It was a bold prediction. The guys behind the Unicorn’s downstairs little brother the Narwhal had planned to debut the new ring of their psychedelic circus Friday night.
Thanks to a fire inspection, construction work and the good and magical delays that go into the final days before a subterranean bar space opens for business, you’ll have to wait another week to enjoy the second level of the Unicorn, replete with a second bar, eight new taps and a game room that is, as you read this, scheduled to be stuffed with enough pinball machines to keep any Local Lad busy.
You’ll also find the Wheel of Drink, pictured here. To win a spin on this wheel of, um, fortune, you’ll need to play the claw game. Grab the right prize and you can give fate a spin and maybe win yourself a shot of Unicorn Jizz. Google it.
Seattle Police have provided new details on Wednesday’s shooting that left 52-year-old Gloria Koch Leonidas dead in a First Hill parking lot as part of a string of killings that left six dead in Seattle.
According to police, witnesses said Leonidas fought back when killer Ian Stawicki approached her as she paid to park in the Town Hall lot after she dropped of a friend at the First Hill facility.
According to witnesses, Leonidas was hit and kicked by Stawicki. During the struggle, Stawicki dropped his pistol, then picked it up and shot Leonidas at point blank range.Â
Standersby and Seattle Fire rushed to her aid but she was dead at the scene.
Police have released audio from a 911 call made from the scene at 8th and Seneca. It is graphic and unedited. Please use discretion in choosing to listen to the audio.
Police still don’t know how Stawicki traveled from the University District to First Hill but are searching the area for abandoned cars. At a news conference Thursday afternoon, SPD officials who reviewed security video from Cafe Racer said the images were some of the most shocking they had experienced in decades of police work.
“This is completely senseless,” SPD chief detective Jim Pugel said of the motive for the shootings.Â
“He knew he wasn’t supposed to be there,” Pugel said. “It appeared the barista was calmly refusing service.”
After the University District shootings, police say Stawicki took a hat from one of his victims and walked out of the cafe. His covered head may account for some of the witness accounts that described an attacker who appeared to have a short crew cut.
One witness tells police that Stawicki attempted to run over his victim as he left the parking lot in the victim’s SUV before fleeing to West Seattle where he attempted to contact an acquaintance and eventually shot himself as police closed in.
According to the City Attorney, as of 2010, Stawicki held a concealed weapon permit and reported possession of five six pistols:
Police have not yet confirmed that any of these handguns were used in Wednesday’s shootings which reportedly involved two .45 caliber weapons.
Out of the dark episode, a man being identified only by the name of “Lawrence” has emerged as a hero for fending off the shooter with stools inside the cafe allowing three people to flee the carnage. The Seattle PI also talked to people who came to the aid of Leonidas.
More details on the killings at Cafe Racer and the manhunt that covered the entirety of the city from SPD are below:
A 2008 booking photo of Stawicki provided by the City Attorney’s office
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A gunman killed five people in a violent rampage, and later took his own life after police cornered him in West Seattle Wednesday, following a five-hour citywide manhunt.
Following the cafe shooting, more than 100 detectives and officers from specialized units, along with patrol units and federal authorities, fanned out across the city looking for Stawicki.
A half hour later, Stawicki approached a woman in a parking lot at 8th and Seneca, pistol-whipped her, knocked her to the ground, and shot her in the head, fatally wounding her. The first 911 calls about the shooting came in at 11:32 am, and officers were at the scene by 11:34. But, again, Stawicki had fled the scene, this time in the woman’s Mercedes SUV.
Stawicki drove to West Seattle, and abandoned the stolen SUV—along with one of his handguns—near Delridge Way SW and SW Dakota Street.
Flowers and candles left Thursday night at Cafe Racer (Image: Marlow Harris)
Marlow Harris is a Capitol Hill resident, a frequent CHS contributor and a curator of exceptionally unusual art. Her OBAMA — Official Bad Art Museum of Art — has called Cafe Racer home. Her 14-year-old son Sam graduates from St. Joe’s today — congrats, Sam. With his family’s connection to the cafe, Sam was moved to talk about his take on Wednesday’s tragedies with a post to Reddit that many in the city are adding to as a kind of online shrine. It’s one of many ways to mark what happened and deal with it. We asked Marlow for permission to share his post publicly on CHS. Sam’s essay written the night of the shootings and a local vigil planned for Friday on Capitol Hill are below.
