Celebrity chef and mixologist Kathy Casey is transforming her location on Ballard Ave.
Casey’s Dish D’Lish location at 5130 Ballard Ave NW closed last Friday so it can be converted into a production studio. According to a press release, the space will be “a dedicated photography and video production studio to meet demands for this growing segment of Kathy Casey Food Studios-Liquid Kitchen business. The forthcoming studio will be unique in that it will feature a full kitchen and bar and be available on a daily rental basis for other photographers and videographers.”
Casey just wrapped up shooting her new cocktail show, “Kathy Casey’s Liquid Kitchen,” which will premiere on Small Screen Network.
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As owner of the building, she’s free to do whatever she wants with it, but it would be so nice if pedestrians on Ballard Ave could interact more directly with that lovely exterior. Why have a closed off, inward looking studio on a popular pedestrian corridor? Don’t get it.
So its a bar and a kitchen that you rent out to take pictures in??? This sounds like the worst idea for a business ever.
“Casey’s Dish D’Lish location at 5130 Ballard Ave NW closed last Friday”
I would have been happy if the story ended right there.
There’s no reason why all types of service businesses and economic activities shouldn’t be a part of dense, urban, aesthetically pleasing pedestrian areas. Seattle’s enduring problem is that is has SO FEW such areas that we feel they must be dominated by only 1 or 2 types of consumer experiences.
In a real city, no one would think twice about a business like that being on a street like this.
As for “Dish D’Lish” itself, I’ve always been conflicted. It seemed like kind of a silly selection of mostly pre-prepared foods when so much freshly made food could be found nearby, so I almost never went there.
But the one at SeaTac Airport has saved my ass about a hundred times.
So, what is your criteria of a “real city”? Seattle seems as real as any other I’ve visted, so your comment has me confused.
haha, she is definately not a “celebrity” and i wonder how much “chef” she has in her anymore…
Hmm, I always wondered why it wasn’t open on Sundays when there are TONS of people down there. Bummer. Had my wedding reception in the studio and it was fabulous. Too bad she’s really closed everything off. A people person….perhaps not.
If you’ve got a show to shoot, it’s great. I guess you don’t have a TV show to shoot?
I heard from numerous people about her previous (and thankfully unsuccessful) efforts to force Conor Byrne out of HER building. I wish she’d just leave the neighborhood altogether. I never patronized her precious deli on principle and refuse to buy anything from the one in the airport either. From what I’ve heard, she is not a good neighbor.
She sold the building Conor Byrne is in.
SPG, STFU.
Thx
Oh, come on… Please take that as a legitimate criticism of Seattle’s development history, but please don’t take personal offense to it.
You know as well as I do that Seattle has less than a dozen great pedestrian spaces in the whole city, only three of which (Ballard Ave, Pioneer Square, Georgetown) have any history to them.
If we had entire quadrants of city-feeling CITY the way that Chicago or San Francisco or even cental Portland do, no one would be criticizing any one storefront’s usage choice.
One can’t improve one’s city if one refuses to acknowledge the drawbacks of choices made in that city’s past and present.