What is The New Mexicans in Everett? The New Mexicans is a New Mexican (not Mexican) restaurant at 1416 Hewitt Avenue serving Hatch green chile, posole, sopaipillas and famous in-house cinnamon rolls. The restaurant was founded in 2012 by Chrystal Handy whose family is from New Mexico, and is now run by Evie and Vince De Simone, who hail from Hatch, NM. It’s the only restaurant in Snohomish County serving genuine New Mexican cuisine, and locals call it the perfect pre-Silvertips game stop.

The New Mexicans on Hewitt Is the Only Restaurant in Snohomish County Doing Real Hatch Green Chile — And the Cinnamon Rolls Are the Best in Everett

Let’s clear up the most common mistake first. The New Mexicans is not a Mexican restaurant. It’s a New Mexican restaurant — the cuisine of the state of New Mexico, which is its own thing, with its own ingredients, its own flavor profile, and its own argument about whether red or green is better. (At The New Mexicans you can order “Christmas,” which means both, and that is the move.)

If you’ve never had real New Mexican food, the easiest way to think about it is: take Mexican food, give it to a high-altitude region built around Hatch chile peppers and Pueblo culture, let it sit in there for 400 years, and you’ll get something that tastes nothing like the Tex-Mex or California-Mex or Sonoran-Mex you’re used to. The chile is the foundation. The sopaipilla is the bread. And the green chile cheeseburger is its own American food group.

The New Mexicans, at 1416 Hewitt Avenue in downtown Everett, is the only place in Snohomish County doing this cuisine for real. It’s been there since 2012. Most of Everett still treats it like a discovery.

Who’s Behind It

The restaurant was opened in 2012 by Chrystal Handy, whose family is from New Mexico. As of February 2017, ownership transitioned to Evie and Vince De Simone, who are from Hatch, New Mexico — yes, that Hatch, the chile-pepper Hatch — and they kept the menu and the philosophy intact. They bake their own bread, their own sopaipillas, and their own cinnamon rolls in-house. That last detail is going to come up again.

The Hatch Chile Question

If you walk into a New Mexican restaurant and the question “red or green?” doesn’t show up on your menu or your server’s lips, it’s not really a New Mexican restaurant. At The New Mexicans, that question shows up everywhere. Order Christmas. That’s the local-knowledge answer — half red chile sauce, half green chile sauce, both made from real Hatch chile shipped up from the source.

The dishes that show off the chile best:

• Posole / Pozole — the deeply savory hominy stew with pork. The version here runs spicier than most Mexican-restaurant versions and the broth has the richness that says it’s been simmering longer than a normal Tuesday-night soup. Order it on a cold Everett day. You’ll get it.
• Green chile cheeseburger — the New Mexico state sandwich, built on the official Green Chile Cheeseburger Trail philosophy: Hatch green chile, melted cheese, no apologies. This is the one to order if you’ve got a friend who refuses to try “weird food.”
• Stuffed sopaipillas — fried bread pillows stuffed with carne adovada (red chile pork), beans, and cheese. The sopaipilla itself is the star — light, hot, faintly sweet, used to sponge up the chile sauce.
• Carne adovada — pork slow-cooked in red chile sauce. The textbook New Mexican dish. Order it as an entrée or as the filling in something else.

Now About Those Cinnamon Rolls

Here’s the thing nobody preps you for: The New Mexicans makes the best cinnamon rolls in Everett. Plate-sized. Warm. House-baked. Glazed, not over-iced. They’re not a side dessert. They’re a destination order. People walk in for a cinnamon roll and a coffee and walk out fully justified.

The why-cinnamon-rolls-at-a-Southwest-restaurant question has a real answer. New Mexican breakfast traditions absolutely include sweet baked goods, and the De Simones bake all of their bread in-house. But functionally? They’re just the best cinnamon rolls on Hewitt Avenue, and that’s reason enough.

Why It Matters Where It Sits

The New Mexicans is on Hewitt Avenue, two blocks from Angel of the Winds Arena. It’s the perfect pre-Silvertips game stop and the locals know it. Get there 90 minutes before puck drop, eat a green chile cheeseburger, walk to the arena, sit through three periods of WHL hockey, walk back for a cinnamon roll if the place is still open. That’s a downtown Everett night that costs less than a single ticket to a Mariners game and tastes better than 90% of what’s on the lower bowl concourse at T-Mobile Park.

Logistics

Address: 1416 Hewitt Avenue, Everett, WA 98201
Cuisine: New Mexican (not Mexican). Hatch chile, sopaipillas, posole, green chile cheeseburgers, carne adovada, in-house cinnamon rolls.
Phone / Reservations: Reservations are accepted; the restaurant offers take-out and delivery.
Website: thenewmexicanseverett.com
Parking: Street parking on Hewitt and the side streets; the city lot at Hewitt and Rockefeller is a block east.
Price range: $$ — most plates run $14–$22, breakfast and burgers cheaper, cocktails and house margaritas extra.
Pre-game tip: 90 minutes before any Silvertips, AquaSox, or Angel of the Winds Arena event.
Happy hour: Real one. Locals show up for it.

What to Order Your First Time

For a true introduction: Order a stuffed sopaipilla “Christmas” (red and green chile both), with a side of posole. If you’re a burger person, do the green chile cheeseburger and an order of the in-house chips and salsa. Either way, save room for a cinnamon roll. Take the second half home.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is The New Mexicans a Mexican restaurant? No. It’s a New Mexican restaurant — the cuisine of the state of New Mexico, which is distinct from Mexican food. The two cuisines share roots but use different ingredients (especially Hatch chile) and different preparations.

Where is The New Mexicans in Everett? 1416 Hewitt Avenue, Everett, WA 98201, in downtown Everett a couple of blocks west of Angel of the Winds Arena.

Who owns The New Mexicans? Evie and Vince De Simone, who are originally from Hatch, New Mexico, took over from founder Chrystal Handy in 2017 and have run it since.

What is “Christmas” on a New Mexican menu? Christmas means both red and green chile sauce on the same dish, half-and-half. It’s the standard local-knowledge order at any real New Mexican restaurant.

Are the cinnamon rolls really that good? Yes. They’re house-baked, plate-sized, and consistently one of the best baked goods in downtown Everett. They sell out on weekends.

Is The New Mexicans good before a Silvertips game? It’s the local pre-game stop. Two blocks from Angel of the Winds Arena. Get there 90 minutes before puck drop.

Does The New Mexicans have happy hour? Yes. The happy hour menu is real, with lower-priced cocktails and small plates, and locals know about it.

What should a first-timer order at The New Mexicans? A stuffed sopaipilla “Christmas,” a side of posole, and a cinnamon roll to share or take home. If you want the most New Mexican thing on the menu in one bite, order the green chile cheeseburger.

Where can I get authentic Italian food in Everett? Luca Italian Restaurant & Wine Bar at 1712 Hewitt Avenue is run by owner Bepi from Florence and head chef Vincenzo from Sicily. Pasta, tomatoes, cheese and meats come from Italy; produce comes from Washington farms. Hours are Tuesday–Sunday 5 p.m. to close, closed Mondays. The carbonara, bucatini alla siciliana, and the burrata-and-shrimp salad are the orders. The wine list runs deep into Italian reds.

Luca Italian Restaurant on Hewitt Avenue Is Doing Real Florentine Cooking — And It Took Over the Old Chianti Space, Which Was Always Going to Be the Test

Anybody who lived in Everett for any length of time has a Chianti story. The old Italian spot at 1712 Hewitt Avenue was a downtown anchor for years — birthdays, anniversaries, that one work dinner you remember. So when Chianti closed and a new Italian restaurant moved in to that exact room in July 2023, every Everett food obsessive had the same question: is this guy serious, or is he just renting the chairs?

He’s serious. He’s from Florence. His name is Bepi, he runs the floor with his wife, and after almost three years of watching this kitchen, we’ll say it directly: Luca Italian Restaurant & Wine Bar is now the best Italian dinner room in Everett, and it’s not particularly close.

The Setup

Luca opened in July 2023 in the old Chianti space. Bepi grew up in Florence — actual Florence, not “I-took-a-trip-to-Tuscany Florence” — and he brought in a head chef from Sicily, Vincenzo, who’d already spent a decade cooking at Italian restaurants in Seattle. That pairing matters. Bepi controls the room, the wine, the temperature; Vincenzo controls the line.

The ingredient sourcing is the tell. Most of the produce is from Washington farms (Snohomish County in season, when they can pull it). The pasta, the tomatoes, the cheese, the meats — those come from Italy. The ricotta is shipped in from Palermo. That’s not a marketing line. You can taste it the second the burrata-and-shrimp salad hits the table.

