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Five years of Ltd Edition and Chef Keiji Tsukasaki, Capitol Hill’s DJ of sushi

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Chef Keiji Tsukasaki is celebrating five years at Ltd Edition, a sushi restaurant on Capitol Hill that has combined his traditional sushi training with his diverse background in nightlife and Japanese culture to earn accolades as one of the “best restaurants in America.”

Tsukasaki describes himself as both a traditional chef and a party organizer. “Especially with ownership here, I feel like a party organizer too,” he tells CHS. This blend of experiences shapes how he approaches sushi and hospitality, making Ltd Edition a unique part of Capitol Hill’s food scene.

Tsukasaki compares working a sushi bar to dropping a beat.

“It has a live feeling, similar to DJing to the audience,” Tsukasaki says. He appreciates the analog nature of sushi craftsmanship in contrast to today’s digital world. After experiencing the COVID-19 lockdown, he decided to open his own restaurant.

“Maybe this is a crazy idea, but I want to share the traditional Japanese style of sushi with a younger audience. ”

Tsukasaki was born and raised in the coastal town of Fukui, Japan, and grew up immersed in Japanese street culture, dance music, fashion, art, and food. He came to the U.S. as a DJ in the 1990s and decided to live abroad permanently after experiencing a culture shock and discovering a broader world. Continue reading →

After a year in Capitol Hill’s tumultuous street food scene, Tacos Cometa will open on Broadway in 2026

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(Image: Tacos Cometa)

(Image: Tacos Cometa)

Tacos Cometa is moving inside. The street taco venture from brother chefs Rey and Osiel Gastelum that has grown a devoted following this year at Nagle and Pine on the edge of Cal Anderson Park as part of the neighborhood’s wild — and delicious — nightlife street food scene will open as a brick and mortar taqueria on Broadway in 2026.

Rey Gastelum tells CHS Tacos Cometa isn’t leaving Capitol Hill’s street scene behind.

“There should be a better path. I wish there had been a better path for us as well,” Gastelum said. Continue reading →

Pike/Pine and Broadway Safety Coalition asks for more from city including help paying for private security to combat drugs and street disorder

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A group of neighborhood business representatives calling themselves the Pike/Pine/Broadway Safety Coalition are calling on the city and the East Precinct to do more to combat street disorder and what they call “open air drug markets” at Broadway and Pike and near Cal Anderson Park.

The group led city officials including Deputy Mayor Tim Burgess and District 3 representative Joy Hollingsworth on a tour of the areas Friday that included plenty of ideas for change — and a flaming reminder of challenges after someone set fire to a portable toilet in Cal Anderson during the tour.

There was another stark reminder over the weekend after a woman was hospitalized in an overnight shooting in the parking lot above the Broadway and Pike QFC just up the stairs from a stop on Friday’s tour.

The coalition group including representatives from QFC-parent company Kroger, the Broadway at Pike Harvard Market shopping center’s ownership, local developers and building owners Hunters Capital and Dunn & Hobbes, and the GSBA, has placed drug dealing fueled by the fentanyl crisis at the center of its calls for help, citing areas outside the Pike QFC, in front of 11th Ave businesses south of Pike, and on Nagle Place next to Cal Anderson as “drug markets” and “a massive health hazard and public safety problem.”

“There are visible weapons and frequent violence. Addicts are in crisis and people don’t know who to call to help,” the group wrote in an “issues and requests” document distributed by the GSBA’s Laura Culberg for Friday’s tour. “Business owners and property owners are cleaning up bloody messes and dangerous drug waste.” Continue reading →

Remembering Capitol Hill and the Central District’s victims in Seattle’s record year of homicides

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A memorial to Nakawa Beasley near 25th and Union

Along E Union in 2023, you could find people coming and going on their way to new restaurants, bars, shops, and an art center that have joined the neighborhood’s new development. You could also find a collection of flowers, keepsakes, and photographs remembering Nakawa Beasley, the 45-year-old gunned down on the street in a September driveby.

Beasley’s killing will be part of what has been an exceptionally deadly year in Seattle with homicides reaching a new high with more than 70 recorded in the city. The rate has jumped from 4.3 murders per 100,000 people five years ago to 9.6 in 2023 as surging gun violence has continued to rise after spiking during the heights of the COVID pandemic.

The areas around Capitol Hill and the Central District have not been especially violent in comparison with the rest of the city. The East Precinct has been responsible for about 17% of the city’s homicides over the past five years. This year, the precinct will account for around 13% of the city’s record total.

But there was a clear center for the East Precinct’s deadly violence in the year. Continue reading →

SPD investigating Cal Anderson stabbing and pepper spray incident — UPDATE

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Seattle Police found two people injured and bleeding after an altercation and stabbing on the west edge of Cal Anderson Park along Nagle Place Wednesday morning.

Police were working to determine the circumstances and were told the victim in the stabbing was able to pepper spray the assailant who reportedly fled to Broadway.

