I don’t know man, it’s Friday afternoon and just about all of the information is true there within the headline: Un Bien has a 3rd sandwich store now in Queen Anne, which means that you just now not should schlep to Ballard to get the mini chain’s unbelievable Caribbean meals.
However since we’re all right here, how about some extra particulars? It’s on Galer Road between Third and Fourth avenues and is open now, although in the meanwhile solely from 4 to 9 p.m. so the crew can “work out the little kinks,” says co-owner Lucas Lorenzo. Beginning subsequent Wednesday it’ll be open from 11 a.m. like the opposite two Un Bien places, that are each in Ballard. Not like these retailers, you’ll truly be capable of order inside moderately than going to an out of doors walk-up window — so no extra ready in a line within the rain.
As for the menu, it’ll be precisely the identical, as a result of when you may have Un Bien’s status why mess with something? Massive, sandwiches that includes tender onions and flavor-packed, marinated meat, plus basic Caribbean sides like beans and rice (significantly don’t sleep on the beans).
But when Lucas and his brother, Julian Lorenzo, mastered the artwork of sandwiches a while in the past — their father, Lorenzo Lorenzo, began Paseo, now below new administration after a sophisticated drama — increasing Un Bien has proved harder. Lucas says that the house owners have been working to open the Queen Anne location for 2 and a half years, coping with a protracted building and allowing course of as they transformed a non-restaurant enterprise right into a restaurant.
“I’m by no means gonna do that once more,” Lucas says. “I’m solely shopping for turnkeys [restaurant spaces that require minimal renovation] any further.”
Does that imply Un Bien is in growth mode? Form of, however don’t anticipate a fourth restaurant anytime quickly. “We go actually gradual,” he explains. “A lesson that we realized from witnessing it with different individuals is increasing rapidly and getting forward of your self could cause points. So we’re gonna spend the subsequent 12 months or two dialing this place in, and if it’s being profitable and we’re assured with it, then we would department out elsewhere.”
Un Bien Queen Anne is at 319 W Galer Road and is at present open Wednesdays by means of Sundays, 4 to 9 p.m.
