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After a decade in Madison Valley, Bar Cantinetta has moved up to Capitol Hill

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(Image: Bar Cantinetta)

(Image: Bar Cantinetta)

Bar Cantinetta has moved up.

Shuttered in Madison Valley in 2023, the bar is the latest addition to Capitol Hill’s 15th Ave E, debuting this week in a beautiful buildout of the showpiece corner restaurant spot in the Capitol HIlltop mixed-use development.

“Cantinetta is known for honoring Tuscan culinary traditions with hand-made pastas and seasonal, locally sourced ingredients from the Pacific Northwest,” one announcement reads.

CHS reported a year ago October on the plans for the project as the restaurant family prepared to reopen the popular bar that previously been part of the area.

The corner used to be the site of the neigbhorhood’s HIlltop Service Station.

Cantinetta owner Trevor Greenwood knows the Central Seattle food and drink scene well. The original Bar Cantinetta closed in 2023 after a decade serving Madison Valley. Continue reading →

Punk Rock Flea Market returns to Capitol Hill’s Quality Flea Center

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The Punk Rock Flea Market will rock 15th Ave E again this weekend.

The end of summer edition of the PRFM returns Friday, Saturday, and Sunday to the emptied neighborhood QFC it has been keeping active and in motion while developers wait to eventually dig in on a new mixed-use development on the street.

The transformed “Quality Flea Center” has also been the home of the CHASM Capitol Hill Autonomous Swap Meet every third Saturday as well as a random mix of events and markets.

It stands at the center of a block of temporary activity developer Hunters Capital has assembled while it waits for permits, construction crews, and financial conditions to align so it can someday demolish the block and dig in on a planned six-story development.

CHS reported here on the temporary stay for art and cafe space LOVECITYLOVE on the block. Another smaller commercial space is home to a temporary pop-up of Haunted Burrow Books and its offerings of “horror, dark fantasy, sci-fi, and other moody genres.”

Not everything new on 15th is temporary. Mac and Milo’s Barbershop has opened in the former Casita International Gift Shop space.

 

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With two Capitol Hill stylists ready to make their own space, Mac and Milo’s Barbershop opening on 15th Ave E

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Mac and Milo’s (Image: CHS)

By Domenic Strazzabosco

A duo of Capitol Hill hair stylists are ready to set out on their own after building careers in the beauty industry’s mix of chain salons and rented chairs.

Alyssa “Aly Mac” McCowan and Myles McGehee are now ready to open their own three-chair studio on 15th Ave E, aptly named Mac and Milo’s Barbershop.

“I knew I always wanted to get up to the Hill for my business,” McGehee tells CHS. “I wanted to be in a part of the city where people actually live, not just the place where they come in and out of for work.” Continue reading →

A visit to Haunted Burrow Books, Capitol Hill’s horror and dark fantasy book shop

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This literary spirit is pretty fun in corporeal form. Haunted Burrow Books has made a spooky story-filled home on 15th Ave E.

A recent power outage helped set the appropriate mood in the bustling commercial district on the top of Capitol Hill. Inside Haunted Burrow, a reading group gathered, divining with tarot cards “in the back of the store by electronic candlelight.” Continue reading →

Capitol Hill Uncle Ike’s hit in another Seattle smash and grab pot shop burglary

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Thanks to a CHS reader for the picture and the tip!

Just days after one Capitol Hill marijuana store reopened after three months and $300,000 of work to rebuild its storefront, another neighborhood pot shop was nailed in a smash and grab burglary early Friday morning.

Police were called to the 15th Ave E Uncle Ike’s just before 1:45 AM to the crash and reports of three to five suspects quickly loading merchandise into another vehicle. Arriving officers found a silver sedan smashed into the front of the Uncle Ike’s and tracked down a blue Chevy Impala with the suspects fleeing the scene.

Police followed the Impala onto Broadway but did not engage in a high speed pursuit as the vehicle sped northbound from Mercer, according to East Precinct radio updates. Continue reading →

The Capitol Hill Quality Flea Center lives on in 2025 with the return of the Punk Rock Flea Market

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No construction cranes over Capitol Hill might mean rents are going to keep going up.

But they’re not tearing your favorite bar down.

And the Quality Flea Center will be around for another year on 15th Ave E.

The organizers behind the Punk Rock Flea Market have made official what was already pretty damn clear: The old Capitol Hill QFC the market started calling home isn’t going to be demolished any time soon.

The PRFM is returning to the QFC this month: Continue reading →

‘A home for curious readers,’ Nook & Cranny book shop makes new start off Capitol Hill

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Attendees at Nook & Cranny’s final book club on Capitol Hill (Image: Nook & Cranny)

Capitol Hill has lost a bookstore. Nook & Cranny has packed up its bibliotherapeutic shelves and is nearly ready to open in its new home in a new development in the University Heights neighborhood.

