If your Saturday walk around the Everett Marina does not end at a waffle cone with two mystery flavors swirled together, you are not using the waterfront correctly anymore. Menchie’s at the Marina has been open at Waterfront Place for five weeks now, and it has quietly become the best addition to Restaurant Row nobody is talking about.
The New Self-Serve Fro-Yo Shop on Everett’s Waterfront
Menchie’s Frozen Yogurt ribbon-cut at 1420 Seiner Drive, Suite 103 on March 7, 2026, making it the third tenant to arrive in the current wave of Waterfront Place openings — behind Rustic Cork Wine Bar (December 2025) and Tapped Public House (March 2026). The Port of Everett announced the grand opening with a Buy One, Get One Free promo that ran from 2 PM to 9 PM on opening day, and judging from the line we saw Saturday afternoon at 3:30, the locals remembered.
Here is why this matters for how you use the waterfront: Menchie’s sits on the corner of the building facing the Pacific Rim Plaza Splash Fountain, with a walk-up window that opens directly to the esplanade. That means you can grab a cup without committing to indoor seating, without fighting for a parking spot in the main Seiner Drive lot, and without breaking the flow of a waterfront walk. The walk-up window alone changes the rhythm of a marina loop.
Who Is Behind It, and Why It Feels Local
The owners are Joe Karl and Leah Solis-Karl, the same couple who operate the Menchie’s at Canyon Park Commons in Bothell. According to Port of Everett communications, Joe keeps his 28-foot fishing boat moored in the South Marina and Leah previously worked at Naval Station Everett earlier in her career. In other words, this is not a franchise drop from Texas. These are people whose Saturdays already happen at this marina, and they chose to put a shop directly in their neighborhood. The fact that Joe ties up at the South Marina and Leah has NAVSTA ties on her résumé makes the Everett location feel less like a franchise and more like a couple who finally opened something near their own boat slip.
Port CEO Lisa Lefeber called Menchie’s “a great addition to the Port’s restaurant row,” which is polite CEO-speak for the Port has been wanting a dessert tenant on this row for years and is relieved this one finally stuck the landing. The Port originally inked the Menchie’s lease back in January 2023, which means this opening is three years in the making.
What to Order
Menchie’s runs the standard self-serve format — you pay by the ounce, you build your own cup, nobody judges you for a four-flavor swirl. The menu leans on rotating monthly limited-time flavors plus the usual core rotation of chocolate, vanilla, and fruit sorbets. The topping bar is stocked the way you would expect — fresh berries, cheesecake bites, mochi, sprinkles, hot fudge.
Here is our order:
- The honest move: whatever the seasonal flavor is, plus chocolate, with fresh strawberries and a single square of brownie. Trust the rotation.
- For kids: a 3-oz cup with cookie dough and rainbow sprinkles. You will not spend more than $4 and you will not regret it.
- For after dinner at Tapped: walk down, get a tart with graham cracker crumbles. Balances the ranch-and-pretzel mood from the rooftop.
The Verdict, Five Weeks In
We have been through twice — once on a Saturday afternoon with marina traffic, once on a weekday evening when the splash fountain had three kids running through it and Menchie’s was the natural next stop. Both visits, the swirl towers were clean, the toppings were fresh, and the walk-up window was open. The staff recognized at least two repeat customers in the 15 minutes we were there.
Here is the honest take: frozen yogurt is not reinvented here. What is reinvented is how a summer evening at the Everett Marina ends. Before March 7, a waterfront walk had a soft ending — maybe a coffee from a truck, maybe nothing at all. Now it has a waffle cone and a photo op by the splash fountain. That is a small shift with real consequences for how families use Waterfront Place on weekends.
Menchie’s at the Marina: The Details
- Address: 1420 Seiner Drive, Suite 103, Everett, WA 98201
- Location context: Corner of Waterfront Place facing the Pacific Rim Plaza Splash Fountain, walk-up window faces the esplanade
- Style: Self-serve frozen yogurt, pay-by-the-ounce
- Indoor + outdoor seating: Yes, plus walk-up window
- Parking: Seiner Drive lot is the closest; on busy weekends use the South Marina overflow and walk the esplanade
- Kid-friendly: Extremely. The splash fountain is 30 seconds away.
- What to pair it with: Dinner at Tapped Public House, a wine flight at Rustic Cork, or a Port of Everett Food Truck Fridays session
Why This Matters for Waterfront Place
Menchie’s is the third piece of a puzzle Waterfront Place has been assembling since Fisherman’s Harbor broke ground. Tapped Public House owns the happy-hour slot. Rustic Cork owns the date-night slot. The Net Shed Fish Market & Kitchen owns the serious-lunch slot. Menchie’s owns the after-dinner-with-kids slot and the walk-up-after-the-splash-pad slot — both of which were missing. That is how a waterfront district actually fills in: not with one flagship restaurant, but with a dessert shop that makes the other three restaurants more functional for families.
Still to come on the row: Marina Azul Cocina & Cantina, which the Port has confirmed is preparing to open, and one last flagship dining tenant the Port is still hunting for on the final parcel. The row is almost full. Menchie’s was the easy one. The flagship is the hard one.
Frequently Asked Questions
When did Menchie’s at the Everett Marina open?
Menchie’s Frozen Yogurt held its ribbon-cutting at the Port of Everett’s Waterfront Place on March 7, 2026. The Port of Everett originally signed the lease with Menchie’s in January 2023.
Where exactly is Menchie’s at the Marina located?
1420 Seiner Drive, Suite 103, Everett, WA 98201 — at Waterfront Place on Fisherman’s Harbor, facing the Pacific Rim Plaza Splash Fountain with a walk-up window that opens to the waterfront esplanade.
Who owns Menchie’s at the Marina in Everett?
Joe Karl and Leah Solis-Karl, who also operate the Menchie’s at Canyon Park Commons in Bothell. Joe moors his fishing boat in the Port of Everett’s South Marina, and Leah previously worked at Naval Station Everett.
Is there outdoor seating at Menchie’s at the Marina?
Yes. The shop has both indoor seating and outdoor seating, plus a walk-up window that opens to the waterfront esplanade so you can grab frozen yogurt without going inside.
What else has opened recently at Waterfront Place?
Menchie’s is the third tenant in the current wave, following Rustic Cork Wine Bar (opened December 2025) and Tapped Public House (opened March 2026). The Net Shed Fish Market & Kitchen opened in late 2025 as well. Marina Azul Cocina & Cantina is the next expected opening.
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