What to Order

The pasta menu is where Luca makes its case. Three orders that we’d send anyone to first time:

• Carbonara — guanciale, egg, pecorino. No cream. The way it’s supposed to be made. A balance of fat and salt and the egg-yolk silk that most American “carbonara” misses by a mile. This is a tier-one Italian dish anywhere on the I-5 corridor.
• Bucatini alla Siciliana — Vincenzo’s room. Tomato, eggplant, ricotta salata. Bucatini is a difficult pasta to cook well at home and this is what it’s supposed to taste like.
• Burrata and shrimp salad — the appetizer that becomes the dinner-conversation moment. The burrata is the star. The shrimp is the supporting actor. Order it for the table.

The thin-crust pizza menu is real, not a courtesy menu. The wood-fired pies come out crisp at the edge and properly slack in the middle. Margherita, prosciutto e rucola, and the seasonal special are all worth attention. There’s also a meat-and-fresh-seafood section of the menu — that’s where Bepi’s Florentine background shows up most clearly.

The Wine Bar Half

The full name is “Luca Italian Restaurant & Wine Bar” and Bepi takes the second half of that seriously. The list is heavily Italian, leaning into Tuscan reds (Chianti, Brunello), Sicilian reds (Nero d’Avola — pair it with the bucatini), and a working selection of whites that go with the seafood and lighter pastas. The by-the-glass program is meaningful, not the four-bottle afterthought you sometimes get at neighborhood spots.

If you go in not knowing what you want, ask Bepi. He’ll find you the right pour for what you’re eating in under two minutes. That’s the difference between a restaurant with a wine list and a restaurant with a wine bar.

The Room

Luca kept the bones of the old Chianti space — the L-shaped dining room, the wood-warm interior, the corner-table romance — but cleaned up the lighting and tightened the layout. It’s the date-night room downtown Everett didn’t have a clean version of. It’s also the small-celebration room — birthdays, anniversaries, “we got the offer accepted.” Reservations are essential on Friday and Saturday and a smart move any night you actually need a table.

Logistics

Address: 1712 Hewitt Avenue, Everett, WA 98201
Hours: Tuesday–Thursday 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.; Friday 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.; Saturday 5 p.m. to close; Sunday 4 p.m. to 10 p.m.; closed Mondays.
Phone: (425) 789-1279
Website: luca-restaurant.com
Reservations: Take them. Use them. Toast online or by phone.
Parking: Street parking on Hewitt and the side streets; the city lot at Hewitt and Rockefeller is two blocks away.
Price range: $$$ — pasta entrées land roughly $22–$32, mains higher, wine pours $12–$18.
Best time to go: Tuesday or Wednesday for the quiet room; Friday or Saturday with a reservation if you want the energy.

One Honest Note

Luca is not a quick weeknight dinner. The kitchen takes its time the way a real Italian dinner is supposed to take its time. Show up expecting a 90-minute meal, not a 45-minute meal. If that’s not the night you’re trying to have, go to Brooklyn Bros for pizza or the New Mexicans up the street for a quicker bowl. Luca is for the dinner you actually want to sit through.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Luca Italian Restaurant in Everett still open in 2026? Yes. Luca opened in July 2023 and is operating regular hours at 1712 Hewitt Avenue. Closed Mondays.

Who owns Luca Italian Restaurant? Owner Bepi and his wife are from Florence; head chef Vincenzo is from Sicily and previously spent a decade cooking at Italian restaurants in Seattle.

What was at 1712 Hewitt Avenue before Luca? The space was Chianti, a longtime downtown Everett Italian restaurant, until Luca took it over and reopened in July 2023.

Does Luca take reservations? Yes. Use them on Friday and Saturday. Online via Toast or by phone at (425) 789-1279.

Is Luca expensive? Mid-range to upper-mid for downtown Everett. Pasta entrées land around $22–$32, mains higher, by-the-glass wine pours roughly $12–$18.

What should I order at Luca for the first time? The carbonara is the no-debate first order. Add the bucatini alla siciliana for a second pasta to share, and the burrata-and-shrimp salad as a starter.

Does Luca have pizza? Yes — thin-crust, wood-fired. The margherita and prosciutto e rucola are both honest Italian-style pies.

Where do I park near Luca Italian Restaurant? Street parking is usually findable on Hewitt and the side streets; the city lot at Hewitt and Rockefeller is two blocks away.

Where can I get African food in Everett? Heritage African Restaurant at 2019 Hewitt Avenue, on the corner of Hewitt and Broadway in downtown Everett, serves West African staples like jollof rice, egusi soup, suya grilled lamb and oxtail stew alongside burgers and soul food. Co-owner Fatou Dibba and her aunt Mama Saho opened the restaurant in late February 2024 in the multicolored building that used to house Sol De Mexico. Hours are 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

Heritage African Restaurant Has Been Quietly Serving the Best Jollof in Snohomish County for Two Years — And Most of Everett Still Doesn’t Know

The multicolored building on the corner of Hewitt and Broadway used to be Sol De Mexico. We drove past it for years. Then in early 2024 the murals got freshened up, the windows changed, and a name we’d never seen in Everett before went up over the door: Heritage African Restaurant.

It is, two years in, the most underrated restaurant in downtown Everett. We’re not going to be subtle about that.

What Heritage Actually Is

Heritage African Restaurant is the work of Fatou Dibba and her aunt, Mama Saho. Dibba moved to the Pacific Northwest as a teenager. She started cooking the food of her childhood — Senegalese, Gambian and broader West African dishes — for events around Snohomish County, and the response was immediate. People who’d never tried African food were asking how to pay her to make more of it. Her aunt, who already runs Diva’s Beauty Supply in Lynnwood with her, suggested they open a real restaurant.

They spent a year hunting for a space and several months retooling the inside of 2019 Hewitt Avenue before they opened the doors in late February 2024. The colors on the outside of that building are a tell. So is the warmth inside.

The Move: Order the Jollof. Then Order More Jollof.

If you’ve never had West African food, here’s the orientation. Jollof rice is the dish you build a meal around. Long-grain rice cooked in tomato, onion, scotch bonnet pepper and a stock that’s been built up for hours until the rice itself tastes like the bottom of a pan that’s been working all day. Heritage’s version is exactly that — savory, smoky from the bottom of the pot, with the kind of low heat that warms you up rather than punishes you.

From there, the menu opens up:

• Egusi soup — ground melon-seed stew, deeply savory, served with fufu or rice. This is the one that tells you whether a kitchen is serious. Heritage’s is.
• Suya / Dibi Afra — grilled lamb with a spice rub built around peanut, ginger and chili. Order it. Don’t think about it. Order it.
• Oxtail stew or oxtail soup — tender, rich, the broth gelatinous in the way oxtail broth is supposed to be.
• Suppa Kanja (okra stew) — Senegalese-style, deep green, served over rice.
• Fataya pies — stuffed hand pies, perfect appetizer, share them.

The menu also runs sideways into burgers and soul food — wings, fried catfish, sandwiches — which makes Heritage one of the easier “first African meal” introductions for anyone you’re trying to bring along. Nobody at the table gets stuck without an order they recognize.

Why This Spot Matters

Everett’s downtown food scene has gotten genuinely interesting in the last three years. Hewitt Avenue alone now anchors Italian (Luca, two blocks east), New Mexican (The New Mexicans, three blocks west), pizza (Brooklyn Bros), Korean (K Fresh), and African (Heritage). That’s a downtown stretch that used to lean heavily into bar food and now reads like a small city’s actual restaurant row.

Heritage is the most distinctive of those rooms. There’s no other restaurant in Snohomish County serving jollof, egusi and suya from a Gambian and Senegalese kitchen. The closest equivalents are in Seattle, Tukwila or Tacoma. For a 100,000-person city to have a restaurant this specific and this good, on its main drag, is the kind of thing locals should be louder about.

Logistics

Address: 2019 Hewitt Avenue, Everett, WA 98201 (corner of Hewitt and Broadway).
Hours: Monday–Thursday and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Phone: (425) 374-7728
Website: heritageafricanrestaurant.com
Delivery: Yes — DoorDash and Postmates both carry it.
Parking: Street parking on Hewitt and Broadway, plus the city lot a block south. We’ve never had a problem at lunch. Friday and Saturday dinner gets busier.
Price range: $$ — most plates land in the $14–$22 range; oxtail and lamb plates push higher.
Best time to go: Tuesday or Wednesday lunch if you want the room mostly to yourselves; Friday after 7 p.m. if you want it lively.