CHS reported here in January as owner Maren Comendant announced the 15th Ave E book shop had lost its lease and was on the hunt for a new location with the help of a community fundraising campaign.

Comendant created Nook & Cranny in the summer of 2022. What if you read about a Capitol Hill bookstore for sale — and bought it? Comendant can tell you. She purchased the business after reading about its previous iteration going up for sale on CHS.

Costs eventually outstripped profit on 15th Ave E and the bookseller’s search took her to Northeast Seattle. Nook & Cranny wound down with its final Capitol Hill book club taking place as March faded — “a lively discussion about Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn.”

With the 15th Ave E shop now dark and empty and awaiting whatever business joins the neighborhood next, Comendant says Nook & Cranny could be open any day in its new spot with plans for an official grand opening on April 26th’s Independent Bookstore Day.

Nook & Cranny will open soon at 5637 University Way NE. Learn more at nookandcrannybooks.com.

 

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Police search for suspects after Tesla set on fire on Capitol Hill’s 15th Ave E — UPDATE

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Seattle Fire rushed to the scene and Seattle Police officers were collecting evidence including a red gas can ditched as a suspect ran from the scene after a Tesla was reportedly doused with gasoline and set on fire on 15th Ave E Thursday night.

The incident began unfolding around 8:15 PM as a 911 caller reported a male had thrown gas on the Tesla parked near 15th and Harrison and lit the vehicle on fire. As Seattle Fire arrived to handle the flames, SPD was pursuing two suspects reported fleeing on foot from the area wearing black clothing and face coverings.

This image of the singed car was posted to the CHS Facebook Group

According to East Precinct radio reports, witnesses reported the males fleeing on foot eastbound on Thomas. Police were able to track down one possible suspect after making a stop of a Metro bus but the male could not be immediately identified as a suspect by a witness. It is not clear if the male was released or remained in custody.

Police found a discarded red gas can and a white bag in front of nearby Overcast Coffee at 15th and John. Officers were also collecting video evidence from nearby businesses.

According to radio updates, the white 2022 Model S Tesla is registered to a Tacoma address.

There were no reported injuries.

15th Ave E was closed to traffic during the response. The vehicle was being towed with fire damage to its right side and front from the scene around 10 PM as the smell of smoke still hung in the air along the busy commercial district.

The reported intentional fire comes amid reports of incidents targeting Tesla cars and Cybertrucks across the country as backlash against company CEO Elon Musk and frustration around Department of Government Efficiency cuts to the federal government as the billionaire has become a trusted advisor during the second Trump administration. Earlier this week in Seattle, multiple Tesla Cybertrucks burned in an incident still under investigation.

UPDATE: According to police, they have security images of the suspect who lit the fire.

12th Ave apartment fire
Seattle Fire was also busy Thursday night with an apartment building near 12th and Denny. SFD was called to the address of the Heather Court Apartments just before 10 PM. SFD says the fire was quickly brought under control and contained to one unit in the 10-unit, 1950s-era building.

 

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A passing of the torch at The Shop Agora as 15th Ave E wine shop’s manager is new owner

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From old owner to new (Image: The Shop Agora)

By Matt Dowell

The Shop Agora, 15th Ave’ Es Mediterranean food and wine shop, has changed ownership. New owner Katlynn Roumeliotis wants to continue Agora’s more-than-a-decade-long history as a neighborhood hangout with delicious pours.

“We’ll emphasize things we’ve already been doing. We’ll continue building programs like fun events and tastings.”

Roumeliotis is quite familiar with the shop and its community. She’s been with Agora since the Capitol Hill location’s opening in 2011 and has managed the shop for much of that time.

“I’ve been living and breathing the place for a long time. It’s a pretty natural evolution for me, it felt the same way for the owners, and it’s a natural progression for the shop.” Continue reading →

In new deal for 100-year-old former Coastal Kitchen, Fire Tacos & Cantina set to join Capitol Hill

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The 15th Ave E building formerly home to longtime Capitol Hill favorite Coastal Kitchen turned 100 years old this year. It will end 2024 with a new owner — and a new restaurant set to join the neighborhood.

The 4,000 or so-square-foot restaurant has sold for $2.1 million to real estate investor Thomas Lin, according to county records. A Capitol Hill expansion of food truck and Alki Beach-born Fire Tacos & Cantina is set to move in, city permits indicate.

The Puget Sound Business Journal first reported the deal last week. The PSBJ says Fire could open as early as November given the restaurant’s turn-key status — though other permitting and things like a liquor license might require a longer timeline

The restaurant has been empty in the heart of 15th Ave E since February when Coastal closed after 30 years of business and weekend brunch lines. Continue reading →