Updates: New restaurant name; Admiral Safeway permit filings

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NEW RESTAURANT’S NAME: When we reported last week on the plan for what’s going into the former Ama Ama space at California/Edmunds, the proprietors weren’t sure about a name. Looks like they’ve found one: The liquor-license permit application lists the name as Table 35 Restaurant and Lounge. Now, to the Admiral District:

SAFEWAY PERMIT FILINGS: From today’s city Land Use Information Bulletin: The only two West Seattle items are both related to the Admiral Safeway project, and both include a formal chance for you to comment. First, the application for the land-use permit for the commercial building along California north of the store (rendering above), which Safeway wants to build first so its pharmacy can stay in operation while the store is closed for construction; links are here (including how to comment). Second, permit applications for the store/apartments/flex-work project itself, including a rezoning request that will require City Council approval (links are here). As we reported last weekend, the next Southwest Design Review Board meeting for the Admiral Safeway project is tentatively scheduled for 8 pm December 17th, Youngstown Arts Center.

MargL November 19, 2009 (10:00 am)

Yay! A lounge! Maybe they’ll have karaoke! ;-)

MargL November 19, 2009 (10:19 am)

Another interesting tidbit – it’s the same company that runs (owns?) Bamboo Bar and Grill on Alki
for the curious –
Go here https://fortress.wa.gov/dol/dolprod/bpdLicenseQuery/
and search for “Yow LLC”

HAPPY Nulu November 19, 2009 (10:26 am)

I Miss Guppies!

Andrew November 19, 2009 (11:13 am)

Hope the remodeled Safeway isn’t anything like the one at Jefferson Square- I can’t stand that store.

villagegreen November 19, 2009 (11:33 am)

Oh nooo! Bamboo Bar and Grill?! That place is awful. Hope they’re planning on upping their game with this new place. Maybe they’ve got it right in that you’ve gotta have an active bar/lounge scene in order to make the space work. It’s just too huge for a single somewhat expensive restaurant in West Seattle – transport it to Belltown and it’d be fine. Same thing goes for the Thai place next door. Good food, but the space is just too large.

Anyway, good luck to them! That space is definitely cursed. Guppies seemed more like what the space is meant for.

Buddsmom November 19, 2009 (11:52 am)

GUPPIES! GUPPIES! GUPPIES! Had many good times had there.:)

KBear November 19, 2009 (12:08 pm)

I like Bamboo Bar & Grill. But why “Table 35”? Because they needed an uninspiring name and “Fresh Bistro” was already taken? Or because 34 other restaurants have already failed in that space?

Meghan November 19, 2009 (2:04 pm)

Well gee whiz, KBear, sorry the name doesn’t pass snuff in your expert opinion. I personally think it’s a distinctive name. At least people will remember it and be able to spell it and pronounce it. And Fresh Bistro is a good name. Let’s see, freshness is their passion… and they are a bistro… why not call it Stale Leftovers???