The parents at Aamrai (Picture: Aamrai)
A Capitol Hill food and drinks venue the place a December 2024 closure marked what many feared could be the beginning of a wave of Capitol Hill shutdowns is again in movement this summer time.
Aamrai Indian Kitchen & Bar is now open on Bellevue Ave.
“Aamrai gives a heat and alluring ambiance, with smooth lighting, cozy seating, and mild background music, making it the proper place to rejoice these particular moments along with your family members,” the opening announcement reads. “Take your visitors on a decadent culinary journey as you feast on our genuine menu, thoughtfully created by our workforce.”
CHS reported right here on the late 2024 closure of The Jilted Siren as the hardly one-year-old lounge’s possession blamed “quick sighted, negligent selections” at Seattle Metropolis Corridor for contributing to its closure. Small enterprise advocates feared The Jilted Siren’s finish is perhaps the beginning of shutdowns of Seattle’s eating places, bars, and small companies most impacted by the 2025 expiration of town’s tip credit score. Six months later, the closure wave by no means actually materialized — however there are indicators of change within the neighborhood’s food and drinks economic system.
(Picture: Aamrai)
An instance like Aamrai may be discovered on twelfth Ave the place Indian restaurant and bar Mint & Martini expanded to Capitol Hill… from St. Louis. The house owners of the brand new addition to twelfth Ave constructed their food and drinks expertise in Missouri and located a primary funding alternative on Capitol Hill when the large 4,000-square-foot area house to Barrio turned obtainable after the Mexican restaurant from the Heavy Restaurant Group shuttered to finish 16 years of service on Capitol Hill.
Now open on Bellevue Ave within the former Jilted Siren and onetime Kedai Makan area, Aamrai represents an analogous funding as first-time Seattle proprietor Rupesh Naik hopes to develop into a gradual contributor to the decrease Capitol Hill food and drinks scene simply off E Olive Approach.
The opening is the second new addition to the block this 12 months. Tiny Laurel, the coffee and cocktail bar from Kate Opatz, opened across the nook within the former Crumble and Flake bakery earlier this 12 months.
In the meantime, a brand new closure has added a brand new gap alongside E Olive Approach. Extra on that quickly.
Different latest Capitol Hill openings are also ripe with developments and alter. The newest is the debut of smash burger walk-up window Double O’ Burgers at Summit and Pine the place the Pike Avenue Hospitality Group behind the food and drinks household together with Rumba and HoneyHole are exhibiting one other option to survive and thrive within the Capitol Hill food and drinks economic system. One other large change from the Sea Creature restaurant group because it refines and optimizes E Union’s Bateau may even be a lesson.
However you don’t have to fret about all of that. At Aamrai, deal with the butter hen, kadai baingan, and paneer tikka masala and revel in a pineapple bitter spritz or the Aamrai mai tai. Benefit from the area with echoes — tile, lights, finishings — of the eating places and bars that crammed it earlier than. And be comfortable this a part of the block is, once more, open for enterprise.
Aamrai is now open at 1802 Bellevue Ave. Study extra at aamraiseattle.com.
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