RN74 in Seattle Has Closed Completely

After almost a decade in the city center, Michael Mina’s wine and gourmet restaurant RN74 has officially closed for good. The restaurant has been closed since the pandemic first hit the region in 2020 and will not make a comeback, a restaurant representative confirmed to Eater Seattle. But the Michelin-starred chef’s restaurant group recently announced that they would be opening a location for Mina’s acclaimed bourbon steak in the same location this fall.

RN74 had a good run and opened with a lot of fanfare on its Seattle debut in 2011, with millions of dollars and a lot of hype behind it. Back then, food critic Hanna Raskin wrote that the high-end spot with French influence was one of the best in town for “meals that matter” and praised its impeccable service. Targeted at theater-goers and other folks wanting a fancy dinner, the restaurant quickly made adjustments when it found that downtown residents loved good happy hour too. Not long after it opened, management reconfigured the restaurant’s layout to meet demand, added more lounge seating, and merged various stations in the kitchen to keep up.

Over the years, RN74 has been joined by many other restaurants and bars hoping to take advantage of the growing tech crowd. But when the pandemic hit the region in March 2020 and companies like Amazon rolled out guidelines for working from home, business plunged dramatically.

That uncertainty hasn’t entirely gone – a major food hall project, China Live, abandoned plans to open near the Amazon campus in 2022, the high-end restaurant in the United States

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