1Salvaged barn wood lines the wall, while an equally salvaged chandelier serves as a weathervane.2Salvaged barn wood lines the wall, while an equally salvaged chandelier serves as a weathervane.3The restaurant’s logo, a garlic butterfly, hangs in the front window.4The restaurant’s logo, a garlic butterfly, hangs in the front window.5The restaurant’s name comes from an elementary […]
Salvaged barn wood lines the wall, while an equally salvaged chandelier serves as a weathervane.
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Salvaged barn wood lines the wall, while an equally salvaged chandelier serves as a weathervane.
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The restaurant’s logo, a garlic butterfly, hangs in the front window.
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The restaurant’s logo, a garlic butterfly, hangs in the front window.
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The restaurant’s name comes from an elementary school-aged family friend Pascal, nicknamed Skelly, who heard Paquette wanted to open a restaurant and handed over $10 to be her first investor. His little sister Nina, aka The Bean, gets naming rights too.
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The restaurant’s name comes from an elementary school-aged family friend Pascal, nicknamed Skelly, who heard Paquette wanted to open a restaurant and handed over $10 to be her first investor. His little sister Nina, aka The Bean, gets naming rights too.
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Staff make last-minute arrangements (like tying their plaid neckties) before a pre-opening private event.
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Staff make last-minute arrangements (like tying their plaid neckties) before a pre-opening private event.
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Paquette’s rainbow-hued wall of gratitude thanks some people by name, alongside shout-outs to "Anonymous OCD helper" and "tater-tot tester."
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Paquette’s rainbow-hued wall of gratitude thanks some people by name, alongside shout-outs to "Anonymous OCD helper" and "tater-tot tester."
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A popcorn machine tucked behind the wall of love portends fancy bar snacks to come.
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A popcorn machine tucked behind the wall of love portends fancy bar snacks to come.
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The Easy Joe’s sign is getting removed today. Hanging on the bathroom wall you’ll find pen-and-ink drawings of the restaurant’s former life as bistro Cassis. Skelly GM (and Cassis owner) Jef Fike pulled them off his own walls to hang in the restaurant.
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The Easy Joe’s sign is getting removed today. Hanging on the bathroom wall you’ll find pen-and-ink drawings of the restaurant’s former life as bistro Cassis. Skelly GM (and Cassis owner) Jef Fike pulled them off his own walls to hang in the restaurant.
Capitol Hill’s flurry of new arrivals continues February 23, when Skelly and the Bean opens its doors in the space that most recently housed Easy Joe’s (and before that, the original Tidbit Bistro). Skelly populates a quieter stretch of the neighborhood north of the hopping Pike-Pine and Bro…
