Certainly one of Seattle’s most well-known diners is in the marketplace. This week John Bennett, the proprietor of West Seattle’s Luna Park Cafe, advised West Seattle Weblog that after 35 years he’s seeking to retire and promoting the enterprise. “It’s time to go the torch,” he advised the weblog. “I’m in search of somebody who will preserve it going as it’s for one more 35 years or extra. The restaurant is doing effectively and I believe somebody may step in and take it over with out skipping a beat.”
Bennett began up the Luna Park Cafe in 1989, taking on the house from a infamous and run-down bar referred to as Pat and Ron’s. He constructed it right into a neighborhood establishment that serves diner classics and is adorned in an opulent retro-kitsch model. The identify refers to a seedy amusement park that closed within the early 1900s then burned down in 1913; the diner’s brand, a vaguely satanic wanting determine, was one of many entertainers there. Luna Park Cafe isn’t only a quirky little diner, it’s additionally a hyperlink, nonetheless tenuous, to Seattle historical past.
events can view the itemizing right here. The asking worth is $250,000.
A sports activities bar chain is coming to Pioneer Sq.
The Denver-based chain Tom’s Watch Bar is taking on the downtown house most not too long ago occupied by Burbs Burgers, the Puget Sound Enterprise Journal studies. Burbs closed earlier this yr after declaring chapter; earlier than that the handle was dwelling to High quality Athletics, which like Burbs was owned by notable Seattle restaurateur Josh Henderson. Tom’s, the Journal writes, “payments itself as a contemporary sports activities bar that caters to each female and male followers.” Lastly, a spot for each fellas and girls!
A lodge is celebrating its birthday by serving outdated meals
The Fairmont Olympic Lodge is celebrating its one hundredth birthday this yr — a fairly important milestone since Seattle itself isn’t even 200 years outdated. The downtown lodge is marking that landmark with a bunch of specials at its eating places and bars, together with a $100 cocktail at its speakeasy-esque Founders Membership (it has eaux-de-vie aged as much as 100 years and Louis XIII Cognac). It’s also serving a prix fixe menu at its flagship restaurant, the George, the place the dishes are based mostly on these present in archival menus and embody parts like cognac cream sauce and grape verjus (the midpoint between grape juice and vinegar). Go right here for extra particulars.
Rainier Beer is bringing again “R-Day”
Rainier Beer, the somehow-local-even-though-its-not-brewed-here-anymore lager model, is as soon as once more placing on its R-Day music competition on September 21 on the streets across the authentic Rainier brewery, on Airport Means between Doris and Nebraska streets. Musical acts embody the Allah-Las, SHEER MAG, and native punksters MONSTERWATCH, and Prometheus Brown, the Seattle rapper and DJ finest recognized for being half of Blue Students, will probably be doing a DJ set. There will probably be meals vans, a merch desk, video games on the “R-Cade,” and naturally a beer backyard.
