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Frelard Tamales

Name: Frelard Tamales
Address: 106 N 36th Street, Seattle, WA, 98103, US
Telephone: +12065236654
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Frelard Tamales is a tamaleria shop and Mexican food caterer providing authentic handmade food with real "homemade" flavors.

Dennis and Osbaldo decided to launch Frelard Tamales in 2015 after they noticed a lack of authentic Mexican tamales in Seattle. Using Osbaldo's family recipe, Frelard Tamales has been able to continue a Mexican tradition of cooking and delivering an authentic taste. Frelard comes from a combination of (Fre)mont and Bal(lard) since that is where we live and started our small business. It is an iron

ic name as we are currently located in the Green Lake neighborhood of Seattle. Aside from making tamales and running the business, both of them hold full-time positions: Dennis worked as cancer research scientist at Seattle Children's Hospital for over seven years before beginning his commercial brewing career at Hellbent Brewing Co. He received his Masters Brewer certificate from UC Davis. Osbaldo works as a Community Engagement Coordinator for the City of Seattle but has held different professional roles including working for U.S. Senator Patty Murray, the Shoreline & Bellevue School Districts and is a former high school social studies teacher. Dennis is a local Ballard native and Osbaldo was born and raised in Puerto Vallarta until the early 2000s when he and his family moved to the Seattle area. They are both huge outdoor adventurists and enjoy hiking, snow shoeing, and camping. They have two fun and energetic dogs: one a chocolate labrador and a mutt mix who take more of their time than making tamales. Osbaldo & Dennis are not afraid of making their beliefs and political values known. As a proud in*******al gay couple, they often support local causes especially around the issues of immigrant and LGBTQ rights.

04/23/2026

These tostadas are TOO good to not post them on the grid. We have a delicious food special going on today only at both Seattle and Bellingham locations.

Say hello to our Loaded Shrimp Tostada. A house-made tostada with a thick layer of guacamole, pico, topped with five shrimp cooked with garlic butter, finished with fresh pineapple chunks and chipotle mayo.

These things are heavy. Loaded with fresh goodness and they’re waiting for you today. See you soon!

01/30/2026

This message is brought to you by one of the owners of Frelard Tamales & El Sueñito. From Osbaldo: As an immigrant myself, as a person who lived 10 years as an undocumented person in the shadows of our broken immigration system and as someone who lived (and still live) in fear of deportation. As someone who has a mother who was accused of human trafficking for immigrating to the U.S. with my younger brother and I. As someone who could lose its citizenship if this administration deems anything I do as an “act of terrorism.” I am sharing this message with you.

In solidarity & que siga la lucha!

Osbaldo and Frelard Tamales & El Sueñitoq we
And to all corrupt, fascist, racists and incapable ICE & CBP agents, F**K YOU — may you rot in hell and have a miserable life.

01/24/2026

Since moving to Fremont we’ve experienced five different break-ins in just over 18 months. We don’t mean to brag but someone should contact the Guinness World Records and inquire if we take the prize for business with most break-ins during an 18-month period.

Like most businesses, we use a box safe to store cash. Well, here is the bad part: the humans who chose to vandalize and destroy our big sliding windows to break-in this morning decided to take our safe. I call that a little bit rude, if you the thieves are reading this. I mean sure, we lost all cash collected from sales since our last deposit day earlier this week and the til change we keep around to be able to process change, but you (the thieves) also took our employees’ cash tips that get stored there until our weekly payroll is processed. That is the rude part. Our employees work hard for those tips and we don’t care you have a few hundred dollars to play with but don’t be rude and next time leave cash tips behind (and sure go ahead, tip yourself a dollar or two as a token of appreciation for your good ethics if you do that). We have decided to replace the missing cash tips out of our own pockets so that our employees don’t have to lose some of their weekly income.

Besides losing the safe with close to $1,000 in cash from the business and our employees’ tips, they also stole our event speaker, and they caused major damage to our storefront sliders, which could easily cost a few thousand dollars to repair. This break-in definitely hurts more than previous ones and it comes on the heels of another act of vandalism that happened in November when folks thought it would be fun to drill a hole through the gas tank of our business van. After we replaced the gas tank, someone decided to graffiti the entire body of the van.

This goes to say, it’s rough out there. We will take all the love & support you can give us and so will all the small business you love and would hate to see closed. See our posted image for ways you can help. Thank you for loving us for the last ten years in business.

PS. If you own or work for a body shop and are interested in painting our van for a good deal, hit us up 💁🏻

01/22/2026

Seattle Thursday special: chiles rellenos! We are cooking a batch of chiles rellenos en salsa roja for a one-day special. Made with chile poblanos roasted on the grill and filled with Mexican queso fresco, dunked in a batter (contains eggs - gluten-free) and cooked in a red sauce. Served with a side of rice and refried beans (vegan & gluten-free).

