BOKA Restaurant + Bar chef Kerri Roach is on a mission to bring slow-cooked, Southern-style comfort food to diners’ tables every Sunday starting January 11. These suppers, $35/pp, will include roast chicken and dumplings, pot-roasted short ribs, barbcue pork shoulder, and (my personal favorite) breakfast for dinner. 

Diners who love the Italian cuisine of chef Holly Smith will be happy to learn that Cafe Juanita will make a temporary home in the former Lark space on 12th Avenue on Capitol Hill while remodeling its original digs. From February 4 through early April, Smith will run dinner service Wednesday–Sunday for $135/pp. Though Cafe Juanita’s extensive wine list won’t be available onsite, winers and diners can send the restaurant a note several days in advance if there’s a particular bottle they’d like.

Capitol Hill gains another restaurant in its continuing boom as the place to be in Seattle. Chavez will open just after Christmas in the 12th and Howell microhousing project. Head chef Gabriel Chavez, who most recently hailed from Cantinetta, will man the pass and feature traditional Mexican food, and offer patio seating when weather permits. E

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