The fires are out at Samara. The Sundown Hill restaurant from chef Eric Anderson, which specialised in cooking meals on a wood-fired grill, simply closed, Anderson introduced on social media and in his publication.
The closure announcement was quick and supplied few particulars however appeared to acknowledge difficulties associated to the COVID pandemic. “Now we have labored laborious to attempt to rebuild our enterprise and diminish our struggles for the previous 4 years,” Anderson wrote, “however the bumpy street has taken fairly a toll and over the previous few weeks issues have been coming aside too shortly for us to have the ability to get well and proceed.”
Anderson opened Samara in 2019, not lengthy earlier than the outbreak of the pandemic, after 5 years at Tom Douglas’s well-known Palace Kitchen. From the beginning he drew raves for his wood-fired cooking, with the Seattle Instances writing in a glowing evaluation that he might “lasso hearth.” Essentially the most well-known dish at Samara was the Dungeness crab, which was locations on topped of a charred rice cake and served with tarragon and some drops of super-concentrated crab sauce.
Up till lately Samara had posted often on Instagram and its web site remains to be stay, however in response to the announcement it’s now closed — that means that should you had been hoping to have one final meal there, you’ve already had it. Eater Seattle reached out to Anderson for extra particulars however didn’t hear again. We’ll replace this submit if we get extra data.
