BEER-CENTRIC SEATTLE RESTAURANT OPENS SECOND LOCATION IN FREMONT
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he Masonry in Seattle, WA earned a reputation for mouth-watering wood-fired pizza and an impressive taplist soon after they opened their
original 39 seat restaurant in Seattle’s Lower Queen Anne neighborhood in 2013. The owners had always envisioned a larger second location to complement the
THE MASONRY
original location and soon started their search for another restaurant with more space for bottle and keg storage and culinary experimentation.
WRITTEN BY AMY GOLDEN INTERIOR PHOTOGRAPHY BY ALEX CROOK EXTERIOR PHOTOGRAPHY BY BUILT WORK PHOTOGRAPHY
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The owners brought on Seattle design/build
firm,
Collaborative
Companies, to help with the search and build out of the new restaurant. Collaborative designed the furniture for The Masonry’s original location and had a strong sense of the desired look and feel for the new space. After seriously considering a few spaces in Pioneer Square and Downtown, Hess & Callahan Partners approached The Masonry about a new building in the heart of Fremont—a hip neighborhood just north of Queen Anne buzzing with restaurants, bars and big companies including Google, Brooks and Tableau. As fellow beer fanatics, Hess & Callahan Partners were attracted to The Masonry’s casual atmosphere and exotic beer selection. The new restaurant is located in a brand new 4,300 square-foot space that features 150 seats (plus another 60 outside), twenty-four draft lines and two temperature controlled bottle coolers—nearly 4x the amount of space as the original location with more than enough places to store flavorful beers from all over the world. The major elements of the space including
the
wood-fired
pizza
oven, kitchen and bar with custom keg storage, were laid out before building completion and acted as the building blocks for the restaurant’s layout. The L-shaped restaurant is sectioned into spaces to serve the pizza bar, communal table space, beer bar, pub games and private ArchitectBlueprint.com™ | 3
event space. The centrally located
to add warmth and materiality to
Maintaining the neutral palette of
kitchen was strategically placed so it
the space, while also driving visual
concrete and white left an opportunity
can easily service both the pizza and
interest down into the restaurant and
to integrate pops of color into
beer bars, while the communal tables
away from the exposed mechanical
the space, which was one of The
were placed in the front of the floor-
systems common in modern industrial
Masonry’s wishes. The soffit was
to-ceiling windows to engage with the
office buildings. The Birch soffit starts
hand painted by a San Francisco
street and create an indoor/outdoor
on the ground at the entrance of the
artist known for abstract murals.
dining experience in the warmer
restaurant, goes up the wall to the
months.
ceiling and then weaves through the
integrate an existing element from
With a core palette of concrete
space like one large brush stroke
the original restaurant — the bottle
and glass, the Collaborative team
connecting all the different stations
pendant lights — which help to
decided to introduce a wood soffit
within the space.
visually connect the two locations.
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The
Masonry
also
wanted
to
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Collaborative also selected a collection of Random Lights by Moooi to complement the pendant lights and establish a stronger street presence. The communal tables, wood storage, keg storage, and record player cabinet were all designed in-house by the Collaborative team. The owner’s and employees record collection features a variety of music from motown to hiphop to create a casual- cool atmosphere.
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The new Masonry location opened in December 2017 and has quickly become a neighborhood destination for pizza and beer lovers alike.
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