(Image: Pho 4 U)
With reporting by Toni Guy, CHS Summer Intern
Displaced by the economics of a growing Capitol Hill block and with a family lineage connecting it to some of the neighborhood’s earliest pho providers, Pho 4 U has returned to Pine in a new space just across from its previous home.
CHS reported here in early 2024 on the “unfortunate, but amicable” business changes that came to Pho 4 U’s former block as San Francisco-based real estate company Prado Group transformed its Pine facing edge after it acquired the property for $5 million. The changes marked the end for Machiavelli as well as its neighbors Pho 4 U and Lan Hand-Pulled Noodles.
Machiavelli’s exit was part of its focus on a Edmonds location but the smaller joints were left without homes. Cheese Room now holds down the old Machiavelli space and Portland’s Voodoo Doughnuts ate up the space Pho 4 U used to call home.
This summer, Pho 4 U, with ownership connects way back to Pike/Pine’s Pho Le, reopened at the base of Capitol Hill in the Pivot Apartments building after a short-lived sushi joint moved out.
“This spot used to be a sushi restaurant,” Pho 4 U’s Nick Lee said. “It was just set up and moved in, everything was ready for us.”
As for any ill will for the doughnut shop, Lee says it was just business.
“It was very simple,” Lee said. “Our lease at the location had ended and we did not have an extension. It has nothing to do with Voodoo Doughnuts.”
Now, Pho 4 U is back and ready to serve.
You can find Pho 4 U at 1202 Pine. Learn more at facebook.com/pho4useattle.
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