MorningSheetSeattle restaurant openings: week of July 9, 2026
The Seattle restaurants that just opened and what's coming next. One edition in a weekly series.
Newer list: Opening soon in Seattle, updated October 12, 2026
- 26Opened · Last two weeks
- 5Coming soon
- 6Building out
- 55Opening signals · Last 30 days
Newly open in Seattle
26 Seattle food businesses opened in the two weeks ending July 9, 2026. These are brand new and often still easing in (soft-open hours and short menus) so check in with them before you cross town.
- Broth & Noodle Bar Full-Service Restaurant
- Oh Yeah Banh Mi Full-Service Restaurant
- Bite Theory by Nikfoods Limited-Service Restaurant
- Toro Sushi Hand Roll Bar Full-Service Restaurant
- El Cerro Café / Coffee Shop their site
- Lake City Baked Café / Coffee Shop
- Tempii Mobile Food Vendor
- Cha Chak Café / Coffee Shop CHS Capitol Hill Seattle News: “Thai tea and dessert shop Cha Chak coming to Capitol Hill Station”
- Cut Club Full-Service Restaurant WhatNow: “Cut Club Concept Proposed for Downtown Seattle” In our feed since March 13, 2026, 3 months before the doors opened.
- Death & Co Seattle Bar / Tavern The Business Journals: “Denver developer's project to debut Death & Co. bar in Seattle”
- Kajiken Full-Service Restaurant Eater Seattle: “‘Soup-Less’ Ramen Chain Kajiken Is Opening a Restaurant in Seattle” In our feed since April 8, 2026, 3 months before the doors opened.
- Acai Paraiso Café / Coffee Shop
- Argentum Limited-Service Restaurant
- Bao Home Full-Service Restaurant
- Bright Side Matcha Bar Mobile Food Vendor
- Dzo Coffee Café / Coffee Shop their site
- Elachi Café / Coffee Shop their site
- Janta Limited-Service Restaurant
- Keki Place Café / Coffee Shop their site
- Magnuson Bbq Mobile Food Vendor
- Makan Tayo Café / Coffee Shop
- Puntarelle Restaurant and Bar Full-Service Restaurant
- Qahwa Corner Limited-Service Restaurant
- Rubys Full-Service Restaurant
- Takumi Sushi Full-Service Restaurant
- Tea Labs Mobile Food Vendor
How we know
"Open" means the business license or health permit went active, which usually lands within days of first service. Where a spot has press or a live site, we link it.
Coming soon
These haven't opened yet, so no names. For each one: the concept, how far along it is, and the month its latest signal landed.
-
Restaurant × 4 · Seattle · Liquor application filed: expect a bar program, signals dated June 2026
-
Food service: concept not yet on file · Seattle · Liquor application filed: expect a bar program, signal dated June 2026
-
Food service: concept not yet on file × 5 · Seattle · Building out, signals dated May 2026 – June 2026
In total, 5 Seattle food businesses are in the final stretch right now (inspection, liquor application, or completed build-out on file) and 6 more are building out.
The bigger picture in Seattle
As of July 9, 2026, Seattle has produced 55 opening signals in the last 30 days, and 113 over the last 90 days. By concept:
How we know
Source: King County public records · 90-day window. Counts are estimates from public filings and lag real life by days to weeks.
What the mix means for you
One edition, several readers. Each concept above opens a different buying window, for a different rep, at a moment you can only catch by reading the record early.
- If you sell payments or POS: the processor has to be live for the soft open, and installation plus menu programming take weeks. Full-service and quick-service openings are your volume.
- If you sell commercial insurance: Washington generally requires liquor liability and general-liability coverage before a liquor license issues, so every bar or tavern signal is a dated deadline the owner already knows about.
- If you sell business banking or bookkeeping: a new entity needs an account before it can take a dollar, and there is no incumbent yet. The café and bakery signals are the earliest, cleanest version of this.
- If you sell payroll: the moment a truck graduates to a storefront or a first location staffs up, payroll and workers' comp become newly required.
How we count
We fuse Washington public records into one record per business, pulling from more than 20 public sources to find the freshest restaurant openings in the state. All counts are estimates, rounded honestly, and built purely from business-entity records in open data.