Its swanky, airy space boasts an adjacent outdoor deck guests can drink up Prohibition-style cocktails from the aforementioned Temperance while drinking in the sweeping skyline and water views.
Smith Tower in Pioneer Square recently reemerged from an extensive renovation with not only a new look and feel-the former 35th-floor Chinese Room space is now home to the sleekly cool Temperance café and bar-but additional event space as well, thanks to the new 22nd-floor Lookout lounge. Available for private parties like bridal showers, The Letter Farmer offers all the supplies-think letterpress cards, sweet papers and even vintage postage-for folks to shop and then scribble down a meaningful message (prices for supplies range from $5 to $25 each rental fee may apply). Longtime wedding invitation purveyor Rachel Brandzel Weil has taken her show on the road with The Letter Farmer, a cheery, stationery-stocked van she spirits about town in hopes of preserving the art of the handwritten letter. Originally founded in late 2014 by Lizzy Ellingson and Nevin Shetty, Blueprint has upped the ante ever since, adding a group gifting feature for larger ticket items, honeymoon and cash gifts (in addition to the thousands already available through online retailers such as Amazon, Crate & Barrel and Anthropologie) and most recently, a room-by-room shopping feature so that guests can envision just where that new piece would live in your home.
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Open to the public with no entry fee, it's stocked with gifts from local artisans, grocery staples like milk and eggs, a grab-and-go deli, and a soda fountain with floats and Full Tilt ice cream.Banish the “But where would we put it?” question with Seattle-based online startup Blueprint Registry, which cleverly allows couples to customize their wedding registry based on the layout, and needs, of their home. Another tour option, called "The Bootleg King," will launch this winter.įinally, there's also a new general store, Smith Tower Provisions, located on the ground floor of the tower. No snacks or drinks are included in either ticket price. The tour runs $19.14 for adults (a nod to the year the tower was completed), $14 for children ages 5 to 12, and $17 for seniors over 65 and military with ID.
To get to the observation deck and bar, you have two options: Pay for 40-minute, self-guided Legends of Smith Tower tour, which takes you through several interactive exhibits, or simply pay for a "Straight Up" ticket for an elevator ride to the 35th floor. Smith Tower Provisions on the ground floor. Light bites inspired by the Roaring Twenties, Prohibition, and the tower's Asian influence include banh mi sandwiches, Chinese dumplings, a raw oyster bar, and craft cocktails. The biggest difference on the 35th floor is that you can now drink and eat while you admire a 360-degree view of the city.
The rebranding has retained the fetching details of the room, including its ornate ceiling tiles, carved wood Wishing Chair, and that stunning wrap-around, open-air viewing platform. Starting tomorrow, visitors can partake in an interactive, self-guided tour called "The Legends of Smith Tower," drink at a new, Depression-era-styled "speakeasy" in the observation deck, and shop at a ground floor mercantile.įormerly known as the Chinese Room, the 35th floor observation deck has been renamed "the Smith Tower Observatory," and within it is the Smith Tower Temperance cafe and bar. It was recently purchased by Unico Properties, a Seattle-based real estate investment and operating company, and has undergone a bit of a refresh and rebranding. It hasn't all been smooth sailing for the historic Smith Tower, which struggled with high vacancy rates after the burst of the dot-com bubble in the early aughts and went up for sale in a foreclosure auction in 2012.īut Seattle's first skyscraper, once the tallest building west of the Mississippi, seems to be on the rebound. Spy On the Puget Sound at Rooftop Bar The Nest
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