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New Galerie Orsay Paris-Seattle brings a French connection to Broadway

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(Image: CHS)

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Like many first-time Seattle visitors, Simon Lhopiteau was struck by the city’s natural beauty when he first visited five years ago.

“Between the mountains and the water, what I recall is being able to breathe good, fresh air,” Lhopiteau, an art historian, curator, and dealer, recently recalled. “In Paris, it doesn’t exist.”

After moving from Paris to Seattle two years later with his husband, Romain Darde, an international contract attorney at Blue Origin, the vibrant, active, and open-minded art community inspired him to open Galerie Orsay Paris-Seattle on Capitol Hill.

Located in the Loveless Building at the north end of Broadway’s commercial strip, the gallery occupies the vacated storefront occupied for 10 years by the clothing company Freeman. It’s an expansion of Lhopiteau’s Paris gallery, which he opened in 2004.

“When we were considering moving to Seattle, I thought about either getting older in my gallery in Paris or getting younger with a new adventure and a new gallery in Seattle,” Lhopiteau, 59, explained. “I chose to get younger!” Continue reading →

The French Guys bakery shop starts second year on Capitol Hill with growth, new sweets, and, yes, Pride croissants

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The French Guys bakery shop is beginning its second year on Capitol Hill with a new baking facility, new menu, and Pride croissants available every weekend at the E Roy counter and cafe.

Making room for the right mix of fresh daily offerings has been part of the learning that has taken place over the first year of business for The French Guys in a brick and mortar location on Capitol Hill after growing as Seattle’s first mobile French bakery.

“The store is tiny and there is not a lot of space so we need to be creative for that, Thibault Beaugende said.

Beaugende also says The French Guys still love their E Roy home in the historic Loveless Building.

“The building speaks for itself,” Beaugende says. “It’s really rare to find in Seattle… the European charm.”

The Loveless will turn 100 next year but The French Guys shop is now one year old — and counting. The second year of business comes with major growth for The French Guys as owners Beaugende and Renaud Lacipiere have moved into a larger, much improved new baking facility. The new space brings new opportunities to grow their baked creations they continue to deliver to cafes and restaurants, as well as supplying its popular presence at Seattle farmers markets and the Capitol Hill bakery shop. Continue reading →

Capitol Hill food+drink | Cook/Weaver will revive Loveless space with ‘inauthentic Eurasian’ menu

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The Loveless Building murals from when Olivar occupied the space. (Image: Suzi Pratt)

The murals are staying.

As Nile Klein and Zac Reynolds prepare to write the next chapter of the historic Loveless Building on E Roy, the first question from neighbors passing by has been about their plans for the space’s intricate wall-to-wall paintings.

“The murals are our number one priority,” Klein told CHS. “It’s a beautiful and very interesting gem.”

Those familiar with the 19th Century Russian poem that inspired the murals could have guessed Cook/Weaver would be incorporating the paintings. The Alexander Pushkin poem tells the story of three sisters: a cook, a weaver, and a wife. Continue reading →

$$$$ Restaurant Marron exits the Loveless Building

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There has been another summer food and drink closure on Capitol Hill but this one may not be the end for the restaurant involved.

Restaurant Marron has closed its doors in Capitol Hill’s Loveless Building just a little more than two years after bringing its $$$$ tasting menu format with 16-course, small-bite creations to E Roy. Continue reading →