Kate Opatz is rebooting her latest bar — actually, she’s turning it off, ready a bit, and turning it on once more.
In February, Opatz opened the second location of La Dive, her widespread wine bar, in Queen Anne. At first, she had excessive hopes for the area. The La Dive logos have been there, like chambongs and floor-to-ceiling mirrors, however the brand new location additionally had extra expansive meals choices than on the authentic Capitol Hill La Dive and a speakeasy-style bar known as Wealthy Wealthy subsequent door. However La Dive Queen Anne has apparently been struggling: In July, it downsized its meals menu and began serving meals from Mamnoon, however only a month later that hasn’t labored out both.
Based on an Instagram submit this week, La Dive Queen Anne will likely be closing on August 17. But it surely doesn’t imply the area will likely be empty — on September 1, Opatz will exchange La Dive with the second location of Montana, the bar she based with Rachel Marshall of Rachel’s Ginger Beer. So lengthy pure wine, hey cocktails on faucet. (Wealthy Wealthy will stay open.)
The meals menu is getting rejiggered as properly. Stepping as much as present meals will likely be Yalla, the favored Capitol Hill Center Jap takeout window. It’ll be a “new idea,” in response to Yalla proprietor Taylor Cheney, with a brand new title that she isn’t able to reveal. It’ll give attention to “mezzes (small plates) and desserts,” Cheney stated by textual content.
“Assume something from Egyptian stuffed falafel, hummus with inexperienced chili salsa, batata harra (spicy Lebanese fried potatoes) pickled eggplant, kibbeh and extra,” she added. “For desserts, enjoyable ice cream flavors like mastica and orange blossom mint lemonade, different classics like kunafa and Awami (donuts with rose water syrup).”
Cheney was behind efforts to get the Seattle restaurant group to lift cash for the Palestinian Kids’s Reduction Fund, and she or he plans to proceed her charitable bent on the new location — each month it is going to donate the proceeds of a unique mezze or dessert to a charity, the primary of which would be the humanitarian nonprofit HEAL Palestine.