What to Order Your First Time

For two people: one large jollof rice, the egusi soup, a side of suya. Split a fataya pie up front. Get the hibiscus drink (zobo) if it’s on the day’s menu — it’s the right sweet/tart to balance the spice. That gets you out the door for around $50–$60, and you’ll leave knowing whether you’re a Heritage regular yet. (You will be.)

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Heritage African Restaurant open in 2026? Yes. Heritage opened in February 2024 and is operating regular hours at 2019 Hewitt Avenue in downtown Everett as of April 2026.

What kind of African food does Heritage serve? The kitchen leans West African, anchored in Gambian and Senegalese traditions — jollof rice, egusi soup, suya grilled lamb, oxtail stew, suppa kanja okra stew, and fataya hand pies — with a soul-food and burger sideline.

Who owns Heritage African Restaurant in Everett? Co-owners Fatou Dibba and her aunt Mama Saho. They also run Diva’s Beauty Supply in Lynnwood.

Is Heritage African Restaurant spicy? The food has heat, but most dishes sit in the warming-not-burning range. Anything built on scotch bonnet (jollof, certain stews) carries real spice; the kitchen will adjust on request.

Does Heritage take reservations? Walk-ins are normal at lunch. For larger parties or weekend dinner, call ahead at (425) 374-7728.

Where can I park near Heritage African Restaurant? Street parking on Hewitt Avenue and Broadway, plus the city parking lot one block south. Free in the evenings.

Does Heritage deliver? Yes — DoorDash and Postmates both deliver from 2019 Hewitt Avenue.

What should I order at Heritage African Restaurant if I’ve never had African food? Start with jollof rice and a side of suya grilled lamb. Both are approachable, deeply flavored, and a good window into how the kitchen handles spice and seasoning.

Quick answer: Lazy Boy Brewing is at 715 100th St SE, Suite A1, Everett, WA 98208 — tucked in the back corner of an industrial complex south of Highway 526. The taproom is inside the brewery itself and pours nine Lazy Boy beers including taproom-only specials. Open Wednesday–Saturday, 3pm–9pm; closed Sunday–Tuesday. Trivia on Thursdays, line dancing once a month on Fridays, live music Saturdays, occasional yoga. With At Large Brewing closed as of March 31, Lazy Boy is now one of the most underrated brewery taprooms left in Everett — and the regulars want to keep it that way.

The Brewery Hiding in an Industrial Park

Most people who have driven past 100th Street SE on the way to the Boeing Freeway have never noticed the small Lazy Boy Brewing sign tucked into a multi-tenant industrial building. That’s the whole point. Lazy Boy isn’t a destination brewery in the Cascade district sense — it’s a working brewery with a taproom inside it, and the room itself feels like it. Concrete floor. Steel beams. Tap list on a chalkboard. A few high-tops. A long communal table. The cellar is twenty feet from your stool.

This is the kind of brewery your friend who used to live in Bend, Oregon will recognize immediately. It’s the kind of brewery the Everett craft beer community has quietly defended for years. And as of April 2026, with At Large Brewing closing its doors at the end of March, Lazy Boy is one of the few Everett breweries left where the operation is small enough that the person pulling your beer probably also helped brew it.

The Address, Hours, and How to Find It

Where: 715 100th Street SE, Suite A1, Everett, WA 98208. The complex is set back from the road behind a parking lot. Drive to the back. Suite A1 is in the far corner. The sign is small. Trust the map pin.

Hours: Wednesday 3pm–9pm, Thursday 3pm–9pm, Friday 3pm–9pm, Saturday 3pm–9pm. Closed Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday.

Phone: (425) 423-7700.

The hours are the part most first-timers get wrong. This is not a Tuesday brewery. This is not a noon brewery. Lazy Boy keeps a working brewer’s schedule — they brew during the day and they open the taproom in the late afternoon. If you show up at 1pm on a Sunday you will be standing in an empty parking lot.

The Beer: Nine on Tap, Including Taproom-Only Pours

Lazy Boy keeps a rotating tap list anchored by their flagships and topped up with seasonal and one-off pours that don’t leave the taproom. The flagship lineup runs the standard Pacific Northwest deck: an IPA, a hefeweizen, a Belgian, a porter, plus seasonals that lean toward the brewer’s curiosity rather than chasing a national trend.

What to order on your first visit:

• The IPA, on the flagship board. Classic Pacific Northwest hop bill, well-attenuated, drinkable. If you want to know the brewery, start here.
• The hefeweizen. Banana-and-clove yeast character without the syrupy weight some PNW hefes carry. A great introduction beer for someone who thinks they “don’t like wheat beers.”
• Whatever the seasonal is. It’s the most likely beer to surprise you and the most likely beer to be gone next month.
• A taster flight. The taproom serves four-pour flights that get you across the lineup for less than the price of two pints.

To-go is a real part of the model. Growlers and 32-oz crowlers are available, and they’re priced fairly compared to grabbing four-packs at the grocery store. If you have a friend coming over for dinner Saturday, this is your stop on the way home.

The Programming Is What Makes Lazy Boy Different

The thing that distinguishes Lazy Boy from the bigger Everett breweries isn’t the beer. The beer is good. The beer is reliably good. What sets Lazy Boy apart is what they do with the room when there isn’t a brewing shift running.

• Thursday trivia. The most consistent weeknight programming in the south Everett brewery scene. Teams of four to six. Questions that lean local. The regulars are friendly to newcomers and they will absolutely beat you the first three times you try.
• Saturday live music. Local acts, mostly acoustic, mostly singer-songwriter-leaning. The room sounds better than you’d expect a concrete-floored industrial space to sound. They keep the volume at a level where you can actually have a conversation.
• Once-a-month Friday line dancing. This is not a joke. It is exactly what it sounds like. It rotates onto the calendar once a month and the regulars treat it as a real holiday. If you want to see Everett at its weirdest and most committed, find out which Friday and show up.
• Occasional yoga. Yoga in a brewery is a Pacific Northwest tradition at this point and Lazy Boy runs sessions when the schedule allows.

None of this is on a glossy event calendar. Most of it lives on the chalkboard at the door and on Lazy Boy’s social feeds. That’s part of the charm — and part of what keeps the taproom feeling like a community room rather than a tourist stop.

The Crowd

Lazy Boy on a Thursday evening is the most accurate cross-section of working-age Everett you’ll find anywhere in the city. There are construction guys still in their hoodies. There are nurses off shift. There are couples on a low-key date. There are dads who picked up the kids from soccer and brought them along (yes, the taproom is family-friendly until 8pm, and the line dancing crowd treats kids like part of the show). There are no Boeing engineers performing being craft beer connoisseurs. There are people drinking beer they like in a brewery they like.

That’s a different vibe than Scuttlebutt’s polished waterfront restaurant model and a different vibe than Sound to Summit’s marina taproom. Both of those are great rooms. Lazy Boy is the third option, and it’s the one that scratches a different itch.

Why Lazy Boy Matters More After At Large’s Closure

Everett’s brewery scene took a real hit when At Large Brewing announced its closure and shut down at the end of March 2026 after a multi-year run on Marine View Drive. At Large was the closest thing Everett had to a small, working-class waterfront brewery, and its absence opens a hole that the bigger taprooms can’t quite fill.

Lazy Boy is the obvious place that fills part of it. Different geography — south Everett, not the waterfront — but the same operational ethos. Small. Working. Owner-operator visible. Beer made by the people serving it. If At Large was your weeknight brewery, Lazy Boy is now the spiritual successor in town. It’s been there the whole time, doing the same thing, on a different street.

That’s the kind of news the Everett craft beer community quietly absorbs and rallies around. It’s also a quiet plug for everyone who liked having multiple small operators in town: this is when you support them. Show up on a slow Wednesday. Buy the four-pour flight. Take a crowler home. The breweries that survive are the ones whose taprooms still feel busy on the days when nobody else is showing up.

How to Spend an Evening at Lazy Boy

• Arrive at 3:30pm. Beat the after-work crowd. The taproom is calmest in the first half-hour after open.
• Start with a flight. Get the lay of the land. Pick a favorite. Order a pint of the favorite next.
• Order the seasonal. Don’t leave without trying whatever the brewer has running this month.
• Bring a friend or three. The communal table is built for it.
• Take a crowler home. The to-go pricing is fair and your future self will thank you.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Lazy Boy Brewing in Everett?

Lazy Boy Brewing is at 715 100th St SE, Suite A1, Everett, WA 98208 — in the back corner of an industrial complex south of Highway 526.

What are Lazy Boy Brewing’s hours?

