Ten years and change after opening, lower Pike/Pine French Vietnamese restaurant Stateside is ending its run on Capitol Hill.
The Monday announcement follows last week’s goodbye from neighboring sibling bar Foreign National as it hosted its final customers Thursday night.
Chef and owner Eric Johnson and Stateside partner Seth Hammond didn’t respond to CHS’s inquiries about that abrupt closure.
Eater reports Johnson said only that the lease had run out.
As we reported in the Foreign National obituary, Stateside arrived on Capitol Hill in late 2014 as chef and owner Johnson told CHS he was excited to debut his first food and drink venture amid “the best concentration of restaurants in Seattle.” Five years later, Johnson was honored with a best chef award for the Pacific Northwest region by the James Beard Foundation.
Stateside was born in the early 2010s era of Capitol Hill food and drink complexes that stretched out to fill new preservation-friendly development and adaptive reuse overhauls and opened up old auto row structures to new life. A decade later, the complexes like E Union’s Bateau, one of the biggest 2015 ideas in Capitol Hill food and drink, are shifting and restarting.
What will come next for the 2,400-square-foot restaurant and the accompanying 912 square feet formerly home to Foreign National remains to be seen but Johnson and Hammond have moved on. A listing (PDF) for the 300 E Pike lease is now live.
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Great. The naked homeless guy right next to this place, in front of Victrola can now touch himself without being disturbed by top quality restaurants and their patrons :(
Lmao sad but true
LMAO HOMELESS LOL so epic!!!!!
Your nasty posts are so tiring
Please move to a commune where you and your homeless friends can support each other the way you want to
The rest of us want to live in a city and a society
how come you have to denigrate people with falsehoods? That’s a MAGA trait.
Trump has us in an authoritarian society. So whatever. And you are not affected by it. You just don’t like to see it because you have a business and property values and control issues. Typical MAGA. Make them go away for free because I won’t pay. Unless it’s ICE. Then all the money in America is appropriate.
A society should help people like that man with social safety nets and free health care instead of punching down on them, but I’m guessing you don’t want that sort of society either.
Lol the guy isn’t capable of making any decisions.
Your reply doesn’t make any sense in relation to what I said. Do better if you want to engage in bad faith.
I live across the street, have for years, and I have NEVER seen that guy being inappropriate. normally he just looks tired and sad. I once saw him looking at his reflection in a window and calling himself a piece of shit.
what the hell is wrong with you?
on the internet you can make up anything you like i guess!
Bummer – I really liked Stateside
Sorry to hear, that was a nice place.
Oh wow. Loved that restaurant! Big shoes to fill.