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Inspection finds brick façade ‘stable’ at shuttered 15th Ave E restaurant building

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City officials say the brick facade of the building at the center of the sudden closure of three 15th Ave E businesses has been determined to be safe.

“Our building inspection team evaluated the brick façade on E. Harrison Ave (sic). and found the condition appears stable and does not indicate an ongoing safety hazard to the public,” a spokesperson for the Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections tells CHS. “A Hazard Correction Order will not be issued.”

CHS reported on the review and concerns about crumbling brick on the building’s south side as Rione XIII, Rubinstein Bagels, and Bar Vacilando announced their sudden closures last week citing lease and unspecified building issues.

In August, crumbling bricks were reported along the 96-year-old structure’s E Harrison-side masonry facade. Continue reading →

Bar Cantinetta, the only new* restaurant on Capitol Hill in 2025

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The year’s restaurant, cafe, and bar news around Capitol Hill cannot be complete without telling more about the story of Bar Cantinetta, one of the few completely new dining spaces created in Seattle’s core this year.

In uncertain times, it has helped that the ideas behind Cantinetta were time tested and familiar to the area. Bar Cantinetta was a much loved part of a nearby neighborhood for a decade.

“The Madison valley neighborhood served us very well, and we were there for 10 years,” owner Trevor Greenwood explained.

Bar Cantinetta is now reborn on Capitol Hill’s growing 15th Ave E, bringing Tuscan culinary traditions and a commitment to neighborhood dining to the changing street in one of the new buildings that has risen there.

 

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The restaurant represents the latest venture from majority owner Greenwood, who has built a local restaurant empire centered on Italian cuisine and community values. Continue reading →

15th Ave E merchants to host Capitol Hill Holiday Wine Walk

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The 15th Ave E business community is holding a new holiday event this year to celebrate the season and the neighborhood.

The Capitol Hill Holiday Wine Walk will take place next week with a Thursday night of pop-up tasting rooms hosted by the street’s shops and small businesses:

Capitol Hill Holiday Wine Walk

Thursday, December 11, 2025

5:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Tickets: Advance – $30 | Door – $40 (If still available)

Get your Holiday spirit going early and taste some of Washington’s finest wines while checking out local merchants on the bustling 15th Ave. E District in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. Attendees receive tasting tickets to redeem for the wines of their choice from 15 local wineries located at pop-up tasting rooms hosted by area retailers featuring a variety of regional wines. A fun activity to do with friends during the holidays and the perfect opportunity to buy your loved ones delicious gifts that they can share with you – all tax-free!

15th Ave E’s stretch of shopping destinations is also on CHS’s 2025 Shop the Hill map along with walkable shopping areas across the Hill:

Haunted Burrow

15th Ave E

  • Windthrow: A shop specializing in “nice things for outside,” featuring functional and stylish outdoor gear and apparel.
  • Haunted Burrow Books: A new independent bookstore focusing on horror, weird fiction, and the occult.
  • Ada’s Technical Books: A destination for science/tech books, puzzles, and geeky-chic gifts.
  • Station 7: A home and gift shop in a converted fire station, selling vintage items and art.
  • Thistle & Poppy: A family-run shop with kids’ goods, toys, and “reloved” vintage.
  • Creature Consignment: A stylish, boutique-like consignment shop for women’s clothing.
  • The Shop Agora: A European-style market with an excellent retail selection of wine and specialty gifts.
  • Red Balloon: Toys, gifts, cards, and, yes, balloons.
  • EVS — UPDATE! : “Best wine shop in Seattle…”


Shop local, shop the Hill: 60+ places to walk and shop on Capitol Hill

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

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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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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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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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