouse Bar and Grill has closed its South Hill location. It served its final baskets of pressure fried chicken and jo-jo potatoes last week. However, it’s not the end of the road for the neighborhood watering hole that was founded in 1969. The Roadhouse is on the move. Its new home will be 2 […]
South Hill is getting its first poke bar. It also has boba tea
South Hill is getting its first poke bowl restaurant. Mix Poke Bar and its companion business Sip + Spoon will open in South Hill’s Sunrise Village later this year. “When we opened in Tacoma it was because customers at our Bellevue location would tell us, ‘Please come to Tacoma.’ They were traveling to Bellevue from […]
Uncle Thurm’s, Tacoma’s beloved soul food restaurant, has closed
Uncle Thurm’s, Tacoma’s revered soul food restaurant, has closed its doors. The Lincoln neighborhood restaurant served its last meal on Wednesday, September 15, 2021. “There were multiple factors that brings us to this point, including Covid-19. My lease is terminated through sale of the property among other things,” said co-owner Thurmond Brokenbrough, who has operated […]
Flying Tomato restaurant won’t permanently close, it has a new home
The short version of this story is this: The Flying Tomato Bar and Grill in Graham, a 15-year-old family-friendly restaurant with a classic Italian menu, has found a new home in Spanaway. For those who caught the social media announcement that the restaurant is closing for good, a follow-up post two weeks later (that you […]
Tacoma’s Stadium Thai now open – here’s what’s on the breakfast menu
Tacoma, get to know this little Thai breakfast spot, a serious hole-in-the-wall, that just opened. Stadium Thai debuted last week with something I’ve yet to see in Tacoma on the regular: Thai breakfast. The menu at Stadium Thai, which opened in the former home of the Burger Bar in the Stadium neighborhood, is the creation […]
Here’s what you can expect from the Tacoma Greek Festival this year – a Greek pastry bake sale. Order Now
An army of volunteers once again has piled this summer into the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Tacoma. The church volunteers are armed with gallons of honey syrup and thousands of sheets of phyllo dough. And they have baking to do. Lots of baking. While church volunteers are doing what they do best – […]
Zam Zam International Market now open in Tacoma with halal offerings
When I was writing about Narrows Gyro and that restaurant’s rebranding earlier this year, owner Ziad Abusamha told me that a Middle Eastern grocery store would be opening soon on Tacoma Mall Boulevard. And now it’s open. Welcome to ZamZam International Market, which debuted this spring in a small space tucked behind Peanut Sauce Thai. […]
Parkland Place Bakery & Bistro now open. You must try the cheesecake
Like a lot of food businesses opening in 2021, Susan Krogh’s bakery and bistro was born out of a pivot during the pandemic. Locals will know her as the Susan behind Just Call Susan Catering. Now she’s the force behind Parkland Place Bakery and Bistro. She opened Parkland Place earlier this summer. Last month, she […]
Thai breakfast, Thai favorites on menu at new Stadium Thai in Tacoma
Amara Shafer has always wondered why Thai restaurants in Tacoma don’t regularly serve Thai breakfast. “In Thailand, we have morning markets. You’ll see that everywhere, people go to the market in the morning. We have dishes that are something like phad Thai. You’ll see porridge, something like congee, and rice soups. People buy their food […]