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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Happiest Hour: The Coterie Room

Posted by on Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 4:49 PM

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  • Kelly O
Brought to us by superstar chef team Brian McCracken and Dana Tough of Spur Gastropub and Tavern Law, the Coterie Room is an outpost of suaveness in Belltown. The space is airy, window-lined, and decked with expected symbols of elegance: a crystal chandelier, damask patterns, burning candles, swirling relief-panel ceilings, whitewashed surfaces, general spotlessness, and grown-ups of the serious and well-heeled variety.

What else: One wall has plants growing fluffily out from it, giving the room a weighted and prehistoric grandeur. Stacked together, the leaves resemble a breathing green passageway that's too dense to peer through, probably a porthole to some distant world—maybe one that's shimmering and dreamy, with mermen and rose-colored skies. (Though it might as easily lead to an unfriendly terrain, all barren and inescapable, so I just couldn't bring myself to walk through it.)

Happy hours: Daily 5–6:30 pm and 10 pm–close.

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