This week, we re revisiting the Seattle Asian Art Museum, honoring saints at Saint Bread, and celebrating the Marshall Law Band and Tres Leches in-person. Check out all our top recommendations for this week below. Photos courtesy of The Stranger (Anthony Keo), Saint Bread, and Marshall Law Band (James Gerde)
ALL WEEK: LOW TIDES AT LOCAL BEACHES
A low tide in West Seattle. Getty Images
This week, and at certain times of the day, the tides will be exceptionally low for our few and usually not spectacular beaches. And why should this be of interest to you? For one, low tides (by nearly 4 feet on Friday at 12:58 pm) expose the strange-looking creatures whose niche is that area where life transitioned from the sea to land millions of years ago. Beaches at low tides are holy places, in the evolutionary rather than religious sense. But Darwin is not the only Englishman to consider during a very low tide. There is also Isaac Newton. He provided the world with the first comprehensive theor
Saint Bread opens stunning new bakery on Seattle s Portage Bay
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Naomi Tomky, Special to the Seattle P-I
April 29, 2021
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From a historically blessed spot on the shores of the Lake Washington Ship Canal, Seattle’s newest bakery, Saint Bread, puts out a divine, if eclectic, selection of food. Squirreled away in a tiny corner of Boat Street at the edge of the University of Washington campus, Saint Bread’s pastry case boasts Scandinavian cardamom knots and Japanese melonpan, while the prepared menu includes a bratwurst sandwich, avocado toast, and an okonomiyaki tortilla.
Before the arrival of the baguette-wielding stained-glass saint who keeps watch from a window over Saint Bread’s covered patio, the location was home to the nearly 100-year-old Jensen Motor Boat Company, which a customer appropriately called a “wooden boat cathedral” when it closed in 2018.
Chocolate chip cookies and okonomiyaki tortillas arrive on a working waterfront.
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Allecia Vermillion
4/28/2021 at 9:16am
Tiny but mighty.
A bakery and cafe counter called Saint Bread opened softly this week in a former motor boatyard on the shore of Portage Bay. It occupies a spare, newly sparkling building that was used to be a machine shop within the Jensen Motor Boat Company complex. Inside, a menu of pastries, toasts, and sandwiches can trace its DNA directly back to the London Plane.
Itâs the brainchild of Yasuaki Saito, an owner in both London Plane and Post Alley Pizza. He brought in baker Michael Sanders, who ran the impressive bread shop within London Plane, and Randi Rachlow from Acres Baking Co. All of which to say, dough figures heavily on the menu, but so do the trioâs various heritages. Saitoâs friend Samuel Smith, of Portlandâs marvelous Tusk, helped design a breakfast and lunch menu: egg salad sandwiches with kewpie mayo and furikake, an ok