Stately Canlis has put apart its typical sedate Pacific Northwest dark-whatever colours and is now a startling pink. The famed effective eating restaurant did the paint job late final week and let the anticipation (and confusion) construct for a pair days, then introduced over the weekend what the deal was: It was a Barbie-themed occasion that may occur on the restaurant on August 9 and 10.
Or, as Canlis put it on Instagram, “An enormous blowout dance social gathering on the Canlis dream home. Stay music! Pink drinks! Curler skating! Horses!”
Eager-eyed readers might discover that the phrase “Barbie” doesn’t seem anyplace in that announcement. That’s as a result of, the Seattle Occasions stories, this isn’t formally linked to the Mattel firm or the Greta Gerwig mega-blockbuster. “The Canlis brothers aren’t copping that it is a Barbie playland,” the Occasions writes, “however proprietor Brian Canlis quipped that they’re ‘enormous followers’ of the 2023 film of the identical title, and that he might see why folks may assume Kenlis is ‘impressed by the world of Barbie.’”
Tickets go on sale at canlis.com Monday, June 15 (at this time), at 2 p.m. for $270 apiece. Meals and drinks are included, plus you get to see what the within of that wild pink restaurant will appear like — in accordance with the Occasions, there will likely be a dance flooring with bubbles and glitter plus a “9-foot slide from the higher stage that shoots right down to the primary flooring.” A few of the proceeds from the social gathering will go to the Fred Hutch Most cancers Heart and Susan G Komen, a breast most cancers group that has generally been accused of “pinkwashing.” (Government chef Aisha Abraham’s grandmother died of breast most cancers earlier this 12 months.)
This isn’t the primary time Canlis has remodeled itself lately — on the onset of the COVID pandemic, as lockdown measures went into place, the 70-plus-year-old restaurant reinvented itself as a takeout operation.