I am fourteen and I have never experienced death of a loved one, other than my uncle. I was so close with everyone who was injured, it’s so hard to believe. I would have never expected this, the day before my graduation of 8th grade, a shooting at Cafe Racer, our favorite place to eat and enjoy ourselves. It seemed like such a peaceful place, a place that was so comforting and reliable, we went there anytime it was a special occasion and we knew everybody there. My parents even established an art show there, the walls were covered with bad art. Our close family friends were shot by a man named Ian Lee Stawicki who later shot himself in the head while surrounded by cops, he is alive and currently at the hospital. He went to Cafe Racer and shot five people many times. Two were immediately dead, two great guys who are in a great band, Drew, better known as Shmootzi, and Joe from God’s Favorite Beefcake. They were both great men, I grew up listening to them and watching them preform, every time I saw drew we caught up and hugged. A third person died later in the hospital, she is unidentified, but we are worried it’s drew’s wife. Two others were wounded, one identified, and another man who is a chef named Leonard Meuse who was truly a great guy, he served us drinks every time we went to the cafe, he was shot three times, once in the jaw, and twice under the arm, they are both in critical condition. Ian, the shooter is suspected to be the same person who later shot a woman while hijacking an SUV on First Hill. I think it’s sickening, I couldn’t even imagine why someone would do this, to kill someone, without motive, even with motive, life is the most precious thing anywhere. Our family is afraid that the peace of Cafe Racer is destroyed, that we may never be able to enjoy Cafe Racer again, it would be too hard with the memories. We are afraid it may be shut down, and we have put so much into the cafe and all the people there. This week is a crazy, unbearable week, I am leaving St. Joseph’s, my school of 11 years, I will never forget my time there, tomorrow is my graduation and last day. This has been a day of ups and downs, truly. I can’t type any more.
[Seattle, WA] Saint Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral invites the community to a Service of Vigil and Prayer for Victims of Violence. In response to the tragic events of Wednesday, May 30, and the increase in violence in recent weeks, Saint Mark’s is offering the entire community an opportunity to gather at 8:30 p.m. on Friday, June 1 for a quiet service of prayers, reflection, and readings. The service is open to all.
“The recent shootings in Seattle remind the Church, as the Body of Christ, of our need to sow peace in the hearts of all people,” said the Rev. Canon Lance Ousley, Priest-in-Charge. “Saint Mark’s Cathedral is here to offer a comforting space in our city, so that we all may be present with one another in these times of loss, grief and questioning. This Cathedral community stands with all of Greater Seattle as we seek healing, wholeness and solace from the violence that has pierced our world.”
The investigation into the shootings that left five dead continues. Suspect Ian Stawicki has also died after shooting himself as police closed in on him on a West Seattle street. SPD has scheduled an afternoon briefing Thursday to release the latest details in the case.
Starting Friday, the new world of privatized liquor will sprinkle private spirits retailers across Capitol Hill. But not every new shelf is stocked and change is in the air. Be ready for sticker shock, at least in the beginning, most say. But also be ready for some cool new opportunities like another local distillery’s start of over the counter sales. We’ve cobbled together a (mostly?) complete roster of the new players, new hours and new etc. of the post-1183 Capitol Hill, below.
First, let’s celebrate a milestone most will agree is purely cool. Sun Liquor Distillery can begin over the counter sales on Friday — and is ready to roll. You can score their local vodka and gin starting at 11a Friday — the E Pike location will start its new lunch hours that day, too. Sun joins Oola with a combined retail and distillery operation on the Hill. In March, we marked another 1183 milestone for Oola — the start of self-distribution.