According to emergency radio updates, SPD found one person with a laceration to their face near the Cal Anderson reservoir pump house and another on Broadway suffering from a shot of pepper spray to the face and injuries to his hands. Seattle Fire was called to treat both men just after 8:30 AM.

The area along Nagle and Cal Anderson Park has been an ongoing problem for law enforcement that community groups identified as a “drug market” in need of public safety changes after a double homicide on the street earlier this year.

UPDATE: SPD has posted a brief on the incident:

At 0836 hours while assisting Parks Department in Cal Anderson Park officers heard someone yell from the west side of the park that they had been stabbed. Officers ran over to the male victim, he was bleeding from his face and head, and he pointed up the stairs to Broadway. He said that the suspect ran up the stairs. Officers gave chase and found the suspect in the business at the top of the stairs. The suspect was placed into custody without incident and was treated by SFD for pepper spray from the victim. The victim was treated by SFD on the scene and was transported to HMC for his non-life-threatening injuries.

 
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‘Drug market’ — Deadly shootings bring new urgency to community group’s calls for changes to west side of Cal Anderson Park

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Nagle Place

Nagle Place

It is not known what progress the Seattle Police Department has made identifying suspects or a motive in the shooting deaths of brothers Ray and TT Wilford but the murders have brought new urgency to a Capitol HIll community group’s efforts to address safety and worries about drug dealing on the west side of Cal Anderson Park.

The Cal Anderson Park Alliance was already in the midst of a survey process to collect feedback about Nagle Place, the street that runs along the west edge of the park that has been given over mostly to parking and street disorder despite nearby development rising above it, when the latest shootings happened.

“For years, it’s been obvious that much of the violence in the park is related to the drug market on Nagle and the west edge of the park,” the CAPA group said in a statement to CHS in the wake of the deadly Saturday night that left 33-year-old and 29-year-old brothers dead. Continue reading →

Two killed in Nagle Place shooting identified, police still looking for ‘fourth man’ who reportedly fled scene — UPDATE: TT and Ray

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Family and friends say the two men who were shot and killed Saturday night along the west side of Cal Anderson Park were brothers.

The King County Medical Examiner has identified the men as Raylando Wilford, 33, who died of multiple gunshot wounds, and Terrance Wilford, 29, who died from a gunshot wound to the chest, investigators say. Loved ones called them Ray and TT.

CHS reported here on the deadly Saturday night shooting that left victims strewn across Nagle Place next to the busy skateboard and basketball courts area of the park. A third man remains hospitalized after being taken to Harborview with critical injuries suffered in the shooting.

Seattle Police are still looking for a fourth man. Continue reading →

CHS Pics | Caring for Capitol Hill just wants to clean up Cal Anderson Park

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With reporting by Alex Garland

You might forgive Seattle residents circa 2023 for being a little skeptical. Some community efforts in the city reek of politics and preying on the city’s least fortunate to make the case for crackdowns and arrests.

But Caring for Capitol Hill is no Safe Seattle or any of the other groups in the city that have emerged from the pandemic mixing public safety activism with volunteer efforts.

Sunday, CHS found volunteers with the loosely organized Caring for Capitol Hill group working with neighbors and a few representatives from nearby businesses and buildings to clean up the area around Nagle Place and Cal Anderson Park. Continue reading →

Police: Capitol Hill shooting self defense as late night Cal Anderson basketball player says attacked over ‘significant amount of cash’ — UPDATE

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Police say Sunday morning’s shooting that left one victim injured on Capitol Hill was a reported act of self defense during a street robbery at the Cal Anderson basketball court.

According to the Seattle Police report on the just before 5 AM incident, the shooter told police he fired several rounds “into the ground to scare the robbers away” as he was being mugged in a strong-arm robbery attempt. Continue reading →

Capitol Hill’s new Limited Edition Sushi will have nearly unlimited seating from your place to Cal Anderson Park

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(Image: Limited Edition Sushi)

Portability is part of the deep history of sushi. Saki Tsukasaki’s soon to open Limited Edition Sushi on the edge of Cal Anderson Park will be a celebration of that mobile efficiency with “premium omakase” boxes to go.

After months of watching the Seattle restaurants scene be upended and spun around by the COVID-19 crisis, Tsukasaki hopes Limited Edition will be part of an enduring trend of delivery and takeout demand for meals on Capitol Hill.

The takeout-focused sushi joint will also have pretty amazing “patio” seating options. It is taking over the space formerly home to the Cure charcuterie and cocktail bar on Nagle alongside the western edge of Cal Anderson. For now, Cure lives on inside the Remedium Grill, the Hawaiian and Filipino BBQ restaurant now resident at 15th and Pine.

Tsukasaki says the plan for Limited is to focus on its omakase boxes with plans for private dining options and subscription services down the road. Limited will also have sake options on offer to accompany their boxes. Continue reading →