Wednesday through Saturday, 3pm to 9pm. The taproom is closed Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday.

Can you buy beer to go from Lazy Boy?

Yes. Growlers and 32-oz crowlers are available to take home, plus kegs. To-go is priced reasonably compared to grocery store four-packs.

Is Lazy Boy Brewing kid-friendly?

Yes, until evening hours. The taproom welcomes kids in the early evening; check current policy for the live music nights.

What kind of beer does Lazy Boy make?

The flagship lineup includes an IPA, a hefeweizen, a Belgian, a porter, and rotating seasonal and taproom-only specials. Nine beers on tap at any given time.

Does Lazy Boy serve food?

Lazy Boy doesn’t run a full kitchen, but they often have food trucks parked outside on Friday and Saturday evenings. You’re also welcome to bring food in or have it delivered.

What events does Lazy Boy Brewing host?

Trivia on Thursdays, live music on Saturdays, line dancing once a month on Fridays, and occasional yoga sessions. Programming is announced on Lazy Boy’s social channels and the taproom chalkboard.

Is Lazy Boy a good alternative to At Large Brewing?

For Everett locals who lost their favorite small waterfront brewery when At Large closed at the end of March 2026, Lazy Boy is the closest match in operational ethos — small, owner-operator, working brewery with a taproom attached. The geography is different (south Everett, not the waterfront) but the vibe is similar.

Quick answer: Casa El Dorado Mexican Handcrafts & Tortillas is at 205 E Casino Rd, Suite B12, Everett, WA 98208 — the same Casino Marketplace strip that holds Birrieria Tijuana and Pho To Liem. They run a working tortilleria where corn and flour tortillas come off the line all day, sold by the kilo to take home or used in the breakfast burritos, tamales, and tacos at the counter. Hours: Monday–Friday, roughly 8:30am–8pm. Phone: (425) 265-1186. The tortillas are the reason to go. Everything else is the reason to stay.

The Casino Road Tortilleria Most of Everett Doesn’t Know About

If you live on the Casino Road side of Everett you already know what we’re talking about. If you don’t, here’s the headline: there’s a working tortilla factory inside the Casino Marketplace strip mall at 205 E Casino Rd, and the people running it are quietly the reason a lot of Everett’s best Mexican food tastes the way it does. Casa El Dorado isn’t trying to be discovered by Yelp. It already does just fine. But it deserves to be on every Everett food lover’s short list, and somehow it’s still mostly known to the people who live within a mile of it.

The strip itself is its own story. Suite B19 is Birrieria Tijuana, the Tijuana-style quesabirria spot we covered earlier this month. Suite B12 is Casa El Dorado. Walk past Birrieria, keep going, and you’ll find a counter, a small dining room, a few tables, and — if you tilt your head right — a glass partition into the back where a tortilla machine is running. That machine is the whole point. That’s why you came.

The Tortillas Are the Move

You can buy them by the kilo, fresh and warm, and they will change what you think a tortilla is supposed to taste like if your only frame of reference is the supermarket bag. Corn tortillas come off the line with the right level of pliability — they fold without cracking and they hold a taco filling without dissolving. The flour tortillas are softer and more buttery than what most Everett kitchens use, and they’re the reason a Casa El Dorado breakfast burrito eats differently than a breakfast burrito from anywhere else on Casino Road.

Pricing is the part that catches first-time visitors off guard. A kilo of fresh tortillas costs less than a single fancy coffee at most downtown shops. Bring cash to make it easier on the front counter, although they take cards.

Pro tip: if you’re hosting a taco night, call ahead and order them by the kilo for pickup the same day. Don’t try to keep them more than 48 hours. They’re alive in the way fresh bread is alive — they’re meant to be eaten now, not stored.

What to Order from the Kitchen

The menu is short, which is the right call. Casa El Dorado isn’t trying to compete with the full-service Mexican restaurants on Evergreen Way. They’re a tortilleria with a kitchen attached, and the kitchen plays to its strength: anything that puts the tortilla front and center.

• The breakfast burrito. The flour tortilla makes the sandwich. Eggs, potatoes, cheese, your choice of meat. Add their salsa verde. This is your weekend morning order.
• Tacos al pastor. Two corn tortillas, double-stacked the right way, with the meat and the onion-cilantro topping that doesn’t try to do too much.
• Tamales. Made on-site, sold individually or by the half-dozen. Get a half-dozen mixed for the week. Reheat them in the oven, not the microwave.
• Whatever salsa they have on the counter. The salsas are not corporate-balanced for a national palate. They are made for tacos and they are made for tortillas and they will sit you down.

The Handcrafts Side of the Operation

The “Mexican Handcrafts” half of the name is real, not decorative. The shop also stocks imported handcrafts — the kind of pottery and hand-painted pieces you’d otherwise have to drive to the international district in Seattle to find. It’s a small selection. It’s not the reason most people go. But if you’ve been looking for an actually-imported piece for a kitchen or a gift, it’s here, and it’s priced fairly.

Why This Matters for Everett

Casino Road is the most diverse neighborhood in Everett, full stop. It’s also the part of the city that gets written about least, gets covered most carelessly when it does get written about, and supports a food scene that the rest of Everett’s food media largely ignores. Casa El Dorado is a working immigrant-run business that has been part of that food scene for a long time, and the fact that it doesn’t have a flashy website or a big social presence isn’t a flaw — it’s a feature of how a real neighborhood food economy works.

The thing we keep saying about Casino Road is true here too: this is some of the best food in Snohomish County, and it’s hiding in plain sight in strip malls because the strip malls were what was affordable in the era when these owners opened their businesses. Casa El Dorado has been making fresh tortillas for years. Birrieria Tijuana opened next door more recently and got the local press attention. Pho To Liem keeps the Vietnamese pho game honest a few doors down. The whole Casino Marketplace plaza is a food hall in disguise. The only thing missing is the name on the door.

How to Use Casa El Dorado in Your Week

If you cook at home, here’s the rotation that works:

• Monday: Pick up a kilo of corn tortillas and a quart of salsa verde. Build tacos from whatever you have in the fridge.
• Wednesday: Pick up a half-dozen tamales for lunch leftovers through Friday.
• Saturday morning: Drive over for the breakfast burrito and eat it in the parking lot. Trust us.

If you don’t cook at home, the tortillas still belong in your life. They make a difference in any sandwich, any wrap, any grain bowl that needs a side. Replacing your supermarket flour tortillas with Casa El Dorado’s flour tortillas is the cheapest and most underrated kitchen upgrade in Everett.

Practical Notes Before You Go

• Address: 205 E Casino Rd, Suite B12, Everett, WA 98208 (Casino Marketplace plaza).
• Hours: Monday–Friday, roughly 8:30am–8pm. Hours can shift seasonally — call ahead on holidays.
• Phone: (425) 265-1186.
• Parking: The strip mall lot is free and usually has space. Park toward the south end of the plaza.
• Cash or card: Both accepted. Cash moves the line faster.
• Best time to visit: Mid-morning weekday for the tortilla pickup; weekend mornings for the breakfast burrito. Lunch hours fill up with the local regulars and that’s the right vibe.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Casa El Dorado in Everett?

Casa El Dorado Mexican Handcrafts & Tortillas is at 205 E Casino Rd, Suite B12, Everett, WA 98208, in the Casino Marketplace plaza on Casino Road.

Can you buy tortillas to take home from Casa El Dorado?

Yes. Fresh corn and flour tortillas are sold by the kilo at the front counter. They’re made on-site throughout the day.

What are Casa El Dorado’s hours?

Monday through Friday, roughly 8:30am to 8pm. Hours can shift on holidays — calling ahead at (425) 265-1186 is recommended.

Is Casa El Dorado a restaurant or a store?

Both. It’s a working tortilla factory with a kitchen and small dining counter. They serve breakfast burritos, tacos, tamales, and other handheld Mexican fare made with their own fresh tortillas, and they sell tortillas, salsas, and Mexican handcrafts retail.

What should you order at Casa El Dorado?

The breakfast burrito on the flour tortilla is the standout. The tamales are made on-site and sell out fast. The tacos al pastor are a reliable lunch order. And a kilo of fresh tortillas to take home is the best $5 spend on Casino Road.

Is Casa El Dorado kid-friendly?

Yes. The dining counter is small but the food is approachable, the staff is friendly, and the tamales are a kid-tested win.

What other restaurants are in the same strip mall?

Casino Marketplace at 205 E Casino Rd is also home to Birrieria Tijuana (Suite B19), serving Tijuana-style quesabirria, and Pho To Liem (next door at 209 E Casino Rd) for Vietnamese pho. The whole plaza is a hidden food hall.

