After seven years, Denise Tempest has retired from bartending. The owner of the popular cocktail destination in Tacoma's Hilltop neighborhood served her last customers Tuesday. Tempest Lounge opened in November 2005.
After seven years, Denise Tempest has retired from bartending. The owner of the popular cocktail destination in Tacoma's Hilltop neighborhood served her last customers Tuesday. Tempest Lounge opened in November 2005.
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The Hilltop is getting a second craft cocktail lounge from the owner of 1022 South. Chris Keil plans a mid to late-spring opening for Hilltop Kitchen, a 49-seat cocktail lounge and eatery in the space where Tempest Lounge operated from 2005 until last September. He’ll open Hilltop Kitchen with Matt Schweitzer, a managing partner at Cal’s Classic American.
The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department has taken the area’s third hookah lounge to court, alleging it is violating the state’s anti-smoking law.
South Sound flamenco is gaining rhythm, with semi-regular gigs everywhere from Tacoma’s New Frontier Lounge to Olympia’s La Gitana pizzeria. If you’re a fan of the flurried footsteps and fluttering fan, you’ll have a chance this weekend to learn a little flamenco for free at the Gig Harbor Library.
What kind of diner you are will determine whether you’ll embrace the newly opened Whitehouse Restaurant and Lounge in Bonney Lake.
About 700 people, including fathers of all ages, enjoyed an afternoon of rousing and uplifting band music, beginning with hand-over-heart versions of national anthems “O Canada” and “The Star-Spangled Banner,” and ending with service songs for branches of the military in the U.S. and Canada.
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