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We Tried All of Molly Moon’s New Summer Ice Cream Flavors, and These are the Best

Heat wave = best excuse to go taste the new seasonal treats.

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We don’t take for granted how fun this job is. Case and point: Ice cream empress Molly Moon and her team invited us over recently to try all of the summer flavors in one gluttonous swoop. (The rest of you will have to wait as they’re rolled out a few at a time over through September.) It’s unsurprising given the company’s bright and on-trend branding that their pristine new headquarters in the upper level of the Capitol Hill’s Oddfellows building is one Instagrammable vignette after another.

And then, of course, there’s the ice cream.

Our samples were spread across a glossy white table—yours will likely be on a tiny wooden spoon. Regardless, there’s a lot to love about what’s coming out of the Molly Moon kitchen, er, freezer, this summer. A few highlights:

Vegan Sweet Mint (July): Spring green and creamy, coconut milk base is the perfect neutral host for the explosion of fresh mint in each bite. Don’t get this flavor wrong: though it’s gently sweet, it’s much more mint than anything. Think herbaceous, not sugar cane. Flecks of chocolate balance this flavor into dessert territory and resulted in a delightful surprise.

Arnold Palmer Sorbet (August): Chai-gold in color, lemon rind and citrus juice flavors sparkle against a deep, earthy note of perfectly steeped black tea. Delightful on its own, though especially tasty as a slush blended with alcohol. (You’ll have to bring home a pint to make this at home since MM’s doesn’t serve booze at their scoop shops.)

Blue Corn Chocolate Chip (September): Take everything you’re expecting and throw it out the window. A simple base with subtly sweet corn holds up to melt-in-your-mouth chocolate chips creating a whole new take on this classic. 

Opening Night: Is Ethan Stowell’s Cut Club Happy Hour Going to Solve the Affordability Crisis?

Opening Night: Is Ethan Stowell’s Cut Club Happy Hour Going to Solve the Affordability Crisis?

At Cut Club, the longtime Seattle restaurateur is going old-school, with steaks made for sharing, no service charges, and a happy hour where $12 still buys dinner. 

Cut Club, the new steakhouse inside downtown’s Hotel Max, feels like a restaurant from the not-too-distant past. The menu leans comfortable rather than ambitious or world-spanning. It serves a typical lineup of steak cuts, some traditional sides like oysters, prawn cocktail, and wedge salad, and some cocktails that are between $15 and $20. There’s a…

Outside the Box: Gourmondo Founder Launches Olivina

Outside the Box: Gourmondo Founder Launches Olivina

Alissa Leinonen’s new venture brings her seasonal, Northwest approach to weddings, milestone celebrations, and elevated events.

After 30 years, Alissa Leinonen—founder of renowned catering and box-lunch company, Gourmondo—has launched a new venture. Called Olivina, the new luxury catering and events company focuses on highly personalized, elevated experiences ranging from weddings or other milestone celebrations to corporate gatherings. What started with $4,000 from a refinanced car (and a tiny café in Pike…

7 Washington Fall Festivals Worth the Drive

7 Washington Fall Festivals Worth the Drive

Autumn is back. Celebrate with fresh-hop beer, apple harvests, returning salmon, cranberries, and more. 

Explore 7 fun Washington fall festivals worth the drive, from Leavenworth's Autumn Leaf Festival and Issaquah Salmon Days to CrabFest and Fresh Hop Ale.

Restaurant Roundup: Brunch With a Side of History, Cardamom Lattes, and Chiew Chiew

Restaurant Roundup: Brunch With a Side of History, Cardamom Lattes, and Chiew Chiew

Here’s what was served up recently in the Emerald City.

Hope you’re hungry for a history lesson. Oliver’s, the cocktail lounge inside downtown’s Mayflower Park Hotel, was a Bartell Drugs store during Prohibition before becoming the city’s first hotel bar in the late 1940s—the Carousel Room, named for the carousel horses hung from the ceiling. When Washington repealed the rule forbidding the service of hard…