Quick answer: The Muse Whiskey & Coffee is a coffee shop by day and a whiskey bar by night, tucked inside the historic 1923 Weyerhaeuser Building at 615 Millwright Loop W on Everett’s waterfront. It opened in July 2023 after a multi-year restoration of the timber baron’s old headquarters. Coffee runs Mon–Thu 8am–4pm, Fri–Sun 8am–3:30pm; the bar runs Mon–Thu 5pm–10pm, Fri–Sat 4pm–11pm, Sun 4pm–10pm. The space is the most architecturally significant café in Everett, and it’s not even close.

Why The Muse Doesn’t Feel Like Anywhere Else in Everett

We’ve spent enough time in Everett’s coffee scene to tell you most of it lives in a familiar template: ex-Starbucks layout, mid-century chairs, indie roaster bag on display, decent latte. We love that template. But every once in a while you walk into a café and the building itself is the story, and the coffee is just the reason you’re allowed to be inside it. The Muse Whiskey & Coffee is that café.

It lives inside the 1923 Weyerhaeuser Office Building, the timber baron’s three-story headquarters at the foot of Hewitt that sat empty for years while the rest of the waterfront got reborn around it. The Port of Everett, working with the NGMA Group, restored the building and held a ribbon-cutting on July 12, 2023 — a hundred years and change after the doors first opened. The Muse moved into the ground floor and immediately became the one Everett address you can take an out-of-town friend to and just say “wait, watch this” as you push the door open.

The Address, Hours, and How to Find It

Where: 615 Millwright Loop W, Everett, WA 98201 — at the south end of Waterfront Place, set back from the marina behind the parking deck.

Coffee hours: Monday–Thursday 8am–4pm, Friday–Sunday 8am–3:30pm.

Bar hours: Monday–Thursday 5pm–10pm, Friday–Saturday 4pm–11pm, Sunday 4pm–10pm.

Phone: (425) 322-4648.

Parking is the one thing locals get wrong on their first visit. Don’t try to park curbside on Millwright — the loop is narrow and the spaces fill up. Use the big public deck behind the building and walk in from the back. It’s a 30-second walk and the view of the marina from the upper deck is worth the rerouting on its own.

The Coffee Side: What to Order Before 4pm

The morning program at The Muse leans careful and grown-up rather than third-wave-experimental. The espresso pulls clean. The drip is held to temperature. The milk steaming is the part most Everett shops still get wrong, and The Muse gets it right — microfoam that actually integrates instead of sitting on top of the cup like a pillow. If you’re a flat white person, this is your room.

Three orders that work every time:

• The flat white. Six ounces, double shot, full-fat milk steamed to about 140°F. The most reliable order on the bar.
• The cortado. If you want the espresso forward but don’t want to fight a 16-ounce latte, this is the move.
• Drip + a small bite. They keep a small pastry case running. The morning bake doesn’t pretend to be a Parisian patisserie. It just gets the ratio of sugar-to-flake right.

Bring a laptop on a Wednesday morning and you’ll find a quiet upstairs corner with real chairs, real outlets, and the kind of natural light that makes a Zoom call look professional without effort. It’s better than working from your kitchen and it’s better than working from most of Everett’s other cafés.

The Whiskey Side: What Happens After 5pm

This is the part that makes The Muse one-of-one. At 5pm the espresso machine quiets down, the lights dim, and the room transforms into a speakeasy-style whiskey bar with a curated cocktail program, small bites, and what is unambiguously the best whiskey shelf in Snohomish County.

Reservations are recommended Thursday through Saturday. The bar takes them through the website. Walk-ins are welcome but the bar is not large — figure 25 seats including the high-tops in the back room.

The cocktail menu rotates seasonally. The standing greats: a smoked old-fashioned that uses a torched cedar plank under the glass cover, a manhattan made with rye that earns its rye, and a house Vesper that’s better than the one you remember from somewhere fancier. They also keep a non-alcoholic cocktail list that doesn’t taste like a juice box, which means The Muse is also one of the few Everett bars where a sober friend is a whole guest, not a logistics problem.

Monday Prohibition Nights are the move if you want to see what makes The Muse different. First-come, first-served, no reservations, no traditional menu. You sit down, the bartender asks what you like, and you go from there. It’s the closest thing Everett has to the speakeasy experience the building’s architecture is winking at.

The Building Is Half the Story

The Weyerhaeuser Office Building is on the National Register of Historic Places. It was designed by Bebb and Gould in 1923 and it’s the only surviving structure of what was once one of the largest sawmill operations on the West Coast. The exterior is brick and terra cotta, the interior is original wood with restored beams, and the staircase up to the second floor is the kind of thing that makes you take a photo whether you wanted to or not.

Most coffee shops in 100-year-old buildings have removed the building’s personality. The Muse went the other direction — they leaned in, kept the millwork, kept the windows, kept the proportions, and let the new bar program speak the building’s language instead of fighting it.

Who The Muse Is For

It’s for anyone in Everett who has a friend visiting from Seattle, Portland, or Vancouver and you want to make a point about what Everett has actually become. It’s for the work-from-home professional who needs a non-residential desk twice a week and is willing to drive to the waterfront for it. It’s for the date-night crowd that wants somewhere distinctive without having to drive to Pike Place. And it’s for the local who has lived here for twenty years and never set foot inside the Weyerhaeuser Building because it sat empty their whole adult life.

Will you find a faster latte five blocks away at Narrative? Yes. Will you find a more ambitious cocktail program at a hotel bar in Belltown? Sure. The Muse isn’t trying to win on either axis individually. It’s trying to win on the axis where the room and the drink and the hour of the day and the building’s history all add up to one experience you can’t get anywhere else in this county. On that axis, it wins.

What to Order, in Order

• Morning: Flat white + the morning bake, upstairs by the windows.
• Afternoon: Cortado + a notebook, downstairs at a two-top.
• Evening: Smoked old-fashioned + a small bite, the back room.
• Special occasion: Monday Prohibition Night, no menu, let the bar drive.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where is The Muse Whiskey & Coffee located in Everett?

The Muse is at 615 Millwright Loop W, Everett, WA 98201, on the ground floor of the historic 1923 Weyerhaeuser Office Building at Waterfront Place.

What are The Muse’s hours?

Coffee runs Monday–Thursday 8am–4pm and Friday–Sunday 8am–3:30pm. The bar runs Monday–Thursday 5pm–10pm, Friday–Saturday 4pm–11pm, and Sunday 4pm–10pm.

Do you need a reservation at The Muse?

No reservation is needed for coffee service or for walk-in bar seating, but reservations are recommended Thursday–Saturday evenings. Mondays are reservation-free Prohibition Nights.

Is there parking at The Muse?

Yes — use the public parking deck directly behind the building. Curbside parking on Millwright Loop is limited.

When did The Muse open?

The Muse opened in July 2023 after a multi-year restoration of the Weyerhaeuser Office Building, which itself was completed in 1923 and is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Is The Muse good for working from a laptop?

Yes. The upstairs has natural light, real outlets, and quiet enough acoustics for a Zoom call. It’s one of Everett’s better remote-work coffee shops if you want a non-residential desk for a few hours.

What kind of food does The Muse serve?

Coffee service includes pastries from the morning bake. The evening bar program includes small bites designed to pair with the cocktail and whiskey list. It’s not a full dinner restaurant — plan accordingly.

Q: What is the Beverly Food Truck Park in Everett?
A: Beverly Food Truck Park is a rotating food truck lot at 6731 Beverly Boulevard, across from Fire Station 5 in central Everett, open Monday through Saturday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Two to four trucks rotate nightly — current regulars include Mexicuban (Mexican-Cuban fusion), Tabassum (Central Asian street food), and Zaytoona (Mediterranean). Rated 4.8 stars. Cash-friendly, casual, kid-friendly.

The Beverly Food Truck Park Is Quietly the Best Weeknight Dinner Play in Central Everett

Here is an Everett food fact that is not nearly well-known enough outside the immediate neighborhood: there is a permanent food truck lot at 6731 Beverly Boulevard, it runs Monday through Saturday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., and on any given weeknight it is serving some of the most interesting food in the city — at food-truck prices, from a rotating lineup of two to four trucks, in a gravel lot across from Fire Station 5.

This is the Beverly Food Truck Park. Locals have been on it since it opened. If you have not been, this is your reminder that it exists and that weeknight dinner in Everett does not have to mean the same three delivery options.

