22-05-2025
Capitol Hill's Mercado Luna Space Is Getting Revived With a Rooftop Bar
It's rooftop season! As we noted last week, the Populus Hotel in Pioneer Square opened today, May 22, with a new rooftop bar called Firn. Capitol Hill has a new rooftop bar too: Called Cantina del Sol, it's a bright, semi-covered space that sits atop the building on Pine and Summit that used to be Mercado Luna. If you went out in Capitol Hill you probably know the building — it had a big 'TACOS FOR THE PEOPLE' sign facing the street and housed a rooftop bar as well as a takeout window, a wine shop, and the long-running restaurant Mezcaleria Oaxaca.
It closed down in 2024 and the space was snapped up by Travis Rosenthal's Pike Street Hospitality Group (PSHG), which owns several bars and restaurants, including the Capitol Hill sandwich shop HoneyHole. A representative for PSHG says that the building will have four 'distinct food and drink spaces,' the first of which is Cantina del Sol.
The new bar has a bright color palette. Tacos are served out of a pink 1960s camp trailer, and the drinks include a pink prickly pear margarita and a bright green lime margarita. (The tacos, by the way, are going to feature the same handmade tortillas as Aqua Verde Cafe, another PSHG restaurant.) It will be open from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. on weekdays (and until midnight Friday night), and from 11 a.m. on weekends, when it will serve a menu of brunchy items including chilaquiles. Cantina del Sol is open now, and the three other concepts that will fill up the building will be announced later.
Now onto more news you should know: Rumba notches Spirited Awards 2025 nom
Speaking of Pike Street Hospitality Group, its rum-focused bar Rumba just got recognized by booze-focused nonprofit Tales of the Cocktail. TotC just came out with its nominees for its Spirted Awards, and Rumba scored one for Worlds Best Spirits Selection; it's one of only two bars on the West Coast to get a nomination. Dick's is arriving in Everett next month
Dick's, the famed old-school drive-in burger chain, is in the process of opening its 10th location, in Everett, and now we have a opening date: June 12. 'The hoopla surrounding every Dick's grand opening has become a cultural phenomenon,' the Seattle Times writes, 'with teens lining up and die-hards sleeping in their cars to be among the first to queue for the beloved local chain's burgers and shakes.' Sheesh, calm down everyone. The new Dick's will be at 1629 Center Road, near Paine Field. Ballard's new H Mart is almost here
Speaking of beloved chains, Asian supermarket H Mart is opening its latest Seattle location in Ballard on June 5, reports the Times . This will occupy the space at 951 Ballard Way that was a grocery store called New Seasons and was going to be an Amazon Go store until that didn't happen. Unlike some other Seattle H Marts, this will be a big (25,000 square feet) store with not just groceries but a deli, beauty section, and an Artbox, which will sell stationary and gifts.
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