International Working Women’s Day March circles Cal Anderson with calls for Palestinian solidarity

Friday night’s International Working Women’s Day March on Capitol Hill included a focus on the war in Gaza and Palestinian solidarity.

“Women, especially women of color, have been at the forefront of many movements throughout the ears and have led the way to fight for a better world,” said Christina López of the Seattle branch of the Radical Women organization that helped organize Friday’s event. “And we will continue to do so as horrific events call on us to keep on struggling and keep on fighting.” Continue reading

‘Capitol Hill’s #1’ teriyaki joint is immortal — Welcome Teriyaki & Wok ‘back’ to Broadway

One cannot measure the life of “Capitol Hill’s #1” teriyaki joint as a simple instant. This is a multiverse.

Last month, CHS bid goodbye to Broadway’s Teriyaki & Wok as its longtime owners announced they had sold the business and were taking their 14 years of Broadway restaurant experience to Federal Way.

This month, we ask you to say hello. Continue reading

Three injured in shooting at Capitol HIll’s Garage Billiards

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Three people were injured late Saturday night in a shooting at Capitol HIll’s Garage Billiards. Police say one victim was in critical condition.

According to East Precinct radio updates, police and Seattle Fire were called to the Broadway business south north of Madison just before 11:30 PM to a report of multiple shots fired. The shooting followed a reported assault call at the venue involving two groups. Callers reported around nine shots fired. Continue reading

CHS Classic | There is a stairway to nowhere at Broadway and Harvard

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There’s a triangle where Broadway and Harvard meet just north of Madison that has been fenced for years. The last time we wrote about it in 2010, the lot was fenced and full of weeds. Fourteen years later, the lot is still fenced and still full of weeds.

Behind the fence is a concrete stairway with a railing — but whatever building it led to is no longer there. It’s a stairway to nowhere.

How could a patch of land along a street like Broadway remain so unused?

We know what happened tot he building.

This was the old Scottish Rite Cathedral, which opened in 1911 and remained in use by the Scottish Rite until the late 1950s. The building was actually built in the old Spring right-of-way which was vacated by the city in March of 1891, long before the Masonic Temple Association bought the land in August of 1910.

Flash forward 114 years and find a fenced empty lot full of surprisingly hearty weeds and an ambitious clutch of trees. The Polyclinic, the owner of this strange patch of Capitol Hill, has been ambitious with the rest of its properties. But this lot is a conundrum. Continue reading

Taking a big leap and leaving Capitol Hill, Teriyaki & Wok announces final day of business on Broadway

(Image: Teriyaki & Wok)

(Image: Teriyaki & Wok)

Teriyaki & Wok, an “unassuming” staple of Broadway food and drink for more than 14 years, announced that Thursday will be its final day of business. Its owners are selling and making way for a new restaurant to fill the space Teriyaki & Wok made into its home out of an old Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop:

After 14 memorable years of serving the Capitol Hill community, Teriyaki & Wok, located at 324 Broadway East at the southeast corner of Broadway E and Harrison, is announcing its final day of operation and the sale of the business on this significant Leap Year day.

Our chef Jung and the “Chief Engagement Officer” Jamie along with our long term, exceptional dedicated crew behind the scene have fostered a family-like atmosphere within the Capitol Hill community. “For the past 14 years, it has been my family’s pleasure to serve our Capitol Hill guests, so many of you have become like family and friends,” says Jamie.

Taken over in 2010 by Jeom and Jung Jae Hur along with Jeom’s sister Jamie Yeo, Teriyaki & Wok was a no frills addition to Seattle’s teriyaki addition that thrived in the right place at the right time. Continue reading

Have you heard the one about when Fox News tried to cancel Capitol Hill Comedy/Bar?

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The free market has spoken. You may have heard from Fox News that Capitol Hill Comedy/Bar “canceled” a few professional comics. Luckily, anybody interested can still catch the acts… in Tacoma. It’s the American way.

“We stood up for the values of the neighborhood and we stood up for our neighbors,” Dane Hesseldahl tells CHS about the decision by Comedy/Bar to cancel a handful of scheduled 2024 acts.

The decision to drop the comics from the club’s calendar came as the Broadway venue had second thoughts about the scheduled comics and material that leans heavily on material crafted to provoke and skewer all things woke and progressive.

The decision to make getting “canceled” public by posting the email from Comedy/Bar’ about the decision was the comics’. Continue reading

This Capitol Hill burger bar won’t stay empty long — 206 Burger Company is moving in

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(Image: 206 Burger)

By Juan Jocom

Capitol Hill restaurant spaces left empty by recent closures of neighborhood favorites won’t stay quiet long. For some, they will barely skip a beat. The latest example? There is a new burger joint ready to belly up to the burger bar left empty by the departure of 8 Oz. from the northwest corner of Broadway and Union.

First Hill-born 206 Burger is moving in marking its fourth burger joint in Seattle.

Suren Shrestha’s dream of expanding his Seattle burger empire is continuing with the opening on Capitol Hill. As an immigrant from Nepal, Shrestha’s journey from being a dishwasher to a business owner is quite a climb.

“It feels great, It’s my American dream. I came to this country with nothing.I came as a student with $1,300 in my pocket. I’m just proud of myself, you know,” said Shrestha. Continue reading

COMEBUYTEA’s craft take on boba steams up the Capitol Hill tea scene

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(Image: COMEBUYTEA)

Like the Starbucks Roastery a few blocks away continues to draw crowds of visitors dotted by the occasional Capitol Hill local, it seems like the new COMEBUYTEA at the corner of Pike and Broadway might be busy forever.

The first Seattle location of the Taiwanese chain debuted earlier this month with lines around the block waiting for COMEBUYTEA’s take on tea focused around craft and its steam-billowing “TEAPRESSO Machine” that completes “the 5-step Kungfu brewing method” in “a 60 second comprehensive brew” that produces “a perfectly balanced tea every time.” Continue reading

Broadway’s Boca food and drink family won’t reopen after founder’s death

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Andrea Casas-Beaux and Marco Casas-Beaux

The Capitol Hill-centered Boca family of restaurants including its Broadway steakhouse and its sibling Argentine bakery will pass with its founder.

CHS reported here on the death of founder Marco Casas-Beaux leaving Broadway’s Boca Restobar and Grill, the Boca Pizzeria and Bakery shuttered with plywood and in food and drink limbo.

According to legal documents posted on the Broadway building by lawyers for a Boca landlord, the restaurant owes more than $65,000 in unpaid rent as it has been forced to cease operations. Additional court records show thousands more in unpaid taxes to the state. Continue reading

Capitol Hill is getting a Wingstop near its light rail stop

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With the neighborhood’s fast casual dining scene already overrun with chickens, Capitol Hill is getting its first Wingstop.

By our tally, it will be at least the fifth Wingstop in Seattle.

Paperwork filed with the city shows plans for the new shop being prepared for a street level space in the Modera Broadway development, the six-story mixed-use building rising to the south of the apartments and businesses above Capitol Hill Station.

It has been a slow climb for the commercial spaces in the project. CHS reported here on the 2019 demolition of the landmarks protection-rejected Bonney Watson funeral home that made way for the new development. Its commercial elements have slowly filled in after the building’s pandemic-era opening. A [solidcore] pilates studio also calls the mixed-use building home. Continue reading