EVERETT — Scuttlebutt Brewing Co. will open its new location on the Everett waterfront on Friday in time for lunch.
The popular brew pub is moving from its location on Marine View Drive to the Port of Everett’s new Waterfront Center a few blocks north at 1205 Craftsman Way.
Co-owner Phil Bannan Sr. said the new location will provide a lot more space and a cleaner look.
“What I worry about is that it’s so clean and crisp here that some people may not be comfortable,” Bannan said, noting that Scuttlebutt’s encourages a casual clientele, including people who’ve just come off their boats.
The 5,560-square-foot space will have double the room for customers and a lot more room for the kitchen and bar.
The bar is topped with single slab of four-inch-thick hemlock that Bannan said came from a tree in Lake Stevens. It fronts 12 taps, instead of the former eight, featuring Scuttlebutt beers.
In addition to the restaurant, Scuttlebutt has a separate brewing facility. Bannan said the old restaurant sold about 20 percent of the brewing capacity and the rest was outside sales.
The old location had just tables. The new one has tables and booths and a wide expanse of glass with a view of the waterfront.
Bannan said the new place will have “the same food and the same prices.” But he’s adding some additional food for dinner — prime rib, salmon and halibut.
“It was pretty much a lunch menu that we sold all day,” he said of the former location. “So we’re adding a dinner menu.”
Bannan said the old restaurant had a staff of about 11. That has pretty much doubled for the new location, he added.
The restaurant moved because it knew that the port wants to eventually demolish the former location for a planned redevelopment. He said the new one has a 30-year lease.
“The port made it attractive for us to lease it and to get established,” Bannan said. “Then the rent goes up to where they need it to be.”
The restaurant opens at 11 a.m. and will close at 10 during the week and likely stay open until 11 on Friday and Saturday. The old pub closed at 9.
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