Businesses

Typewriter Fever

Typewriter Fever: The Bremerton Shop That Got a Personal Letter From Tom Hanks

Typewriter Fever: Bremerton Shop Tom Hanks Wrote To There is a shop on North Callow Avenue in Bremerton’s Charleston District where more than 200 typewriters line the shelves at any given time, machines from every decade of the twentieth century, each one mechanical, analog, and entirely indifferent to software updates. It is run by a […]

Tolitoz Motherland Bremerton Best-Kept Food Secret

Tolitoz Motherland: Bremerton’s Best-Kept Food Secret

The Bremerton Restaurant Most Locals Don’t Know About Tolitoz Motherland Restaurant Is Bremerton’s Best-Kept Secret and the Most Globally Ambitious Kitchen in Kitsap County There is a restaurant tucked inside a liquor store on 6th Street in Bremerton where a chef from Kenya, who has cooked in Dubai and traveled the world collecting flavors, prepares […]

Vulca's Mediterranean Market Is Downtown Bremerton's Best-Kept Culinary Secret

Vulca’s Mediterranean Market Is Downtown Bremerton’s Best-Kept Culinary Secret

There is a particular kind of discovery that only happens in a well-curated small market, the moment you pick up a tin of hand-packed Portuguese sardines, or a bottle of single-estate cold-pressed olive oil from a small Greek farm, and realize this is something you would never have found at a chain grocery store. Vulca’s […]

Jan's Dressmaking & Alterations Is the Bremerton Seamstress Locals Call a Miracle Worker

Jan’s Dressmaking & Alterations Is the Bremerton Seamstress Locals Call a “Miracle

There is a particular kind of trust that builds around a skilled seamstress, the kind where a wedding dress, a uniform, or a beloved garment gets handed over without hesitation because the reputation precedes the introduction. In Bremerton, that seamstress is Jan Hendricks, owner of Jan’s Dressmaking & Alterations, a small business that has quietly […]