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Hungry for news? Welcome to our Friday Feed, where we run through all the local food and restaurant news this week—and maybe help you figure out where to eat this weekend.
Uncle Dom, the inspiration for Pike Street Hospitality Group’s upcoming Italian restaurant, is the kid in the back center here.
Vito’s 2: Red Sauce Boogaloo?
Pike Street Hospitality Group, which started out with Tango on Capitol Hill and now includes Agua Verde Café, Honeyhole, and Rumba, among others, announced two new additions to its space on Summit and E Pine. Earlier this year, the group opened Cantina del Sol and Double O’ Burgers in the building; now it adds two new spots to the collection, each with a bit of Capitol Hill history behind it. Bar Tango, opening in early October, is an ode to the original Tango in “a more intimate form.” Uncle Dom’s Italian Kitchen, opening later in October, pays homage to the old-school Italian restaurant in general and specifically to those that once stood on Capitol Hill and nearby. Like, say, Vito’s, the restaurant where Uncle Dom’s chef Michael Crossley ran the kitchen. If only someone could find Barbara the cougar, all would be right with the world. Maybe there’s an Etsy witch for that?
Meals on High
Like most locals, I go up the Space Needle only when required by out-of-town guests, so I had not fully clocked that the Loupe Lounge is a seasonal offering and not just sporadically open. After the Space Needle closed for renovations in 2017, it did away with the gimmicky SkyCity restaurant (remember the lunar orbiter dessert?), and now—for part of the year, at least—we have the gimmicky Loupe Lounge.
The rotating floor cocktail ~experience~ reopened for “the season” this week, and should you have $200 per person burning a hole in your pocket, please let me know how it is. The price, which is $150 plus tax and service fee and must be paid upon (required) reservation, includes three cocktails, which you get to drink while slowly rotating, and one of the signature “towers” of small plates featuring luxury ingredients (Wagyu beef, caviar, truffles). Just going up the Space Needle is $50, and cocktails probably run $20 apiece, so if you are a person who can—and wants to—drink three cocktails in two hours, it might seem more reasonable. I am not that person, but I would like to have one cocktail with someone who is, just to hear about the experience.
Serafina sibling Cicchetti returns to regular operation next week.
Ear to the Ground
- Speaking of tourist attractions: Pike Place Market ice cream parlor Shug’s Soda Fountain will be closing its original location on September 28 as it moves to a new location, also in the Market. No word yet on the opening date or location for the new spot.
- Speaking of resurrections: Serafina sibling Cicchetti, which shut down during the early pandemic and has remained closed to diners since, will reopen on Tuesday, September 23. The dining room and menu each got a little polish, but the general concept—Mediterranean small plates—remains the same.
- Pun fun: Six-year-old pizza truck In Pizza We Crust is settling down with a brick-and-mortar shop opening on September 24 in West Seattle’s Admiral Junction.
- More manti: Renton Turkish restaurant and occupant of a former Pietro’s Pizza Café Sabah will open its second location in Kirkland on Saturday.
Oh, BTW, here’s what you missed last time.