Spice Bridge

Congratulations to Seatango Foods for taking over the Spice Bridge space! So good to keep it in the “family”! ❤️🥧🍰🥪🇦🇷

High five if you're coming out! 🙌 Today: Seatango in Tukwila! 🎉 Grand Opening Announcement! 🎉 Seatango is thrilled to announce the opening of our brand-new location in South Seattle! Seatango/Spice Bridge Food Hall🌟 **Discover a World of Flavors:** 🍽️ Authentic Argentinian Cuisine 🌮 Delicious Mexican Dishes 🥘 Exotic Congolese Delights 🗓️ Soft Opening: March 1st 📍 Address: 14200 Tukwila International Blvd, Building A, Suite 141, Tukwila, WA 98168 Come and enjoy a unique culinary experience where diverse cultures meet delicious food. We can't wait to welcome you!

It is time to say goodbye.

Global to Local was created to advance health equity in South King County. However, its doors are closing due to rising operating costs and a lack of sustainable funding.

One program of Global to Local was the Food Innovation Network (FIN), which worked to enhance the local food system and increase access to healthy foods.

Food businesses have traditionally been a way for immigrants and low-income families to gain a foothold in the economy. Still, many South King County chefs face barriers to starting a business, including a lack of affordable commercial kitchen and restaurant space and challenges navigating unfamiliar systems.

In 2017, FIN launched our Food Business Incubator to help South King County BIPOC and immigrants start and grow food businesses. Through culturally sensitive business support, we assisted entrepreneurs with permits, subsidized kitchen and retail rent, helped make connections to market channels, and coached them on food industry standards.

In expanding its services, FIN built Spice Bridge, FIN’s Food Business Incubator, which operated from 2020-2024 and provided a home for FIN’s Incubator program. The 2,800-square-foot facility included a commercial kitchen with four cook stations, four retail food stalls, and a dining area. Food vendors rotated through the food hall stalls, offering culinary experiences that reflected the diversity of our community. Additional businesses used our kitchen for off-site sales, such as pop-ups and packaged products.

Spice Bridge also helped build food security in our community, supporting Tukwila Village Farmers Market, making fresh, local produce affordable and accessible, and providing a hub for FIN’s community meals program, which provided more than 8,700 no-cost meals for seniors and families in need.

We’re incredibly grateful to our generous community of donors and supporters who helped build and sustain Global to Local, the Food Innovation Network, and Spice Bridge.

Thank you for being a part of our work, our story, and our community.

Meet Chef Caroline Musitu.

Caroline grew up in Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo helping her mother cater weddings, parties, and church meetups. After fleeing armed conflict, Caroline moved to South King County to start a new life. Realizing no Congolese food businesses were in our region, she launched Taste of Congo to share her home country’s unique flavors with her new community.

A popular Congolese dish called Ntaba, which is grilled goat, is popular to eat after work in Congo. Chef Caroline serves Ntaba in traditional brown paper and with kwanga, which is boiled, fermented cassava. This dish is served with toothpicks to make it easy to share with others.

Beignets are deep-fried dough and called mikates in Congolese. Mikate vendors are found on street corners early in the morning in Congo so people can pick them up for breakfast on their way to work. Chef Caroline likes to eat them with peanut butter in the morning, afternoon, and evening.

Another popular dish in Congo is chicken stew cooked with onion, garlic, and tomato. In Congo, it’s called poulet a la moamba.

Chef Caroline dreams of opening her own Taste of Congo restaurant and packaging offerings like her chili sauce to ship them all over the United States.

Follow Chef Caroline and Taste of Congo or get in touch with her at [email protected] to taste the authentic flavors of Congo.

Meet Chef Jolorene Guzman-Mohamad.

Jolorene grew up in Seattle, and her family was from the Philippines. Her family owned and operated a restaurant until Jolo reached five years old where Jolorene remembers running around pretending to be one of the chefs.

While cooking was a family tradition, Jolorene also taught herself to cook several styles of food. Jolo’s cooking is a blend of her early exposure to Filipino dishes, her husband’s Cambodian-Viet background, working in several Japanese restaurants, and a variety of cultural foods experienced while traveling, ultimately teaching herself to fuse those influences into her distinctive offerings today.

Jolorene started her catering business, Jolorene’s Kitchen, during the pandemic, when there was a high demand for sushi. Her other innovative menu items include Filipino sandwiches, and a twist on Bahn Mi with Filipino meat, sliders, and tacos.

Are you in the mood for new and different flavors? Jolorene’s Kitchen is the perfect choice. Get in touch with Jolorene to cater your next special event!

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Meet Chef Monica Di Bartolomeo.

Chef Monica and her husband, Chef Ariel Firpo, grew up in Argentina with ancestors from Italy and Spain. Chef Monica’s father was an Italian-Argentinian chef, and Chef Ariel’s mother and grandmother were both pastry chefs. Using many of the recipes and techniques they learned from their families and support from Ventures and the Food Innovation Network’s incubator, Chefs Monica and Ariel opened their Argentinian bakery in Lake City.

Craving buttery, flaky factura pastries?

Visit Chefs Monica and Ariel at their bakery at 12728 Lake City Way NE, Seattle, to satisfy your hankering! Along with authentic Argentinian sweets, Seatango offers traditional savory dishes made from scratch. Seatango foods are available at the bakery, but they also provide a substantial catering menu including savory appetizers, a variety of desserts, and grilled meats.

Picadas, mesa dulce, empanadas, asado, mate tea, coffee and more at Seatango!