We first documented the coming wave of spirits retailers on the Hill back in March. Since, more big grocery stores and drugstores have joined the club as well as the privateers taking over the rights to the state shops. You’ll find some tight spaces inside the “big” chain stores. The QFC Broadway Market liquor area, shown her, has been shoehorned into a walled-off area of the store.
The 12th and Pine shop — re-dubbed Northwest Liquor & Wine — is ready to go with its new owner and should be open for business on Friday.
The Broadway state store rights had to be re-auctioned after the winning bidder backed out. Last week, a re-auction of rights to certain state store locations included the Broadway store re-selling for $365,000 — up from the $255,000 and change it went for online. The winning bid went to a buyer with a Surrey, B.C. address with a listed name of “Salbinder Cadri.” Our attempts to contact the bidder have so far been unsuccessful but it appears he might also be known in the Portland business community. We’re working on it. The owners of the Broadway property have said they are also looking at potentially more lucrative business proposals to fill the space.
Below is a roster of the Capitol Hill stores jumping on the booze bandwagon. We’ve included hours of planned spirits retailing when available with the caveat that we’ve encountered a fair amount of confusion from some of the stores about the logistics of it all.
Capitol Hill Area’s Post-1183 Spirits Retailer Roster (*no liquor inventory as of 6/1)
QFC at Harvard Market — 6:00AM until 2:00AM
Safeway on 15th — 6:00AM until 2:00AM
Safeway on 23rd — 6:00AM until 2:00AM
Trader Joe’s* — 8:00AM until 10:00PM
Walgreen’s* on 15th — 8:00AM until 10:00PM
QFC Broadway Market — 10:00 AM until Midnight
QFC on 15th*
Northwest Liquor & Wine (12th Ave)
23rd and Union state liquor store (re-opens June 2nd)
Central Co-Op*
Bartell’s Harvard Market (inventory status unknown)
Walgreens Broadway Crossing (inventory status unknown)
Pete’s Supermarket – 58 E Lynn (inventory status unknown)
Montlake Blvd Market — (inventory status unknown)
Bert’s Red Apple Market — (inventory status unknown)
Happy Weekend, Capitol Hill. Now that the daylight sticks around until past nine, it’s time to make the hours count. That’s life in a northern town. Have an event we don’t know about? Add it to the the CHS Calendar.Â
Join the Lowell Elementary School community for our Spring Art Fest. Enjoy food, live music and a chance to buy one-of-a-kind artworks by students and local artists!
More than 200 pieces of art by our talented children will be exhibited. Each student was given a 6-inch-by-6-inch wooden plaque and invited to turn it into a work of art using whatever media, materials and techniques came to mind. Each piece will be on sale for $10.
Local Seattle artists have donated work as well that will be auctioned during the event.
Live entertainment will be provided by Seattle Fandango Project and Capoeira MalĂŞs. Enjoy light hors d’oeuvres and beverages while you view the art and listen to the music.
“Noise for the Needy (NFTN), Seattle’s premier benefit music festival, raises money for Seattle charities through an annual series of music events that bring musicians, promoters, artists, and volunteers together to support those in need.
Noise for the Needy  2012 will take place June 1st – 10th in venues throughout Seattle. Proceeds will benefit Seattle Community Law Center. SCLC provides accessible legal aid and advocacy to people with disabilities and other barriers, helping them navigate federal benefit programs to obtain the resources necessary to gain financial and medical stability.
NFTN showcases the best of Seattle’s local music from a variety of genres in venues all across Seattle, and regularly features regional and national acts. Past artists have included Talib Kweli, Two Gallants, The Black Angels, The Warlocks, Okkervil River, Sera Cahoone, CSS, Art Brut, Miike Snow, Album Leaf, Matt & Kim, Horsefeathers, Throw Me the Statue, The Constantines, The Handsome Family, and many more.”
