Elegant, contemporary, fresh, executed with care and confidence…these qualities apply as much to the architecture as to the cooking at Spring Hill, West Seattle’s wonderful new restaurant. The energy of its wide open kitchen stretching the length of the restaurant activates a dining room detailed in rhythmic planes of maple, steel, glass and marble. Manipulating these materials in the service of reflection, repetition, contrast and translucency, the architecture transforms a former shoe-box space into a setting of physical depth and complexity.
Whether ensconced at an intimate table near the kitchen as food comes fresh off the grille, meeting neighbors at the bar, or dining with friends at a table overlooking the street scene stretching up California Avenue – there is not a bad seat in the house.
