Ten years and change after opening, lower Pike/Pine French Vietnamese restaurant Stateside is ending its run on Capitol Hill.
The Monday announcement follows last week’s goodbye from neighboring sibling bar Foreign National as it hosted its final customers Thursday night.
Chef and owner Eric Johnson and Stateside partner Seth Hammond didn’t respond to CHS’s inquiries about that abrupt closure.
Eater reports Johnson said only that the lease had run out.
As we reported in the Foreign National obituary, Stateside arrived on Capitol Hill in late 2014 as chef and owner Johnson told CHS he was excited to debut his first food and drink venture amid “the best concentration of restaurants in Seattle.”
Stateside was born in the early 2010s era of Capitol Hill food and drink complexes that stretched out to fill new preservation-friendly development and adaptive reuse overhauls and opened up old auto row structures to new life. A decade later, the complexes like E Union’s Bateau, one of the biggest 2015 ideas in Capitol Hill food and drink, are shifting and restarting.
What will come next for the 2,400-square-foot restaurant and the accompanying 912 square feet formerly home to Foreign National remains to be seen but Johnson and Hammond have moved on. A listing (PDF) for the 300 E Pike lease is now live.
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