It was born as Spice Box in 2020 before changing its name to Spice Bliss

(image: Spice Bliss)

When the Pride Place building opened last year, it brought the promise of affordable, LGBTQIA+ focused senior living to Broadway between Pike and Pine. It also created new space for neighborhood businesses.

The first to be lined up to join that mix will be  familiar neighbor to the project.

Broadway’s tiny Spice Bliss is making plans to move across the street, according to city records.

The Indian restaurant that has grown as a favorite delivery option out of the pandemic era is now making plans to spread out in a much larger new restaurant space on the street level of Pride Place where it will neighbor the senior center and offices of GenPride below the Building’s more than 100 apartments.

It is a big move for Spice Bliss which squeezed itself into existence at the height of the COVID-19 crisis in 2020.  Chef/owners Jagminder Singh and Navjit Singh worked as Uber and Lyft drivers and leaned on their family experience in the restaurant business to open the  project on the east side of Broadway in a former Taco Del Mar.

Spice Bliss has built its following offering a full menu of Indian classics along with options including wraps and burgers.

It was originally knowns as Spice Box when it opened in 2020

The move will also put the Pride Place side of the street back into motion with businesses. The development replaced the long vacant Atlas Clothing building and the landmarked auto row-era Eldridge Tire Company building which had housed Tacos Guaymas and Folicle Hair Design.

Remnants of the Eldridge building remain incorporated in Pride Place’s commercial level. With a landmark designation, the new building kept the old Mission Revival-styled structure’s facade while preservation incentives help boost the project’s unit count.

The remaining Eldridge Tire Company components are landmarked

The Mission Revival elements have remained in place as the new building rose around them. The design called for new tiles to be added to the preservation structure’s roof to mimic the classical earthen red look of the past.

Work is just beginning. Over the coming months, paperwork and a build-out of the new space will be completed and Spice Bliss will finally be able to stretch out.

In the meantime, it will continue to serve the neighborhood across the street from its future home.

Spice Bliss is currently located at 1520 Broadway. You’ll find it across the street at 1519 Broadway… soon. Learn more at spiceboxseattlewa.com.

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