Our friends at the Seattle Times are reporting that the space on 34th that was formerly occupied by Cremant has been leased by a new restauranteur:
As I mentioned last week, Donna Moodie came close to signing a lease on the old Cremant space, but decided instead to relocate Marjorie to new digs at 14th and East Union. With that deal off the table, the building’s owner and architect Roy McMakin turned to another Seattle restaurateur who had his eye on the prize. “We got a pretty good deal on it,” chef Vuong Loc told me last week. “We’ve been debating it for, like, six months.”
Loc, the owner of Queen Anne’s petite Portage bistro, doesn’t have firm plans for the new restaurant yet, but says we can expect “something along the same lines as Portage, but with more of a Vietnamese influence.” He hopes to have the place open by May.
His existing Portage bistro gets overall high marks from Yelp reviewers. We’re looking forward to trying out a new spot.
