First Look: Ethan Stowell’s New Ballard Restaurant
The restaurant’s name comes from this lettering, written on the wall on the second floor of the building, to be used as offices for a PR company.
Stowell’s new restaurant will occupy the front section behind the construction trailer in this photo. Erickson’s oyster bar is directly behind it. A Danish bike shop is going into the north side of the building, behind the van.
Ethan Stowell points to the section of the restaurant where the bar, which is being built offsite, will go.
A row of banquettes bifurcates the restaurant and runs parallel to the bar. Staple and Fancy seats 40 guests.
A glass wall will separate the pristine and Frenchified Walrus and the Carpenter (left) from the rough-hewn Staple and Fancy (right).
View from the rear of the Walrus and the Carpenter. The oyster bar extends into a 300 square-foot patio in the back.
The side of the bar and yet-to-be-installed lights at the Walrus and the Carpenter. In the back of the photo is a banquette lining the length of the oyster bar.
Subway tile at Walrus and the Carpenter
A wine bar and cellar, available for private wine storage, is hidden in a corner of the basement. The building owners are planning a private dining room for special events and dinners. Stowell will cater.