Where it is and how it works

The address is 6731 Beverly Boulevard, Everett, WA 98203. The lot is central Everett — not the waterfront, not Casino Road, not downtown — in the stretch of Beverly that runs through residential neighborhoods near Forest Park. What used to be an unused city lot across from Fire Station 5 got converted into a proper food truck park with room for multiple rigs, some picnic tables, and enough parking that you will not circle the block.

Operating hours are Monday through Saturday, 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Closed Sundays. The truck lineup rotates day by day, which is the both-feet-of-the-model: you are not getting the same two trucks every Tuesday. If you want to know who is parked tonight, StreetFoodFinder tracks the park’s schedule.

Two to four trucks rotate through the lot on any given night. The rotation leans toward independent, owner-operated trucks, and it has attracted a lineup that is arguably more diverse than any sit-down restaurant row in the city.

Who is actually cooking at Beverly

The trucks on rotation change, but these are three of the regulars worth learning by name:

Mexicuban

Mexican and Cuban fusion — the only truck in the Puget Sound region running that specific lane. If you have never had a Cubano made by people who also make al pastor, this is the entry point. The medianoche sandwich is a standing order. Prices run the usual food-truck range: sandwich and a side under $15.

Tabassum

This is the find. Tabassum brings authentic Central Asian street food to the Pacific Northwest — the only truck doing it, per their own billing, and the track record at Beverly backs that up. The specialty is samsa, a flaky hand pie with seasoned meat filling, baked, not fried. Central Asian comfort food that Everett does not otherwise have a source for.

Zaytoona

Mediterranean — operating since 2015, one of the longer-running trucks in the Puget Sound rotation. Lamb and beef gyro salad, Arabic shawarma sandwich, falafel done well. This is the truck to hit if someone in your group is gluten-free or vegetarian and needs options that are not afterthoughts.

Why Beverly works where other food truck spots do not

Everett’s food truck scene exists in pieces. Friday lunches at the Port of Everett. Occasional meetups at Boxcar Park. Brewery takeovers at Scuttlebutt and At Large. Each of those is good. None of them are a reliable weeknight-dinner answer, because they are intermittent — one-off events or limited lunch windows.

Beverly is the permanent piece. Six nights a week. Same location. Rotating lineup. The schedule is consistent enough that you can tell out-of-towners “meet me at the food truck park at 5:30” and know it will be there. That is rare in a food truck economy built on pop-ups and event rotations.

The second thing Beverly does right: it sits in a residential pocket. Neighbors walk over. Kids come. Fire Station 5’s crew walks across the street when they are between calls. The park has the feel of a neighborhood dinner that happens to involve four kitchens on wheels, not a food truck festival. That is the difference between a spot that lasts and a spot that fades after a summer.

What to expect on your first visit

• Parking is easy — the lot holds customer cars and the trucks. No struggle.
• Seating is picnic tables. Bring a jacket; central Everett evenings are cool even in summer.
• Payment varies by truck. Most take cards. Bring a little cash as a backup.
• Dietary options depend on who is parked. Zaytoona is the reliable vegetarian and gluten-free bet. Mexicuban and Tabassum both have options but fewer.
• Kid-friendly yes. Bring them. It is an outdoor eat-with-your-hands situation, which is the best kind with kids.
• Dog-friendly leashed dogs are the standard at outdoor food truck spots. Check with the individual truck if unsure.

The Beverly move, scheduled

If you are trying to actually incorporate Beverly into your week, here is the play:

Monday or Tuesday: Low-key dinner after the gym. The 4 p.m. open means you can eat early and be home before 6. No wait.

Wednesday or Thursday: Bring a friend who has never been. Split two trucks so you get to try both.

Friday: Hit Beverly at 4:30 before the sun drops. Grab dinner. Then go to a brewery for a post-dinner beer at Scuttlebutt or At Large. This is the best compact weeknight routine in central Everett.

Saturday: Late afternoon is the social window. More foot traffic, more energy, and the 7 p.m. close means you are not stuck in a dinner situation that runs into your evening.

What Beverly is not

It is not a sit-down restaurant. It is not open past 7 p.m. It is not open Sundays. If you want table service, a server, or a dinner that runs two hours, go somewhere else. If you want some of the most interesting, cheapest, most diverse food in Everett on a Tuesday night, in a gravel lot with picnic tables, this is the spot.

The verdict

The Beverly Food Truck Park is the kind of neighborhood amenity that makes central Everett feel like a place that takes care of its weeknights. Three hours a night, six nights a week, two to four independent trucks, the only Mexican-Cuban truck in the region, the only Central Asian street food truck in the region, the most reliable gyro in south-central Everett — all at one address. Go tonight if it is before 7 p.m. Go this week if it is not. The 4.8-star rating is not by accident.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where is the Beverly Food Truck Park?

6731 Beverly Boulevard, Everett, WA 98203, across from Fire Station 5 in central Everett.

What are the hours?

Monday through Saturday, 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Closed Sundays.

How many trucks are usually there?

Two to four trucks rotate through the park nightly. The lineup changes day by day.

Which trucks are regulars?

Mexicuban (Mexican-Cuban fusion), Tabassum (Central Asian street food, specializing in samsa), and Zaytoona (Mediterranean — lamb and beef gyro salad, shawarma, falafel) are three of the most consistent regulars.

Is there parking and seating?

Yes. The lot has customer parking alongside the trucks, and picnic tables for outdoor seating.

Is it kid-friendly?

Yes. Outdoor seating, casual atmosphere, and enough truck variety that picky eaters have options.

How do I know which trucks are there tonight?

Check StreetFoodFinder’s Beverly Park page or the park’s social media for the nightly lineup.

Is there Wi-Fi or indoor seating?

No. Beverly is outdoor only. Bring a jacket; central Everett evenings run cool.

Does Beverly do private events?

The park is a public food truck lot. For private events or truck bookings, contact the trucks directly through their own channels.

Q: Is The Loft Coffee Bar on Hewitt Avenue worth a visit?
A: Yes. The Loft Coffee Bar at 1309 Hewitt Avenue in downtown Everett pours Vinaccio’s fair-trade organic coffee, roasted in Monroe, in a space built around fireplaces, armchairs, a bookable meeting room, and fast Wi-Fi. Open Monday through Thursday 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., Friday and Saturday 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Order the Cuban cafecito or the “Joe shooter” — the house layered drink.

The Loft Coffee Bar Is the Downtown Everett Coffee Shop Built for People Who Actually Have to Get Work Done

Downtown Everett has enough coffee shops now that you can get genuinely particular about which one you give your $6 a morning to. STRGZR does scratch breakfast. Narrative does third-wave bean-nerd pours. Sobar does community vibes. Makario does roasting on site. All great.

But if what you actually need is a place to sit for four hours with a laptop, a real sandwich, an outlet, fast Wi-Fi, and maybe a fireplace and an armchair, the answer on Hewitt Avenue right now is The Loft Coffee Bar. And it has been the answer for longer than most new arrivals in downtown Everett know.

Who owns The Loft Coffee Bar?

Tim and Devyn Gunn opened The Loft in 2016 with a soft launch on a Thursday in December and an official grand opening that Saturday. They pour Vinaccio’s Coffee, a fair-trade organic roaster out of Monroe, which means your pour-over is coming from beans that traveled about 25 miles to get to your cup.

The shop sits at 1309 Hewitt Avenue, in the stretch of downtown that has spent the last few years quietly filling up with condos, new restaurants, and exactly the kind of remote-work population who needs a third place that is not their apartment.

The address, hours, and what’s actually in the space

The Loft’s hours are worth memorizing because they do not match other downtown coffee shops:

• Monday–Thursday: 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.
• Friday–Saturday: 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Sunday: 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Those Friday and Saturday 5 p.m. hours are the move. Very few downtown coffee shops stay open past mid-afternoon on weekends, which means The Loft quietly becomes the only place in walking distance of Hewitt where you can still get a real espresso at 4 p.m. on a Saturday.

The space itself is what separates The Loft from everything else on the avenue. You walk in and there is a fireplace, actual armchairs that are built for sinking into, a bookable meeting room for small groups, and high-quality Wi-Fi that does not quit when the afternoon rush hits. It reads as residential rather than industrial, which is rare in a downtown coffee shop scene that tends to default to exposed brick and hanging Edison bulbs.

What to order at The Loft Coffee Bar

The menu has two signature drinks that are worth ordering by name:

• The “Joe shooter.” A proprietary layered drink the Gunns developed. Worth ordering the first time just to see what it is. The layering is the point.
• Cuban cafecito. Brown sugar packed into the portafilter with the espresso shot. Sweet, concentrated, finished in one sip. The best dollar-per-caffeine drink in the shop.

