After closing Capitol Hill grocery, QFC adding pub to U Village store

Today in false equivalencies, grocery giant Kroger could not keep its 15th Ave E store open but is adding a pub to its University Village QFC.

The company has filed for a liquor license for the new Q20 Public House inside the busy U Village mall grocery.

The pub concept isn’t a first for the parent company to the QFC and Fred Meyer chains.


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Capitol Hill’s Hello Robin baking plans for U Village expansion

Martin (Image: Hello Robin)

The next time you stop by Capitol Hill cookie shop Hello Robin, congratulate the bakers. They have something special in the oven for 2020.

Hello Robin will be expanding beyond its 19th Ave E original home a year from now next spring. The cookie bakery, distinguished by its blue sign and line outside its door, will open a storefront in University Village after operating solely on Capitol Hill since 2013.

“I think we’re ready for the next chapter. It’s been a fun five and a half years. We have a really great staff and growing the business will provide more opportunities for them,” said Robin Martin, the bakery’s namesake. Martin co-owns and co-founded the bakery with her husband, Clay Martin. Continue reading