If you’re planning to keep it PhinneyWood local on this Seafair weekend by patronizing local businesses, it’ll be a great weather weekend to take advantage of outdoor seating.

Here is a (somewhat) exhaustive list of local cafes, eateries and drinkeries (?) that include some form of outdoor seating, from a few chairs, to spacious decks. What are your favorite local businesses with outdoor seating?

Coffee: Cafe Bambino, Caffe Vita, Diva Espresso, Fresh Flours, Herkimer, Makeda Coffee, Starbucks Coffee. 

Bars/Pubs: 74th Street Ale House, Bleachers Pub, Ed’s Kort Haus, El Chupacabra, Gainsbourg, In The Red Wine Bar & Cafe, Park Pub, Prost!, Sully’s Snowgoose Saloon, Wing Dome.

Food/Restaurants: Carmelita, Cornuto, Gaspare, Picnic, Red Mill Burgers,  Stumbling Goat Bistro, The Barking Dog, Wing Dome, Zeek’s Pizza.

Got any others you like that we’re missing? Any places you’d like to see have outdoor seating? Leave a comment.

Romio’s Pizza & Pasta at 8523 Greenwood Ave. N. officially changed its name to Razzi’s Pizzeria as of Jan. 1. We saw workers out today changing the sign.

Owner Amir Razzaghi told us last month that we was leaving the Romio’s franchise to “provide our customers with some requested and much anticipated changes.”

We finally got ’round to adding The Olive and Grape, 8516 Greenwood Ave. N., to our Food & Drink section, where you can read and post reviews, as well as rate local eating and drinking establishments.

The Olive and Grape replaced Olive You in Greenwood in September. Let us know of any other restaurants, drinking establishments and coffee shops you’d like to see added to the site.

Here’s a roundup of tidbits from Phinney-Greenwood restaurants.

The new Olive and Grape at 8516 Greenwood Ave. N. has applied for a liquor license to sell beer and wine. And it’s started evening delivery service between 50th and 145th streets. The restaurant is also holding a contest to name the two donkeys featured in the mural on their wall. Enter the contest through Oct. 30 to win dinner for two.

One section of The Olive and Grape’s mural, painted by local artist Chrystine Westphal.

Green Bean Coffeehouse at 8533 Greenwood Ave. N. is now open until 9 p.m. on weekdays. And they’re starting an open mic night later this month. Stay tuned for more details.

Fatty’s Corner Pizzeria at 10410-A Greenwood Ave. N. is now open on Sundays, but closed on Mondays. Owner George Coromilas says Fatty’s will offer football specials on Sundays. (Disclosure: Fatty’s is a PhinneyWood sponsor.)

Let us know what’s happening at other restaurants in the neighborhood.

MyBallard reports that the Blue Glass applied for a liquor license in the former Tigertail location at 704 NW 65th, on the Lower Phinney/Ballard line. Their liquor license application is “to sell spirits, beer, and wine by the individual serving for on-premises consumption. In this case, 50 percent or more of the establishment is dedicated to dining.”

Tigertail closed last year. At the time, a letter from the Department of Revenue posted in the window said the bar owed back taxes.

Thanks to popular demand and our mad weak PHP coding skills, we’ve finally figured out how to organize the Food & Drink section into categories to make browsing easier.

See: All | Bars/pubs | Coffee shops | Delicatessens | Restaurants

We could use your help figuring out how to improve this further. We’ve had other suggestions, including highlighting places that are kid-friendly and have outdoor seating. What do you think? Do those categories work for you and are there any others you’d like to see? What would you consider “kid/family-friendly?” And would a place that has a few chairs outside qualify as having outdoor seating, or should we set a certain threshold?

Also, with the addition of a delicatessen category, we’ve added Ken’s Market and the Safeway deli to the section. And an oversight on our part has been corrected with the addition of Espresso Buono Cafe (located inside Couth Buzzard).

Let us know what you think!

King Falafel Grill, which recently reopened in Greenwood after a long hiatus in the neighborhood, is now available in our Phinney-Greenwood Food & Drink review section for you to post your comments.

Here’s a direct link to King Falafel Grill for you to post your reviews.

The Olive and Grape, which is taking over the spot at 8516 Greenwood Ave. N. from Olive You, plans to open just in time for next Friday’s Artwalk on Sept. 10. Owner Paola Corsini says she’ll open the doors at 4 p.m. and plans olive oil tastings for the evening.

I popped in today and they were still getting everything ready.

Corsini will have a soft opening next Wednesday or Thursday for invited guests to test out the kitchen and wait staff. She says everything will be made fresh in-house, even the bread. Her head chef, Garbis Husikyan ( nicknamed “Captain G”), is an Armenian from Turkey, so she says their Mediterranean food will be completely authentic.

“He knows a lot. He’s going to make different dishes every week and it’s going to be very fun,” Corsini said. ”He’s going to be a great asset; he’s going to bring a lot of color to this restaurant.”

The restaurant’s head waiter, Andrea Onetti, is from Rome and also a chef, and he’ll be bringing authentic Italian foods to the table, including fresh-made pasta.

The Olive and Grape’s phone number is 206-724-0272, but it won’t be hooked up until later today. You can sign up for The Olive and Grape’s newsletter online, and see lunch and dinner menus.

Local artist Chrystine Westphal was working on the wall murals inside today.

Westphal also created 12 paintings for Tarah Jade, which opened at 6801 Greenwood Ave. N. in June, and tomorrow she’ll be hanging 10 of her paintings at Scent of Youth day spa at 6826 Greenwood Ave. N.

Our sister site MyBallard reports that Greenwood’s own Mr. Gyros is opening its second restaurant today on the corner of 20th Avenue NW and NW 56th Street.

The original Mr. Gyros is at 8411 Greenwood Ave. N.

King Falafel Grill is reopening in its new space at 8317 Greenwood Ave. N. at 5 p.m. Tuesday. The doors were open during Friday night’s Summer Streets and Artwalk event, so potential diners could pick up a menu and take a peek inside, even though they were still getting organized.

Here’s the counter with menu board.

And here’s the seating area.

King Falafel used to be at 8102 Greenwood Ave. N., where Aloha Ramen is now. King Falafel will be open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and 5-9 p.m. on Sunday, and will serve diners’ favorites of falafel, shawarma, gyros, baba ghannouj, tabbouleh salad, Mediterranean salad, and more. The restaurant can also provide catering for up to 100 people. Call 206-789-0402.

We’ve been remiss (and by “we,” I mean me) in keeping our Phinney Ridge and Greenwood Food & Drink guide up to date.

In an attempt to rectify that, you’ll now find Fatty’s Corner Pizzeria and In The Red Wine Bar & Cafe in the guide. Let us know if anything else is outdated or missing from the guide!

King Falafel Grill abruptly closed last year, and the owner of the restaurant that took its space at Greenwood and 81st, Aloha Ramen, told us King Falafel’s owner had moved back to Egypt. But, that’s apparently not the case, because King Falafel Grill is reopening in the space next to Chocolati Cafe, at 8317 Greenwood Ave. N.

PhinneyWood tipster Mike Veitenhans sent us this photo of owner Ahmed Asfour (on the right), taking a break from working on the new restaurant this morning.

Asfour told Mike he hopes to open in time for the huge Greenwood Car Show on Saturday, June 26.