LONGSHOT: 24 Hour Photo-thon 24 hours of fun supporting PCNW
Join us as we support the Photo Center NW for 24 hours of fun, photos and festivities! LONG SHOT is an event that celebrates photography, creativity, and our greater community, while raising funds for education
 and outreach programs at Photo Center NW. It is a fun, one day event where photographers hit the streets to capture a theme, community, or subject of their choice. Any image taken between June 1-2, 2012 is eligible for exhibition, and at least one image from each participant will be featured in the LONG SHOT exhibition at Photo Center NW on July 28, 2012. The event is open to everyone, using any camera, anywhere.
Here at TWIF we really like to push our limits and we want to make this a fun filled 24 hour event. Sign up for the event through our website and we’ll clue you in on special checkpoints, surprises and more along the way. The more the merrier and we cannot think of a better way to have fun, meet new friends and participate in something amazing for a great cause!
Broadway Performance Hall was packed full of the greenest folk on Capitol Hill Tuesday night to discuss the neighborhood’s future as an EcoDistrict. Capitol Hill Housing’s 7th Annual Community Forum brought together a panel that included Mayor Mike McGinn, president of the Bullitt Foundation — and founder of Earth Day — Denis Hayes, and King County Executive Ron Sims, who moderated the event.
An “EcoDistrict” refers to a neighborhood committed to sustainability through reinvigorated infrastructure and a focus on various environmental areas like energy, water and transportation. The result could be a zone around Capitol Hill’s light rail station created with incentives for developers to build green, sustainable buildings — similar in ways to the Pike/Pine Conservation District’s incentives for encouraging preservation. What that would actually mean, how it work, and, to some extent, how it would be paid for, were all on the table Tuesday night.
Alex Brennan of Capitol Hill Housing and Alicia Daniels Uhlig of GGLO presented an abbreviated version of an extensive analytical report on the project, which is being funded by the Bullitt Foundation as it constructs its new headquarters at 15th and Madison.
The findings are comprised of a thorough set of metrics and data to support the project, as well as a list of possible goals and benchmarks to shoot for. A brief version of the presentation can be found here. The reports call for carbon-neutrality in the city by 2050, as well as reduced water usage and increased canopy coverage. A simulated image of Dick’s on Broadway within the projected EcoDistrict shown at the conference made the fast food joint look like a majestic oasis in the middle of a beautiful urban rainforest.
As panel member Llewellyn Wells, President of Living City Block said, “It’s all pie in the sky unless people in this room and this community take up the work.” The “work” that needs to be done ranged across a variety of issues:
The packed audience was repeatedly begged to fill out participation cards.
“One of the challenges of building a sustainable building is that it’s mostly illegal in Seattle,” Hayes said. The comment drew laughs as Hayes explained how difficult city codes made it to construct the nearly finished Bullitt Center on 15th Ave and E Madison, what is being billed as “The greenest building in the world,” and the world’s first completed Living Building. Hayes broke down the policy shifts needed from the city as well as bank investors and called for a shift in the standards of appraisal used to value buildings. Hayes called for exemptions to restrictive codes and policies to be set in place for special green projects like the Bullitt Center.
McGinn echoed Hayes’ concerns. “Making sustainability legal is hard,” he said, calling for more of a prescriptive approach to policy making rather than a simple outcome based method that emphasizes quick fiscal turnaround. In addition, McGinn suggested that “Seattle could revitalize its industry sectors by becoming a leader for sustainable manufacturing,” to a round of applause from the audience.
Panel member Naomi Cole brought her experience from directing the EcoDistrict program in Portland, advising Seattleites to come up with a definitive coordinated strategy that is led by the city, as well the importance of choosing an appointed community leader to spearhead the project.
Rebecca Saldaña, Program director of Equitable Transit Oriented Development at Puget Sound Page made it clear that EcoDistricts should reflect the needs and wants of the communities their built in. “What we want and need in Capitol Hill might not be what is wanted or needed in Rainier Beach,” Saldaña said. “But if we communicate across neighborhoods, you’ll see that we have a lot of things in common.”
Wells emphasized the value of retrofitting existing buildings. “When it comes down to it, the most sustainable thing we can do is work with what’s already there.”
The panel of local community leaders and policy makers.
During audience Q&A, issues were brought up around engaging youth in the EcoDistrict project, as well as how to engage low-income communities and communities of color.
