A popular Pike/Pine cafe space has cracked open a new life as a Capitol Hill beer hall and bottle shop.
The Last Drop has expanded from its Maple Leaf neighborhood roots and is now open on E Pike in the former home of Alaska-based coffee company Kaladi Brothers.
The new beer venue includes plenty of tables and chairs with creations from multiple breweries on tap plus bottles and cans for purchase. It fits into the area’s beer community just a little more bottle shop than the Pine Box on the Chuck’s end of the beer bar spectrum.
CHS reported here in January on the plans for Seattle beer and pub entrepreneur Seth Howard to open in the the two-level cafe space in the 500 block of E Pike. Howard is also part of ownership behind 2nd Ave’s Collins Pub and the College Inn Pub in the U District.
The Last Drop joins a Capitol Hill block that has been filling in with new businesses but will someday be redeveloped. The 1910-built, two-story commercial structure was very nearly the tallest building on Pike before the neighborhood’s booming auto row claimed it from residential development more than 100 years ago. Developer Hunters Capital and architects Meng Strazza have plans to maintain the existing façade along Pike and Boylston. Above will eventually rise a 9-story, preservation bonus-boosted building with 92 residential units atop 7,500 square feet of commercial space. The new building would eventually rise adjacent to Hunters Capital’s Dunn Motor Building, which opened in 2016, after engaging in a similar façade preservation.
For now, businesses like The Last Drop are putting the old auto row-era bones to good use. The Late Night Vintage Market moved in two years ago while fashion retailer Standard Goods has made the block its home after a short 2021 move.
The Last Drop is now open at 517 E Pike. Learn more at thelastdropseattle.com.
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