ONE OF SEATTLE’S BEST BAKERIES IS NOW DOING SANDWICHES AND ICE CREAM

Just in time for the four-day weekend — at least, we here at Eater Seattle are bailing for the next two days — Temple Pastries is opening up its long-anticipated sandwiches-and-ice-cream window.

Owner Christina Wood has been eyeing an expansion of her Central District business at least since last year, when Temple moved into the space next door that used to be Oaky’s Tex Mex. Last month Wood tried a soft open of the sandwich window but it did not go well. In her newsletter, she wrote, “After a choppy soft open with some lackluster sandwiches and long wait times, I decided to hire a different chef and start over. Yes, it’s taking a little more time and yes, it’s requiring more patience, but it’s all for the sake of quality, and I know you’ll be stoked on what’s to come.”

This Friday, July 5, is the grand opening of the window, which will be open seven days a week, serving breakfast from 7:30 to 11 a.m, lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., and ice cream from 1 to 9 p.m. It’ll be a lean menu with a bodega-style breakfast sandwich in the morning and Italian subs and chopped cheeses in the afternoon. The big attraction here is that all the bread will be baked at the bakery — egg and cheese on Wood’s milk bread? The heart leaps in anticipation! The soft serve flavors to start will be strawberry sumac and vanilla bean, following the local trend of creative soft serve flavors. But where else are you going to find mini croissants?

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La Dive launches partnership with Mamnoon

When Kate Opatz opened the second location of her hip natural wine bar La Dive in Queen Anne, one of the goals was to have a more ambitious food menu than the original Capitol Hill location, where you could get snacks and sandwiches but not much else. Alas, that isn’t really happening. “We just can’t sustain a food program,” Opatz tells Eater Seattle. “We’ve tried and tried in so many ways but it doesn’t pencil out for us.”

Opatz is switching things up by partnering with Middle Eastern restaurant Mamnoon to serve things like hummus, pita, and shawarma bowls. The Queen Anne La Dive has already adopted the Mamnoon menu and the Capitol Hill location will transition in the next week, Opatz says.

New pizzeria moves onto the Hill

Capitale Pizzeria, a restaurant from the owners of Belltown’s La Fontana Siciliana, is set to open later this year at 426 Broadway, where Boca Pizzeria and Bakery once was, reports Capitol Hill Seattle Blog. Boca closed earlier this year after the death of the founder (and subsequent legal complications), but now there is another pizzeria stepping into that void in the neighborhood.

Crave NW is coming soon

Eastern Washington readers — and people who regularly head east of the Cascades — mark your calendars. Crave NW, a food festival headed up by onetime James Beard semifinalist Adam Hegsted, is happening from July 11 to 13. It’ll be highlighting “chefs and tastemakers” from the oft-ignored “Inland Northwest.” For more information, go here.

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