Cole challenged the assumption that those communities wouldn’t be engaged by the program. “Out of the five pilot neighborhoods where we started these EcoDistrict projects, by far the two most enthusiastic neighborhoods were the most culturally diverse, low-income neighborhoods. Many of these neighborhoods are used to dealing with issues on a reactive level, so when the opportunity comes to work together on a common goal on a more proactive level, the result is energizing.”
For more on this week’s forum, check out this post from CHS contributor John Feit of Schemata Workshop:
The Report and CHH’s roll-out are well timed, coming as they (supposedly) came out less than six month’s from the date that Sound Transit says they will release the Request for Proposals (RFP) for the Capitol Hill station’s TOD development sites. The sites, which figure prominently and are in fact the literal center of the Report’s maps, present the best early opportunity for furthering the Report’s goals as they will be the largest single assembly of adjacent private development parcels likely to hit the market for the foreseeable future, and are in fact large enough to realize many of the economies of scale required for implementing the Report’s strategies. How the Eco-District Report figures into the development TOD parcels are yet to be seen, but there is no doubt that the vision of the Report and the best interests of the community will be served by developers who are responding to the RFP that have both a proposal and track record that testifies to an ability to make the TOD Capitol Hill’s first significant contribution to our Eco-district goals.
The suspect in Wednesday morning’s shooting at the University District’s Cafe Racer was confronted by officers and shot himself just before 4p, SPD said in updates this afternoon. Police are now “confident” the Cafe Racer shootings and the First Hill shooting death are connected.
According to SPD, the suspect has died while the Seattle PI reports that the suspect was alive as of 5:15p at Harborview. UPDATE: SPD confirms that the suspect is alive and receiving treatment as of early Wednesday evening. UPDATE x2: — 9:05PM:Â A Harborview spokesperson says the suspect has died.
“Officers spotted man matching descrip of n. sea shooting susp @ 37/Raymond and tried to contact him. He knelt down and shot himself,” reported the department’s Twitter account.
The Seattle Times is identifying the suspect as Ian Lee Stawicki. His family says the 40-year-old is mentally ill. Washington records show no significant criminal convictions on his record despite a few brushes with the law and two domestic violence incidents.
SPD says detectives are still investigating the connection between the University District shootings and the 8th and Seneca shooting that left a woman dead in a First Hill parking lot. The First Hill shooting was originally reported as a carjacking less than an hour after the Cafe Racer shootings. UPDATE: SPD’s report on the day’s events is here.
Leonidas (Image from her Twitter account)
The victim in the First Hill shooting has been identified in a notice sent home to parents of a Capitol Hill-area school her daughters attend as 52-year-old Gloria Koch Leonidas. Her listed address is a Bellevue location.
SPD is calling Stawicki the “lone suspect in 4 murders in 2 locations.” A fifth and sixth victim have since died. Detectives are piecing together what lead to the start of the violence in Cafe Racer, how the suspect traveled from the University District to 8th and Seneca, what transpired in the Town Hall Seattle parking lot and where the suspect hid out and evaded police for hours in West Seattle.
In the meantime, SPD says expect “a heightened police presence for the time being” on the streets of Seattle.
The Seattle Times reports that the survivor from the cafe shooting, Leonard Meuse, attended Seattle Central’s pastry program before becoming chef at Cafe Racer. The Times also has more about Meuse, the victims at Cafe Racer and Leonidas here.
Details on the incidents and live coverage from the day are below.
Earlier: Seattle Police say it is too early to rule out that this morning’s murder of a woman in a First Hill parking lot could be related to the shooting earlier today at Cafe Racer in the University District.
Police at the scene confirmed that the female victim in the First Hill shooting in the parking lot behind Town Hall has died. Police say witnesses told them the “man and woman were in an argument” before he pulled out his handgun and shot her in the head.
A witness at the parking lot told CHS she saw a man standing over a woman in the parking lot, punching and kicking the victim before shooting her at close range with a pistol. A witness at the scene told CHS the man had a blond crew cut. Police say he appeared to be in his 30s.
