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T-Doug’s Cantina Leña Might Reopen February 1

Same location, new kitchen equipment.

Allecia Vermillion
Author: Allecia Vermillion
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Cantina Leña in its short pre-shuttering interlude.

What a clusterfrick. Just a few weeks after opening a cantina at Fifth and Lenora, Tom Douglas and his team shut the whole thing down right before Christmas. Cantina Leña is a casual, cafeteria-style place, but the kitchen runs entirely on burning wood; its fancy exhaust system wasn’t adequately processing the smoke. The restaurant is on the ground floor of the Martin apartment building, so residents were less than thrilled with this malfunction.

The Douglas team considered moving Cantina Leña elsewhere, but over the weekend Douglas confirmed that “the plan is to stay where we are.” The fire-burning pit that runs most of the kitchen will be replaced with a different piece of equipment, one that cooperates with the specially installed exhaust scrubber and hopefully lets tenants above breathe easier.

Leña is tentatively set to reopen February 1, but obviously that’s subject to change.

 

 




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Allecia Vermillion
Allecia Vermillion
Allecia Vermillion has spent a decade at Seattle Met, arriving as food and drink editor, and expanding her role over the years. She served as the magazine’s editor in chief until moving into a newly created executive editor role in 2021. She spearheads Seattle Met’s food and drink coverage and oversees home design content. Allecia’s writing has earned her multiple journalism awards and two James Beard Award nominations over the years. A native of Portland, Oregon, Allecia began her writing life as a newspaper reporter in the Chicago suburbs before making a grateful return to the Pacific Northwest. She has an English degree from Washington University (no, the one in St. Louis) and a masters in journalism from Northwestern University. She lives in Seattle with her husband and two children.