We have told you a bit about the new food+drink life playing out inside Capitol Hill’s classic Loveless Building but we haven’t shown you what Cook Weaver looks like yet. Here are a few scenes from inside.
Cook Weaver from Nile Klein and chef Zac Reynolds opened in December with the promise of a comfortable dinner party for you and your neighbors. “The type of food and cocktails are at home in fine dining,” Klein said, “But we want it to feel like a dinner party with friends.”
For a backdrop, the building’s old murals are back on display. Alexander Pushkin’s 19th Century Russian poem that inspired the paintings tells the story of three sisters — a cook, a weaver, and a wife — and involves a swan-turned-princess.
Cook Weaver is located at 806 E Roy. It is now open daily from 3 PM to 10 PM — 11:45 PM on Fridays and Saturdays. You can learn more at cookweaver.com.
Capitol Hill food+drink notes
- RIP Charlie’s. Again. The name stays with the building, though. Could rise again!
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We stopped by to start the new year with some hearty bowls of soup at newly opened Marmite. Eater reports that their full lunch menu has now been deployed.
- Neumos closed for two-month overhaul, Moe’s getting new concept, and Capitol Hill Paseo just about maybe almost going to open.
- The Capitol Hill-ification of U-Village is underway. Rachel’s Ginger Beer is moving in.
- Ba Bar, too
Ba Bar will open third location: In U Village. In July. in old Liam's spot. @UVillage @babarseattle #pho
— tanvinhseattle (@tanvinhseattle) January 9, 2017
- The Redwood has a closing date.
- The Hideout has a champion bartender.
- Optimism has great bathrooms. And turns one next week!
- Unicorn has a lot of Lyft customers.
- Katsu Burger: now open.
- More Capitol Hill ramen. Tentenyu coming to Pike/Pine.
- Street Treats will go brick and mortar in the Central District.
- Bar Melusine hosting Anti-Defamation League fundraiser on Donald Trump’s January 20th inauguration day.
- Capitol Hill restaurant owners talk about the latest minimum wage milestone.
- Spotted: Comic Hari Kondabolu at 14th and Jeff’s L’Oursin
Having a drink at L'oursin (1315 E. Jefferson) in Seattle with forever my friends & roommates @samgterry, @TobyCrittenden & @TomShortliffe. pic.twitter.com/YJ3uUcOTYx
— Hari Kondabolu (@harikondabolu) January 11, 2017
- Where did Angela Davis stop through after her Thursday night MLK celebration appearance at Town Hall? Ba Bar
Restaurant Marron did. It cover the murals so they are not “on display again.” They were never off display.
This got me thinking about the first time that I was there, which was in the late 1980’s when it was Byzantion. If you have never been in the space, the Pushkin illustrations on the wall are worth any trip (the background at Cook Weaver’s website shows some of them: http://www.cookweaver.com). These beautiful paintings were created when the restaurant space first opened in 1931 as The Russian Samovar. Here is a fairly complete list of what has been in that space and when it opened (question marks denote lack of specific date)
The Loveless Bldg. (originally The Studio Bldg.)
Restaurant space at 806 E. Roy St.
The Russian Samovar (1931-1970’s?)
Byzantion (late 1970’s?-early 1980’s?)
Bacchus (mid-1990’s?)
Fork (2006)
Coco La Ti Da (2007)
Olivar (2008)
Marron (2014)
Cook Weaver (2017)