The Cafe Racer shooter has been described as a white male, 6’1, very thin, with curly light brown hair, wearing a light blue jacket, a purple shirt and grey pants. We’ve added a picture of the suspect, below.
The suspect fled the scene in the victim’s black SUV which has been recovered along with one handgun in West Seattle where a manhunt is underway.
UPDATE: A suspect in the 8th and Seneca Cafe Racer murder has been shot by police or suffered a self-inflicted gun wound near the High Point area of West Seattle. “Suspect in n. sea shootings shot himself near 37th and Sw Raymond this afternoon,” SPD announced via Twitter.
In the wake of the West Seattle incident, police are not yet willing to say there is a connection between the Cafe Racer and First Hill shootings despite the SUV from the 8th/Seneca murder being abandoned about two miles away.
The Seattle Times reports that three people died and two were injured in the shootings at the U District cafe this morning.
Original report:Â Seattle Police are searching for the suspect in a shooting reported on First Hill Wednesday morning just after 11:30
Police are looking for a black SUV seen leaving the area.
The city’s police  services are also busy in the University District where a multiple shooting has left at least two people dead. The incidents do not appear to be related at this time.
Despite arguments from city officials that the change would make Seattle a safer place and pleas from Capitol Hill nightlife entrepreneurs to have more freedom to set their own course, the Washington Liquor Control board voted 2 to 1 Wednesday morning to deny the City of Seattle petition to grant local municipalities the power to set their own liquor service hours.
In March, the board members came to Seattle for a hearing on the petition that included a heavily Capitol Hill-flavored period of public comment on the proposed changes. Proponents argued that allowing bars that met certain standards to serve later into the wee hours would eliminate last call binging and the rush of bar patrons into and onto the streets at 2a. Opponents said the initiative was driven by business interests and would spread the maladies of closing time into all hours of the day. The Seattle Times reports that police chiefs in Spokane and Vancouver spoke against the proposal and the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs voted last week to oppose it.
The denial is a blow to Mayor Mike McGinn’s Seattle Nightlife Initiative, an effort to embrace the city’s food and drink economy.
Police were diverting traffic around Eastlake Ave near the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Wednesday morning after a person leapt to their death from the Lakeview Blvd E overpass, a busy connection between Capitol Hill and the Eastlake, Cascade and South Lake Union neighborhoods, below.
The person believed to have jumped in the incident just after 9a was dead by the time crews arrived, according to Seattle Fire. We do not have additional information about the person at this time. A witness CHS spoke with said he found an abandoned backpack on the overpass that was retrieved by police.
Opening day at 12th Ave’s The Local Vine back in 2010 (Image: CHS)
Memorial Day bumped our regularly scheduled programming but our food+drink notes bucket is overflowing. Enjoy this special Wednesday edition. Got a tip? Lay it on us here.
12th Ave “neighborhood wine bar” The Local Vine has shut down a year and a half after moving to Capitol Hill as its original Belltown home started crumbling away.
Neighbor @mattgoyer posted the first sign that things might be amiss Tuesday night via Twitter.
CHS has learned that the 2,500 square-foot space in the Trace Lofts North development is indeed “available immediately” and being actively marketed.
It is adjacent to Barrio Restaurant, across from Plum and Manhattan and just down the street from CHS advertiser High 5 Pie.
The Local VIne’s predecessor in the location was an outlet of the Pizza Fusion franchise which folded in under six months.
The shuttering of The Local Vine represents the second recent food and drink player to make recent big changes on that block of 12th. Across the street, we reported on the shift underway as Manhattan carries forward to re-invent itself as a legitimate steakhouse.
As of Wednesday morning, your neighborhood wine bar is down
At one point, it appeared PIke/Pine was undergoing a purple revolution with the neighborhood awash in plans for wine-related businesses. That has clearly not come to pass — only CHS advertiser Poco remains from that roster.
