The Restaurants That Said Goodbye To Seattle In April 2025

Duke’s on Alki closed at the beginning of April. | Duke’s Seafood

Eden Hill, Duke’s Seafood on Alki, and other big names have closed or announced closures this month

This is a curated list of Seattle’s most notable and permanent restaurant and bar closures. See a closing we missed? Then drop us a line.

QUEEN ANNE — Eden Hill, the inventive little restaurant helmed by Maximillian Petty, is closing on September 4, its 10-year anniversary. “The food that made us popular — intricate and creative dishes with an ungodly amount of steps and Max’s pure creativity — was unsustainable,” Eden Hill wrote in a statement. “The rapid changing restaurant economics was once a fun puzzle and now simmers resentment that bleeds into our hospitality. It’s hard to feel generous when we’re feeling so strapped.” Petty told Eater Seattle that he and his wife and co-owner Jennifer will be focusing on their other business, Big Max Burger Co.

CHINATOWN — Longstanding CID staple Shanghai Garden will close at the end of May, reports the Seattle Times. Co-owner Christine Su told the paper that the reasons for the closure are multifaceted: the retirement of a longtime chef, rising food and labor costs, and worries among potential customers (not based in reality) that the area was unsafe. Su’s parents opened the restaurant in 1990.

BALLARD — Another longtime neighborhood favorite is closing, but maybe only temporarily. Thai Siam, one of the city’s oldest Thai restaurants, is closing at the end of April, but there may be a path to reopening, the Times reports, as owner Vhanthip “Nancy” Bhokayasupatt hopes to buy the building that has been Thai Siam’s home for 38 years.

GREENWOOD — Coindexters, the pinball parlor, arcade, and bar on Greenwood Avenue, is closing its doors after May 3, the owners announced on Instagram. They had been looking for buyers, but were unable to secure a sale. “Unfortunately, our high rent which ultimately led us to the decision of moving on was also a deal breaker for any potential buyers,” they wrote.

WEST SEATTLE — Longtime waterfront dining destination Duke’s Seafood on Alki is no longer there. The restaurant has been sold to a Korean barbecue spot called Do Si, which will open this summer. Duke’s says that the West Seattle location never got back on its feet after the double whammy of the pandemic lockdowns and the West Seattle Bridge closure; the chain still has several locations all over the Seattle area.

CAPITOL HILL — The only U.S. outpost of Mexican chocolate maker Rey Amargo has closed after four years. Rey Amargo opened a cafe with a focus on chocolate-based drinks in 2021, but announced the closure on Instagram earlier this month, thanking the Capitol Hill community but declining to get specific about the reason for closing.

QUEEN ANNE — The Galer location of popular doughnut chain Top Pot has closed, the Times reports, because the lease had expired. There are more than a dozen Top Pots still open across the Seattle–Tacoma area, but this one was notable because it had been open for 17 years.

CAPITOL HILL — Ubuntu Meat Bar and Safari Spice Grill, a small operation inside a Capitol Hill ghost kitchen, is moving to a brick-and-mortar location in Everett after May 3, reports the Puget Sound Business Journal. Owners Lee and Patrick Pharaoh told the paper that they were moving partly to acquire a place for customers to sit down, and also because of safety concerns — orders had been stolen, and patrons from nearby nightclubs have caused problems. Ubuntu is one of the few places in Seattle serving South African food.

BALLARD — After less than two years, bar and restaurant the Greater Good has closed, reports MyBallard. Owner Rachel Wilcox cited “rising costs of basically everything and the continual obstacles that come with juggling small businesses in Seattle” as reasons for the closure; she’ll be focusing on her other bar, Pioneer Square’s Underbelly.

GREENWOOD — After more than 15 years in business, the owners of Turkish-Italian-Greek restaurant Olive and Grape are retiring, according to Vanishing Seattle. Regulars will miss the Turkish breakfasts and their flatbreads; Vanishing Seattle says that Macklemore ate there in 2013 and had the gnocchi pesto.