Kelley and Mitch Cook have owned and operated the Dakota Cafe on Pearl Street for the past 17 years.
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It has been a roller coaster year for restaurant business By RODNEY HARWOOD staff writer The Dakota Café is like a harbor light on the shore, guiding ships to a safe harbor. It just seems to belong on Pearl Street in the middle of the historic downtown with the John 24
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Clymer Museum/Gallery across the street and the iconic Davidson Building down the block. The for sale sign in the front window is a bit ominous, but Mitch and Kelley Cook had plans to move on to the next chapter long before the pandemic. As they sat in the dining room of the
business they’ve developed over the past 17 years, highlighted by the Western photos taken by Ellensburg and PRCA photographer Molly Morrow, they could only reflect and wonder what’s next? To say the last 12 months have been a rollercoaster ride didn’t even begin
to describe the emotional upheaval of sweeping change across America. Mitch and Kelley have been working together 25 years, having run a catering business in Seattle, a bakery here in town and eventually as owners and operators of the Dakota Café on Pearl Street, so they know the ups and downs