The Local Vine concept was created by two women who made their names in corporations and dot coms before jumping into the wine bar and retail business. Allison Nelson and Sarah Munson uncorked their concept in Belltown about four years before moving to the Hill and said they were planning to expand to Capitol Hill, not move there when the building problems in their former home surfaced. The Local Vine also opened a location in the University Village.
We’re trying to check in with The Local Vine to learn more about their decision to pack it in on 12th Ave and find out if the company as a whole is shutting down or if the University Village location will continue to operate. The small chain hasn’t put out any public word on the closure beyond the hand-written sign posted by Goyer. The Local Vine isn’t active on social media, has no Facebook pages and its web site is currently “down for maintenance.”
The Seattle Times reports that the State Liquor Board is voting today on Seattle’s “petition to allow local jurisdictions to set service hours. Current state law prohibits alcohol sales between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m.” Predictions?
An artist’s rendering of Q’s Broadway entrance (Image: Q)
With the Social open and doing its thing on E Olive Way, attention turns to the next “ultra lounge” slated to open on Capitol Hill. Q says they’ll be ready in September:
Q opens to the public on Saturday, September 8th at 8PM.
You can follow along with the construction progress on on the club’s FB page:
June 1st will bring the start of private liquor sales in Washington state. We’ll have more on the Capitol Hill end of things as 6/1 arrives. Last week, a re-auction of rights to certain state store locations included the Broadway store re-selling for $365,000 — up from the $255,000 and change it went for online before that buyer backed out. We’re talking to the winning bidder about his plans. Along with the new wave of supermarket booze, the store at 12th and Pine will continue into the post-1183 future as will the store at 23rd and Union.
Ethan Stowell Restaurants still won’t say what the real name of 15th Ave E’s Fifth Quarter is going to be but they are bumping giant chef Brandon Kirksey up the Hill from Tavolata to run the kitchen.Â
Broadway’s Poppy is a finalist in the People’s Choice for an American Institute of Architects Los Angeles restaurant design award. As Poppy’s Jerry Traunfeld says, “Take that yelpers who see danish modern infuenced design and can only think of Ikea.” You can vote here through June 18th.
Speaking of Traunfeld, he’ll join fellow Capitol Hill cook Matt Dillon as well as Renee Erickson and Holly Smith at Wednesday night’s taping of a Seattle edition of “The Great American Chefs Tour.” The $25 tickets are still available here for the Tom Douglas-hosted show.
Food truck Scratch Deli is “temporarily” parking itself on 12th Ave at the People’s Republic of Koffee. Sounds worthy of a visit before it moves back to Wallingford “later this summer.”
The Marination folks have hit another wall in their West Seattle venture.
EVO Tapas happy hour details: “3-5pm featuring $1 off wells, red/white house wines and bottled beer, $2 domestic/$3 imported drafts, $2 off Sangria and draft beer pitchers, and a $5 tapas menu.”
“Altura is not a place to drop by for a casual night out. Best to dine here when the purse strings are loose or the occasion calls for a splurge; the restaurant’s three-course tasting menu is $49. But the food? Mostly marvelous.“
 “I’ll be doing more things in the neighborhood.” What do you suppose Big Mario’s owner Dave Meinert might be up to?
Next Monday, 12th Ave’s Plum is throwing its support behind a more sustainable food system:
The Northwest Farm Bill Action Group is a group of community members who are concerned about the current state of our food system. Our goal is to connect with a diverse alliance of people and organizations in the Pacific Northwest and advocate for a more healthy, sustainable, and equitable food system. Through collaboration, the Northwest Farm Bill Action Group provides a space for Pacific Northwest communities to educate themselves about the upcoming Farm Bill and to cultivate the tools to take action and effect policy change to work for a better food system. We do this by offering educational workshops, relevant online resources, and hosting events focused around our food system. Your donations to the Northwest Farm Bill Action Group through Plum Bistro will go directly to our organizational programming, educational materials, and staff time, so that we can continue our work for a more just and sustainable food system. Thank you!!Â
Where: Plum Bistro When: Monday June 4th 5-10 PM What: Plum is donating 30% of our revenue to the Northwest Farm Bill Action Group
