Wright Eats

We often find ourselves driving outside our neighborhood to dine out.  We’ve got a few good places nearby, but nothing like Capitol Hill, Ballard, or now Queen Anne.  One place we like in our neighborhood is Pair, which is just north of University Village.  We went there a lot when it first opened.  We go less frequently now, since it’s more popular and therefore crowded, and although the food is quite good, we wish they would change up the menu a little more often.  It’s still nice to stop in there once in a while.

The Seattle Times reports good news for us.  Felix and Sarah, owners of Pair, will be opening a second restaurant this summer, just up the street.  We look forward to its opening!

Felix and Sarah Penn, whose darling small-plates restaurant, Pair, celebrates its fourth anniversary in May, have a second Ravenna restaurant in the works. They hope to debut their as-yet-unnamed bistro in June, just a few short blocks from Pair.Neighbors will know the site, at 2614 N.E. 55th St., from its earlier incarnation as those oddly conjoined twins the Sterling Café (an organic restaurant) and the Sterling Salon (a beauty salon), closed since last summer. Industrial designers Jacob and Lucas Mihoulides, who did a stellar job with Queen Anne’s How to Cook a Wolf, are set to work their creative magic, turning the dual storefront into a 40-seat dining room with an adjoining 20-seat lounge.

The new place will have “a clearly different identity than Pair,” says Sarah. And though its menu and physical layout “is evolving as we speak,” we can expect a contemporary take on American classics, highlighting seafood and steaks. The Penns plan to divide their time between the two restaurants.

This entry was posted on Saturday, March 22nd, 2008 at 1:40 pm and is filed under Restaurants.