Beyond the signatures, the drink menu is the full espresso-bar standard — lattes, cortados, Americanos, pour-overs — all on Vinaccio beans. The food menu is where The Loft sneaks up on people: organic salads, baked goods, real sandwiches. You can eat lunch here. You can also, and this is the distinguishing move, have a glass of wine or a beer or cider on tap. The Loft pivots from coffee shop to evening hang on Fridays and Saturdays without making a production of it.

Why The Loft is the remote-work winner on Hewitt

If you are working from your apartment and you cannot look at the same kitchen table one more afternoon, the calculus in downtown Everett right now is roughly:

• Sobar Coffee on Colby has the widest open floor plan, clean-ingredient drinks, and a community-cafe feel. Best for solo focus work.
• STRGZR on Hoyt and Hewitt has scratch food and a tight, stylish room. Best for a working breakfast.
• Narrative on Wetmore is the serious coffee room. Best for when the coffee is the point.
• The Loft on Hewitt has the armchairs, the fireplace, the bookable meeting room, beer and wine, and hours that run later on the weekend. Best for long sessions and small meetings.

The Loft wins on duration. Four hours in an armchair by a fireplace reading a novel, or grinding through a deck, is what this room is for. And when your meeting runs past 3 p.m. on a Friday and you suddenly want a beer, the answer does not require leaving.

What to watch for

The Loft does not have the foot-traffic volume of STRGZR or Narrative, which means weekday afternoons can be almost empty. That is a feature. It also means the shop’s evening activity on Friday and Saturday has room to grow as downtown Everett’s condo population keeps expanding. If you have been looking for the Hewitt Avenue spot that is not a bar but also is not just a coffee shop, this is it.

The meeting room is the unsung hero. Call ahead to book it. Four to six people, reasonable rates, better than a conference room in a coworking space and nowhere near the price of one.

The verdict

The Loft Coffee Bar has been a downtown Everett fixture since 2016 and it still gets undercovered because it does not lead with food or coffee-nerd credentials. What it leads with is a room. A real one, with a fireplace, with armchairs that get sat in, with the best Wi-Fi on Hewitt Avenue, and with a weekend closing time that lets you actually stay. That is the play. Go on a Saturday afternoon. Get the Cuban cafecito. Stay for a glass of cider. The room does the rest.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where is The Loft Coffee Bar?

1309 Hewitt Avenue, Everett, WA 98201, on the stretch of downtown Hewitt between Colby and Rockefeller.

What are the hours?

Monday–Thursday 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., Friday–Saturday 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Do they have Wi-Fi and outlets for remote work?

Yes. Fast Wi-Fi, outlets throughout the space, armchairs and tables for long sessions, and a bookable meeting room for small groups.

Do they serve beer and wine?

Yes. The Loft pours beer and cider on tap and serves wine, alongside a full espresso bar and food menu.

What coffee do they use?

Vinaccio’s Coffee, a fair-trade organic roaster based in Monroe, Washington.

Who owns The Loft?

Tim and Devyn Gunn, who opened the shop in December 2016.

Can I book the meeting room?

Yes. Call the shop at (425) 212-9271 to reserve the meeting room for small groups.

Does The Loft serve food?

Yes. Organic salads, baked goods, breakfast items, and sandwiches — plus the signature “Joe shooter” layered drink and Cuban cafecito.

Is parking available?

Street parking along Hewitt and the side streets. The city’s downtown parking garages are a short walk away.

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Q: Is South Fork Baking Co. at the Port of Everett worth a visit?
A: Yes. Katherine Hillmann’s bakery at 1410 Seiner Drive, Suite 103, serves scratch-made pastries, locally roasted espresso, and breakfast and lunch sandwiches on the Port of Everett Marina esplanade — with covered and open-air patio seating facing Port Gardner Bay. Open Monday through Friday 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. and weekends 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The jalapeño cheddar bagel and the blueberry pistachio scone are the move.

South Fork Baking Co. on the Everett Waterfront Is the Bakery Everyone Forgets to Tell You About

Go to the Port of Everett on a Saturday morning and you will hear three conversations about the rooftop deck at Tapped Public House, two about whether Marina Azul is actually open yet, and approximately zero about the small bakery tucked into the ground floor of the waterfront residences that has been quietly outbaking everyone on the esplanade since it opened its retail storefront there.

That bakery is South Fork Baking Co., and if you have not made the walk from the parking structure past the fountain to Seiner Drive, Suite 103, this weekend is a good time to do it.

Who is behind South Fork Baking Co.?

South Fork is owner-operator Katherine Hillmann’s project. She has been running South Fork Baking Co. since 2016 and spent more than a decade in the kitchens of regional bakeries before opening her first retail storefront on the Port of Everett’s waterfront. The Waterfront Place shop is the retail expression of a wholesale and pop-up operation that had built a following long before the door on Seiner Drive opened.

What you get now is a full pastry case baked in-house every morning, a working espresso bar, breakfast and lunch sandwiches, and — this is the part the locals actually talk about — a schedule for pastry and cake-decorating classes that Hillmann runs out of the shop.

The address, hours, and how to actually find it

The shop is at 1410 Seiner Drive, Suite 103, Everett, WA 98201, which sounds clear until you are standing in the Waterfront Place garage trying to figure out which set of townhomes houses a bakery. Here is the shortcut: park in the Fisherman’s Harbor parking structure, walk toward the marina esplanade, and follow the smell of butter. The storefront faces the esplanade with indoor dining, a covered patio, and open-air seating.

Hours are Monday through Friday 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Parking is easy — the Port’s garage is right there, and the morning rush has not hit volume that crowds the esplanade tables. Yet.

What to order at South Fork Baking Co.

The menu rotates, but the standing order for anyone walking in cold should be this:

• Jalapeño cheddar bagel. Dense crumb, real heat, real cheese crust. It holds up to the bagel-with-egg treatment and is the best $7 breakfast on the waterfront right now.
• Blueberry pistachio scone. Crumbly the way a scone should be. Not dry. The pistachio is actually pistachio, not a rumor.
• Cinnamon roll. Worth ordering early. They sell out before 10 a.m. on Saturdays.
• Caprese sandwich. The lunch move. Fresh mozzarella, tomato, basil, on bread baked that morning. It is not complicated food. That is the point.

The espresso bar pours a clean shot. Not the best coffee on the Everett waterfront — that is a different conversation — but more than good enough to pair with a scone and a harbor view.

Why South Fork matters for Everett

The Port of Everett’s Waterfront Place has been racing to fill its retail bays for a couple of years now. The ones that get headlines are the splashy ones — Tapped, Fisherman Jack’s, The Net Shed. South Fork has the quieter, stickier kind of success: a neighborhood bakery on a marina with almost no neighborhood around it yet, making bread and coffee for the waterfront condo residents and the people who walk the Grand Avenue Park bridge down to the esplanade on weekends.

It is the kind of business a waterfront needs if it is going to be a waterfront people live on, not just visit. The Sawyer and Carling’s condo buildings next door are at near-full occupancy. The esplanade is quietly becoming a Saturday-morning destination for people in neighborhoods that used to think of the port as a boat parking lot. South Fork is feeding that shift one bagel at a time.

What South Fork is not

It is not a full brunch spot. The line is reasonable. The seating is limited at peak. If you want eggs benedict and a bloody mary at noon, walk one block to Tapped Public House or across to Fisherman Jack’s. If you want a jalapeño cheddar bagel with a real egg and a small Americano, eaten on a patio looking at a marina, this is the spot.

It also is not cheap in the way that a grocery-store bakery is cheap. Pastries run $4 to $7, sandwiches $12 to $15. You are paying for scratch baking on the Everett waterfront. That is the trade.

The class schedule is the sleeper move

Hillmann runs pastry and cake-decorating classes out of the storefront. This is not a gimmick. This is a working baker with more than a decade of technique who is willing to teach you how to not overwork croissant dough. If you have been looking for a weekend hobby that is not Jetty Island or the Grand Avenue Park bridge, the class list on the South Fork Baking Co. website is worth a look.

The verdict

South Fork Baking Co. is the anchor the Everett waterfront bakery scene needed and the one no one is talking about loudly enough. Go early on a Saturday. Get the jalapeño cheddar bagel. Walk out to the esplanade. Watch the boats. This is the kind of low-key, high-quality neighborhood bakery every waterfront should have, and Everett’s finally does.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where is South Fork Baking Co. located?

1410 Seiner Drive, Suite 103, Everett, WA 98201, on the Port of Everett’s Marina esplanade at Waterfront Place.

What are the hours?

Monday through Friday 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Is there parking?

