The Newest Seattle Restaurant Trend: Graffiti
Capitol Hill’s Mod Pizza will be the latest to join the tagged team.
Posted by: Christopher Werner on Feb 15, 2011 at 08:48AM
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Mod Pizza, “a fast-paced exciting environment” where the pie arrives super fast and is uniformly priced at $6.28, will soon debut its fourth branch, this one on Capitol Hill. When it opens at 519 Broadway East in the last weeks of March (the oven was recently installed), diners will consume their pizza super fast among splashy-sassy walls.
Says company rep Mary Douglas, “Like all the other Mods, this site will look different and have that ‘edge’ to it.” “Edge” will come courtesy of “an amazing graffiti artist” whose paint job will embellish the interior, she reveals.
The pizzeria follows the lead of Revel in Fremont, where an abstract pastel by Seattle artist Pubs (above) flanks the exterior. At Munchbar in Bellevue, neon boomboxes, stars, and marshmallow scribble, courtesy Jordan Nickel, bedeck the walls in a very Fresh Prince sort of way. Belltown’s Dope Burgers does a ragtag beefwich that kinda resembles a flying saucer. And then there’s the midroom mural at Satay.
Five newcomers in three months, give or take—the Banksy effect is sweeping Seattle.
Spot the spray anywhere else?
Tags: New Seattle Restaurants, Seattle Restaurant Openings, Capitol Hill, Pizza, Restaurant Trends, Mod Pizza
As long as it’s not another “Henry”, I’m ok with it.