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Monday, May 18, 2009

Chow Space for Lease: Cremant

Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Mon, May 18, 2009 at 4:52 PM

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The saga continues: Mike McConnell (Via Tribunali/Caffe Vita owner) has given up the lease on the Madrona restaurant space. Now building owners Roy McMakin (the architect, who designed the beautiful, witty space) and his spouse Mike Jacobs are looking for a new tenant. And while it's scary out there, plenty of people are still opening restaurants (sushi in Ballard, anyone?).

Photo: domesticarchitecture.com; more Cremant photos here.

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Dear Messrs. McMakin and Jacobs, please rent your lovely restaurant space to a pub, burger joint, McMennamins, or other cheapish place, so that those of us who couldn't afford Cremant, Coupage, St. Cloud's, Dulces, or to the north, Rover's, Voila, Harvest Vine, Crush . . . can afford a place to eat that is within walking distance of our not-half-million-dollar homes. Thanks.

Posted by Luckier on May 18, 2009 at 5:08 PM

@1, there is Madrona Ale House, which pretty much epitomizes the "cheapish" place you seek. Not sure another wouldn't meet the same fate as Cremant.

Posted by dacoach on May 18, 2009 at 5:43 PM

Fantastic. How about a new Slog series: "foie gras restaurant death watch"?

Or maybe, a "foie gras restaurant locked in a paralyzing cage while a hard plastic tube cuts into your throat to force feed you until you swell to ridiculous proportions and you die from infection and then your body is harvested for its fatty liver to be shipped across the country for amoral social conservatives to devour watch"?

Posted by lizzie on May 18, 2009 at 7:06 PM