After two years of permitting and construction, Otherworld Wine Bar is opening its doors on Capitol Hill and helping to bring new life to this corner of upper Pike/Pine.
With a successful soft opening over the weekend behind them, owners Matt Lucas and Ben Chaykin are more than ready to start popping corks for Capitol Hill customers. Tired of the process, but happy to be open, Lucas tells CHS, “it’s been a really good reception.”
This is the first business for the partners Lucas and Chaykin, but thanks to their Juice Club pop-up events, they already have a following.
“We were able to kind of like, take what we did at those clubs and create somewhat of a small community through those events,” Lucas said. “And now we’re lucky to open up an entire space.”
Both call Capitol Hill home, so they were happy to accidentally stumble across the opportunity. CHS reported here way back in December of 2021 on the early plans for Otherworld as part of an overhaul and revival of an old commercial building where 14th Ave meets Pike and Madison. The new Otherworld space is part of an afterlife, indeed, for the 114-year-old building home to plenty of neighborhood ghosts. The project from Coldwell Banker Bain Capitol Hill turned the one-time auto row-era grocery into new offices for the real estate firm and a space for the wine bar. Continue reading