New restaurants include a brunch spot with house pastries, a French bistro, two wine bars and a popular Korean soup shop.

The owner has sewing machines for rent, acrylic and oil paint, canvases, earring hardware, nice markers and pens, among other things.

The owner has infused much-needed new life into a former Pita Pit, with rare local pastries, cakes, sandwiches and coffees with house syrups.

Sandy Tao prepares fresh biscuits each morning at Third Space in downtown Tacoma. Liesbeth Powers/Liesbeth ... or work,” as Lee described it last fall. He left his management job at Beecher ...