Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This That. Urban Foraging: Weeds Wild Foods May 16 Calling all weed heads! If you’ve ever wondered which of those weeds in your yard, in the park, or on the trails could be cooked and eaten, have I got the event for you. The University of Washington Botanic Gardens is putting on a one-day urban foraging workshop. Meet up at Discovery Park with your guide, Melany Vorass Herrera, an ethnobiology expert and author of The Front Yard Forager. For three hours, you’ll walk through Discovery Park and learn the ins and outs of edible weeds and wild foods, plus a few ways to prepare them. It’s the ultimate way to take your crunchy granola-ness to the next level. (Discovery Park, 1 pm, all ages) NATHALIE GRAHAM The Block: Mobile Cafe Meet-Up May 17 Seattle has a thriving food-and-drink pop-up scene, so much so that I often feel overwhelmed by all the options while trying to track who’s appearing where. And it doesn’t help that once I follow a spot on Instagram, the goddamn algorithm still buries their posts. I know I’m not alone, because the Block exists. On May 17, the Fairview Market Hall will fill with more than a dozen vendors. My Favorite Ice Cream makes all your chunky ice cream dreams come true with scoops and pints loaded with surprising toppings like brown butter and fennel sourdough croutons, matcha rose gooey butter cake “chonks,” and fish sauce caramel swirl (not all in the same flavor). Yoks Cafe makes Hawaiian-inspired coffee drinks, and the pineapple float cold brew and a haupia cream hot chocolate with toasted-to-order mallow look especially tasty. And look at these cookie flavors from Anh Ơi Bake Shop, a Vietnamese bakery: Fried Banana Cookie (Chuối Chiên), Pandan Coconut Bean Cookie (Chè Ba Màu), Coconut Mung Bean Cookie (Đậu Xanh Dừa), and Thai Tea Persimmon Cookie (Trà Thái Trái Hồng). I’ll take two of everything, Anh Ơi, and I’m not kidding.  (Fairview Market Hall, 11 am–3 pm) MEGAN SELING Kilig x No Call No Show x A Pervert Named TN Present: Hard Covers and Bare Backs: An Erotic Novel Pop Up June 1 No Call No Show’s tagline is “Boozy popups for unpretentious foodies,” and when it comes to ridiculous concepts—and completely committing to the bit—this gang of veteran chefs and bartenders are not playing. On June 1, NCNS’s theme is erotica, and the party will be at Kilig, sister restaurant to Musang. Chef-owner and serial JBA semifinalist Melissa Miranda is on deck to provide bespoke bites, while cocktail weirdos TN Trang (Itsumono) and Matt Pachmayr (Le Coin, Streamline) will be shaking up bawdy, gaudy craft drinks. Source material will include steamy romance Get in My Swamp: An Ogre Love Story as well as Triceratops and Bottoms, a dinosaur erotica novella. The menus are still under wraps, but the team will be costumed absurdly (as ever) and soliciting amateur erotica from guests. If you’re no novelist, that’s okay—Trang says there’ll be smutty books on tables from which folks can share their favorite quotes via mic, plus a live erotica reading. Pachmayr adds, “It’s going to be so fucking dumb, lol.” (Kilig, 5 pm, 21+) MEG VAN HUYGEN More Seattle Beer Week 2026 May 7–16, various locations Mother’s Day Weekend Cookbook Sale May 9, the Garden at Volunteer Park, 10 am–2 pm Good Voyage x No Call No Show Present: Welcome to New Orleans Night May 11, Good Voyage, 5 pm London Fog and Florals Demo Class May 11, Deep Sea Sugar and Salt, 5:30 pm Author Talk: Saeng Douangdara May 13, Book Larder, 6:30 pm Author Talk and Demo: Nancy Singleton Hachisu May 14, Book Larder, 6:30 pm Situ Tacos Anniversary Party May 15, Situ Tacos, 11 am–midnight Pâte Brisée: Sweet and Savory Galettes Workshop May 16, Pastry Project, 3 pm Tigers Eye x No Call No Show Present: Nightshade Elixirs May 18, Dark Room, 5 pm Author Talk: Alana Kysar May 18, Book Larder, 6:30 pm Author Talk and Tasting: Cha McCoy May 19, Book Larder, 6:30 pm Author Talk and Demo: Nichole Accettola May 21, Book Larder, 6:30 pm 3rd Annual OysterFest May 21, RailSpur, 6 pm Paris Brest: Master the Art of Choux Pastry and Cremieux May 24, Pastry Project, 3 pm Genoise Mirror Glaze Workshop May 31, Pastry Project, 3 pm The post April Things to Do: Food appeared first on The Stranger. ...read more read less