Meet us at the Fremont location for a delicious meal!

01/05/2026

Even if you’re participating in Dry January, you can still get a little wet with this January deal! Queso smothered tamales are next level and will certainly keep you warm and satisfied all month long.

Get a free queso smothering of your tamales when you order a one tamal plate or two tamales plate. Just let the staff member taking your order know that you want to get the free queso upgrade.

Our queso is made with real fresh ingredients. Made with pepper jack cheese that we shred every day combined with milk, butter, jalapeños, and green chiles. It’s so so good!

Valid for tamal plates, not a la carte tamales. Dine in only. Available all month long at both locations. No coupon coded needed. Just mention this to your server.

Run, maybe a little faster than the guy in the video, and come hang with us for a meal today!

12/19/2025

Find us in this month’s Vanity Fair Magazine. Read about some of the steamiest kitchen stories and find the secrets of where we source our special beer and food ingredients.

This month’s magazine reminds us all that it is in fact the season of tamales. Give yourself 100 reasons to drink Sueñito beer and eat tamales, and take our quiz to find your perfect beer match.

We are grateful for Christopher Anderson who once again can show the world that a picture is worth a thousand words. We thank members of our team for helping us shed light on the work we do every day behind the scenes.

12/03/2025

Have you pre-ordered your holiday 🌲 tamales? You can now pre-order your holiday tamales. Our online pre-ordering system is open and ready to take all your orders for both our Seattle and Bellingham location.

Pre-ordering will guarantee you will have tamales 🫔 for your upcoming holiday celebrations as we often sell out of tamales during the peak of the holiday season.

📍 We have three pick up locations this year:
We are expanding our reach area. You are going to be able to pick up from three locations this year: Bellingham, Seattle or Bow, WA in Skagit County. We are partnering with Bow Kitchen Hub and they will take care of orders for those of you who live closer to that part of the Puget Sound. Same process, just at a new pick up location for convenience.

Head to our Frelard Tamales site or find link in bio to place your orders right now 😋

10/30/2025

Say hello to Claire, the winner of our 10 year anniversary tamales 🫔 for life giveaway out of our Seattle location!

Claire has been enjoying our tamales since our Green Lake days and she’s now even more excited to be able to enjoy our tamales for life, until death do us part (it’s not dark humor — it’s just Día de los Mu***os weekend 🤭)

Thank you to everyone who participated in our giveaway and to the many, many of you who entered our giveaway. We had a great time celebrating our 10th anniversary and we look forward to celebrating more years with you!

10/29/2025

Have you ever enjoyed a th*****me? Well, this is your sign: Join us and Have a Th*****me with us! That’s right, indulge 😈 yourself with our appetizer sampler and choose up to three options from our house-made queso 🧀 , salsa 🌶️ , beans 🫘 and guacamole 🥑

Have a Th*****me is currently available only at our Seattle location. A th*****me can be enjoyed alone or with your friends. We don’t judge around here 😉

See you soon!

10/21/2025

Our Día de los Mu***os 💀 💐 ofrenda altares are up at both of our locations. 🕯️ Drop off pictures of your loved ones that are no longer physically with us and we will place them on our ofrendas altar.

You can do this at our Seattle + Bellingham locations. Drop them off by Sunday, Nov. 2nd. Make sure these are not originals as photos will be burnt after Nov. 2nd in a ceremonial fire 🔥

An ofrenda (Spanish for “offering”) is a central element of Día de los Mu***os celebrations in Mexico and other parts of Latin America. It is an altar or display created to honor and welcome the souls of loved ones who have passed away. The belief is that during Día de los Mu***os (November 1st & 2nd), the spirits return to visit, and the ofrenda provides them with the things they enjoyed in life—along with symbols of love, respect, and remembrance.

10/18/2025

At Frelard Tamales, we don’t really need or care for kings 👑 or anyone wanting to be one. We have plenty of badass queens 👸 who help run every aspect of this machine. We say no to the king and we say thank you to the queens in our business who deserve all praise and appreciation for keeping the food, beers and drinks coming.

To everyone who loves good food, good beers, great cocktails, inclusive community spaces and a healthy real democracy, we raise the glass and cheers to you all!

PS. Not every badass queen helping run the business are shown above. We are grateful for everyone who’s part of helping keep this machine running.

Address

106 N 36th Street
Seattle, WA
98103

Opening Hours

Monday	11am - 10pm
Tuesday	11am - 10pm
Wednesday	11am - 10pm
Thursday	11am - 10pm
Friday	11am - 10pm
Saturday	11am - 10pm
Sunday	11am - 10pm

Telephone

+12065236654

Website

https://linktr.ee/frelardtamales

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