Although foot traffic downtown is nearing pre-pandemic levels, 15 Seattle-area restaurants have closed.

Seattle-area restaurants shutter their doors, while 46 open

Capitol Hill

Starting in Capitol Hill, Mamnoon closed after 13 years, according to The Seattle Times . The Levantine restaurant shuttered its doors, but the Mamnoon Street restaurant in Belltown remains open.

Nearby, Stateside and its sister bar, Foreign National, shut down after 11 years. Stateside, a Vietnamese-French food eatery, was owned by James Beard-nominated chef Eric Johnson.

The closure comes as a surprise to Seattle locals, according to Eater Seattle . With no warning, fans had no chance for a final visit.

Foreign National, Johnson’s neighboring bar, also closed after nearly a decade. Johnson told

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