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Correction: It’s a Well-known Authentic Ray’s Scenario
My brother lately despatched me a photograph of an indication at An Nam Pho in Roosevelt. A number of weeks in the past, I had famous that the favored Vietnamese restaurant opened a second location in Wedgwood, however the signal disagreed. “There’s been some confusion recently,” it learn. “We’re the 1st and authentic An Nam Pho on Roosevelt Approach.” It goes on to say they're individually owned and managed from the one on thirty fifth Avenue NE. So, is An Nam identical to Smith for Vietnamese eating places? Not fairly. It’s what I prefer to name a Well-known Authentic Ray’s state of affairs.
In 1959, a person named Ralph Cuomo opened Ray’s Pizza in New York’s Little Italy. When he opened, then bought a second location, the lady who purchased it saved the identify. As numerous eating places expanded, bought, and imitated, all of them riffed on the identify—Authentic Ray’s, World Well-known Ray’s, Actual Ray’s, Well-known Authentic Ray’s.
Nearer to residence, Toshi Kasahara opened the unique Toshi's in 1976 on Queen Anne. He opened Toshi’s Teriyaki Two in Inexperienced Lake in 1980, (managed by a lady named Yasuko Conner, who finally purchased a Toshi’s location and turned it into Yasuko’s), then expanded from there, at one time reaching 17 places. As he backed away from the enterprise, former franchise places and different copycats took over: Toshi’s Teriyaki the Authentic, Toshio’s, Yoshi’s. Immediately, Kasahara cooks at Mill Creek’s Toshi Teriyaki Grill, however his identify lives on at numerous unaffiliated teriyaki eating places round city.
All of which leads as much as a notice that, per the Washington State Division of Income, the An Nam Pho on Roosevelt began out registered to the identical one who now owns the Wedgwood location. The license for the unique location is now within the fingers of another person. In different phrases, it’s a Well-known Authentic Ray’s state of affairs.
Nesting
Brendan McGill’s Seabird flew the coop final month, and this week the chef defined what’s subsequent for the placement and his neighboring storefronts on Bainbridge (Bar Hitchcock and Café Hitchcock). Just like the pattern we noticed in our Greatest New Eating places record, it’s all about versatile, multiuse areas. Kingfisher will open November 15 as an all-day café and boutique, with one part that morphs right into a wine bar within the evenings. “We’re aiming for true blue ‘third place’ vibes,” says McGill in an e-mail. One other a part of the area will serve weekly ticketed dinners, permitting McGill to proceed the high-end, boundary-pushing cooking of Seabird.
Spawning
Talking of tendencies from our Greatest New Eating places, Pioneer Sq. continues to re-rise, once more. We’ve lengthy recognized that Renee Erickson’s Sea Creatures restaurant group was bringing a trio of eating places to the neighborhood’s RailSpur growth, however this week we bought a projected opening month (December) and some extra particulars on what’s coming—the descriptions sound like Erickson’s getting into her mainstream section.
- Lowlander Brewing: A sprawling area serving basic beer corridor delicacies (sausages, fries) and pouring beers straight from the on-site tanks the place they’re brewed.
- Un Po Tipsy: An upscale bar—with pinball—dishing out draft cocktails and canned beers and slinging New York–model pizza by the slice.
- My Oh My: Sea Creatures provides a self-referential description of this 32-seat spot as “Lioness meets the Walrus and the Carpenter,” with a PNW-focused menu and “an intimate, art-filled eating room.”
Closings
- Talking of Sea Creatures: Sandia, close to College Village, will shut on Sunday. Although it wasn’t a part of the corporate, it was a part of the higher Sea Creatures cinematic universe, having taken over the area from Sea Creatures’ Bistro Shirlee, with the corporate’s enterprise supervisor and actual property developer Chad Dale staying on when Nice State Burger proprietor (and former Sea Creatures worker) Nathan Yeager took over.
- Too small, too candy: Although tiny and cute, the considerably restricted hours meant it wasn’t at all times straightforward to get to Fremont’s Hildegard Ferments and Botanicals. Nonetheless, the brewery and apothecary constructed a loyal neighborhood round its quirky drinks and distinctive concoctions. However after three years, the enterprise will shut quickly—they plan to open this Sunday afternoon, and probably a number of extra, per their Instagram.
Openings and Reopenings
- Un petit growth: In 2023, Isak and Cecilia Lystad took over neighborhood staple Madison Park Bakery, and now the couple has expanded to Queen Anne. Mon Chou, their latest enterprise, opened this week within the former High Pot Doughnuts area with espresso and loads of French pastries.
- A grander growth: The bagel store cofounded by a pair of younger UW alums aiming to “disrupt the Seattle bagel scene” continues full-steam forward with Toasted planning to open the long-awaited fourth location in Pioneer Sq. subsequent month, and their fifth and largest location coming to Capitol Hill within the latter half of subsequent yr.
- The circus is again on the town: Carnival-themed Capitol Hill bar Unicorn reopened this week, after a hearth shuttered it again in July, reviews Capitol Hill Seattle.
- Re-fried: The closure of Catfish Nook left an empty area within the Patricia Ok Flats at 23rd and Jackson. Now Capitol Hill Seattle tells us that the oil is scorching once more, this time with Wally’s NW Soul behind the fryer.
- Again to highschool: Beloved basement bar the School Inn Pub has reopened, because the proprietor of upstairs neighbor Café Comfortable has taken over the lease and restored the area, reviews the Puget Sound Enterprise Journal. What a cheerful Halloween for Howard the Ghost!
Oh, BTW, right here’s what you missed final time.