05/26/2026
“C***r & Cedar feels like an AI chatbot’s digital daydream of what a c***ry should look like. Except it’s real, and it was designed by human brains and built by human hands out of solid wood and not, like medium density fiberboard.”
Sterling and I were caught off-guard when friends texted us a photo of an article they had just read about the bar in the - and promptly looked it up ourselves.
Huge shout out to whose pithy writing captured so much of what we are about- and without talking to us directly! Though I suspect Sterling was the bartender who “spoke fluent fermentation and answered [them] with cheerful aplomb” :)
“This bar feels important to me, possibly owing to its mix of beauty, sophistication, and accessibility. The PNW has always had b**r cred, and w**e and coffee are obviously major industries up here in the top left too, but c***r still occupies a strange social space. Too rustic for cocktail snobs, too nuanced for tech bros, too fraught with peril for insecure types who interpret any fruitiness in a beverage as weakness. But…we’re the goddamned Apple State…the PNW is home to tens of dozens of small c***r producers, many of which are using their own heirloom fruit to make completely unique c***rs, and they have few stages to shine as brightly as they can at C***r & Cedar.”
We feel so seen. And heard- the description of our playlists is spot on 😆 Link in bio to read.
