Seattle’s Capitol Hill Neighborhood Has a New Rooftop Bar Known as Cantina del Sol

It’s rooftop season! As we famous final week, the Populus Lodge in Pioneer Sq. opened in the present day, Might 22, with a brand new rooftop bar known as Firn. Capitol Hill has a brand new rooftop bar too: Known as Cantina del Sol, it’s a shiny, semi-covered area that sits atop the constructing on Pine and Summit that used to be Mercado Luna. When you went out in Capitol Hill you in all probability know the constructing — it had an enormous “TACOS FOR THE PEOPLE” signal going through the road and housed a rooftop bar in addition to a takeout window, a wine store, and the long-running restaurant Mezcaleria Oaxaca.

It closed down in 2024 and the area was snapped up by Travis Rosenthal’s Pike Avenue Hospitality Group (PSHG), which owns a number of bars and eating places, together with the Capitol Hill sandwich store HoneyHole. A consultant for PSHG says that the constructing may have 4 “distinct food and drinks areas,” the primary of which is Cantina del Sol.

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The brand new bar has a shiny colour palette. Tacos are served out of a pink Sixties camp trailer, and the drinks embrace a pink prickly pear margarita and a shiny inexperienced lime margarita. (The tacos, by the way in which, are going to function the identical handmade tortillas as Aqua Verde Cafe, one other PSHG restaurant.) Will probably be open from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. on weekdays (and till midnight Friday evening), and from 11 a.m. on weekends, when it would serve a menu of brunchy objects together with chilaquiles. Cantina del Sol is open now, and the three different ideas that may replenish the constructing will likely be introduced later.

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Ballard’s new H Mart is nearly right here

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