Yes — use the Fisherman’s Harbor parking structure at the Port of Everett’s Waterfront Place. It is a short walk to the esplanade.

Who owns South Fork Baking Co.?

Owner-operator and head baker Katherine Hillmann, who has run South Fork Baking Co. since 2016. The Waterfront Place storefront is the brand’s first retail location.

Do they have gluten-free or vegan options?

The menu is scratch-baked and rotates daily. Call ahead at the number on southforkbaking.com to ask about current gluten-free and vegan items — availability varies.

Do they do special-order cakes?

Yes. Custom cakes and pastry orders can be placed through the South Fork Baking Co. website. Hillmann also teaches pastry and cake-decorating classes out of the storefront.

Is South Fork Baking Co. kid-friendly?

Yes. The patio and indoor seating both accommodate families, and the esplanade right outside the door is a good place for kids to decompress with a cinnamon roll.

What’s the best time to visit?

Weekday mornings before 9 a.m. for the quietest experience. Saturday mornings around 8 a.m. if you want the full waterfront-bakery vibe without waiting for pastries that sold out at 9:30.

Scuttlebutt Brewing and the Everett Animal Shelter’s Paws & Pints photo contest closed voting on April 17, 2026. The grand prize is a Scuttlebutt beer named after the winning dog, unveiled at a celebration party at the Scuttlebutt Taproom (3310 Cedar Street, Everett) with a food truck, swag, and a puppy playpen. The celebration date is forthcoming — keep an eye on Scuttlebutt’s channels.

Scuttlebutt’s Paws & Pints Is the Most Everett-Feeling Beer Promo of the Year

Here’s what happened. The Everett Animal Shelter partnered with Scuttlebutt Brewing on a fundraiser called Paws & Pints. People submitted photos of their dogs. Other people voted — at a dollar per vote — and the money went to the shelter. The grand prize? Scuttlebutt brews a beer, names it after the winning dog, and releases it at a celebration party at the taproom.

Voting closed on Friday, April 17 at 9:00 PM. Which means somewhere in Everett, right now, there is a dog about to get its own limited-release beer. And we are very much here for it.

The Basic Breakdown

Paws & Pints ran from March 27 to April 17, 2026. Dog owners uploaded photos of their dogs — “glamour shots,” basically — and friends, family, and strangers paid a dollar per vote to push favorite pups up the leaderboard. The top vote-getter wins the beer naming. The top five get prizes. Everyone’s dollars went to the Everett Animal Shelter.

In the list of reasons to live in Everett, “you can pay a dollar to get your dog a beer named after it” is a sneaky one.

Why This Promo Actually Matters

Breweries run dog-friendly events constantly. Most of them are the same: dog-friendly patio, dog-themed event name, maybe a rescue has a table set up. Scuttlebutt went further. The winner doesn’t just get a photo on a wall — they get an actual Scuttlebutt beer, in Scuttlebutt’s taproom, with Scuttlebutt’s name on it.

That’s the kind of community promo that only works when the brewery actually cares. Scuttlebutt has been an Everett institution for three decades. They’ve done major-league collabs, including the Big Dumper beer earlier this year with Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh. They could absolutely spend their marketing budget on bigger swings. They chose to spend a chunk of it on a fundraiser for the local animal shelter and a goofy, joyful promo for a stranger’s dog.

That says something about who Scuttlebutt is. That’s a brewery worth supporting.

The Prizes (and Why the Leash Is So Good)

The grand prize:

• A Scuttlebutt beer named after the winning dog, unveiled at a celebration party at the taproom
• A Scuttlebutt-branded dog leash autographed by Cal Raleigh, the Seattle Mariners catcher

The top five also get prizes. Details on the exact top-five prize package weren’t spelled out in the announcement, but the winner’s Cal Raleigh leash is the piece that made local news. Cal Raleigh’s autograph on a dog leash. Sold at literally no store, anywhere. Owned by one dog in Everett.

Scuttlebutt has been leaning into Mariners collabs all season. The Cal Raleigh tie-in for the Big Dumper beer and now this leash is a smart extension of a relationship they’ve clearly built deliberately.

When Is the Celebration Party?

As of this writing, the exact celebration party date has not been announced by Scuttlebutt. What organizers have confirmed:

• It’s at the Scuttlebutt Taproom (3310 Cedar Street, Everett — not the main brewery and restaurant at 1205 Craftsman Way on the waterfront)
• There will be giveaways
• There will be a Puppy Playpen
• There will be Scuttlebutt swag
• There will be a food truck on site
• And — critically — dogs are invited

For the exact date, watch Scuttlebutt’s Instagram (@scuttlebuttbrewing) and the Everett Animal Shelter’s channels. The announcement is likely to come in the weeks after voting closes, so late April through May is the realistic window.

Which Scuttlebutt Location Is the Taproom?

This trips people up, so let’s be clear. Scuttlebutt operates two Everett locations:

• Scuttlebutt Brewing Company restaurant & brewery — 1205 Craftsman Way, on the waterfront near the marina. This is the full restaurant.
• Scuttlebutt Taproom — 3310 Cedar Street. This is the smaller dedicated taproom where the celebration party is happening.

The Cedar Street taproom is the more intimate, taproom-first of the two. It’s set up for events, beer-first crowds, and dogs. If you’ve only ever been to the waterfront restaurant, the Cedar Street taproom is a different vibe and worth a visit for its own sake.

How to Prep for the Party

If you plan to go — and you should — here’s the prep list:

• Bring your dog, on a leash, well-behaved enough to be in a crowd
• Bring cash or card for the food truck (varies per event)
• Bring a tag with your dog’s name in case the leashes get mixed up at the playpen
• Budget for a flight — you’re going to want to try the new namesake beer, and flights let you pair it with a few others
• Plan for the Cedar Street taproom, not the waterfront restaurant

Arrive early if you can. Dog-centric events at Scuttlebutt tend to fill out fast, and the Puppy Playpen setup has capacity limits once things get busy.

The Bigger Point: Everett’s Brewery Scene Is Paying Attention

We’ve written a lot about Everett’s brewery trail this spring — the Sound to Summit taproom at the Marina, At Large Brewing on Marine View, U-Neek (formerly Crucible), and Scuttlebutt’s flagship. What makes the Everett brewery scene different from a lot of mid-size city brewery scenes is this exact kind of thing: local breweries doing promos that are genuinely for Everett, not imported playbooks from a Denver or a Portland.

Paws & Pints is a perfect example. It raises money for a specific Everett nonprofit. It partners with a Mariners player Everett has adopted as a local hero. It gives a real product to a real dog. It makes the Cedar Street taproom into a party.

That’s Everett-brand community building, run by a brewery that has been around long enough to know what that looks like.

The Bottom Line

Voting is closed. The winning dog is somewhere out there. In a few weeks, that dog’s name is going on a Scuttlebutt beer and the Cedar Street taproom is going to be full of dogs, food truck food, and people having the exact kind of Saturday you move to Everett for.

Watch Scuttlebutt’s channels for the party date. Bring your dog. Order the namesake beer. Pet every dog in the room. Scuttlebutt earned the loyalty.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Scuttlebutt’s Paws & Pints contest?

It’s a fundraiser for the Everett Animal Shelter. Dog owners submitted photos of their dogs, and the public voted at $1 per vote — all proceeds to the shelter. The top vote-getter wins a Scuttlebutt beer named after their dog, unveiled at a celebration party at the taproom.

When did Paws & Pints voting close?

Voting closed Friday, April 17, 2026 at 9:00 PM. The winner and celebration party date are expected to be announced in the weeks following.

Where is the Paws & Pints celebration party?

At the Scuttlebutt Taproom, 3310 Cedar Street, Everett — not the flagship brewery and restaurant on Craftsman Way.

What’s the grand prize?

A Scuttlebutt beer named after the winning dog, released at the celebration party, plus a Scuttlebutt-branded dog leash autographed by Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh.

Are dogs invited to the celebration party?

Yes. Dogs are explicitly invited. There will be a Puppy Playpen, food truck, swag, and giveaways at the event.

How do I find out the celebration party date?

Watch Scuttlebutt Brewing’s Instagram (@scuttlebuttbrewing) and the Everett Animal Shelter’s channels. The date is expected to be announced in late April or May 2026.

How does Scuttlebutt’s Paws & Pints compare to other brewery dog events?

Most brewery dog events offer dog-friendly patios and rescue tables. Paws & Pints goes further by committing an actual beer release, autographed memorabilia tied to a Seattle Mariners player, and substantial fundraising dollars to the Everett Animal Shelter. It’s one of the most genuinely community-integrated brewery promos in Snohomish County this year.