A new name and a new look also means a new supply of food vendors, all with the aim of turning the Center House Armory into a dining destination.
On Friday, August 3, from 4- 8 p.m. the Seattle Center will show off the new culinary hotspot with an Armory Food Preview. The event will include special offers at many of its food vendors and a music performance by the folk-rock band River Giant 4- 5 p.m.
Deborah Daoust, Director of Communications at the Seattle Center, said the event is “to encourage our neighbors and people in Seattle to come down and see the transformed Seattle Center Armory.” “We think people will really be very pleasantly surprised by what’s become of the space and what the space has to offer in the way of really good food,” she said.
Daoust explained that most of the food vendors in the Center House Armory have been replaced. The few that were not had their spaces and menus upgraded. These changes were part of a master plan that the Seattle Center developed about four years ago, which was than approved by the City Council.
The dining transformation took place in conjunction with the rest of the changes to the Seattle Center Armory, which included taking down walls, having bigger windows and doors and a long deck outside with tables. The work was started in 2011 as a way to celebrate the building’s birth as a Seattle Field Artillery Armory in 1940.
The changes made by the Seattle Center to the food vendors were all for the purpose to have the space provide local, fresh and creative food. Representatives toured many restaurants and then worked with the ones they liked the best to see how the space would work for them and how the Center House Armory could accommodate their needs.
One of the new restaurants chosen for the Center House Armory is called Beansprouts. Its mantra or “PHILOSO-PEA,” as it’s called on its website, is to “Spark children’s appetites with good-for-you food; and delight parents with a happier mealtime.”
Another new food vendor is MOD Pizza, which serves individual, thin crust pizzas that are created fresh when a customer orders one.
Seattle Fudge was one of the few places that remains after the remodel. Its special offer at the event will be buy two pieces of fudge and receive a free piece of cotton candy, and will take place from 11am– 8pm that day.
The other food vendors with discounts include: Bigfood, Ceres Roasting, The Confectional, Eltana Wood-Fired Bagels, KABAB, Quincy’s and Skillet.
Daoust said the August 3 even came about, “because we are finally at a point where most of them [food vendors] are open for operation. So we figured with so much going on, that it gives the community a good opportunity to come down, do some fun things and then try out the food vendors.”
The other things going on that day at the Seattle Center include the first night of ‘Concerts at the Mural,’ which will feature KEXP’s favorite independent artists, and the first night of the ‘Fountain of Light,’ which involves videos projected onto the International Fountain’s water. Both of these series of events are free and open to all-ages.
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