01/11/2026
Word is spreading among coffee drinking Seattleites reading the “paper” with black cats, in pajamas. Nebula is coming, dreams are becoming infrastructure and the people pictured are excited and filled with gratitude.
Here’s an excerpt: “For three years, Erin Brindley and Terry Podgorski have been wandering in Seattle’s real estate wilderness, dreaming of a new home.
The co-founders of Cafe Nordo, Seattle’s long-adored immersive culinary theater company, closed up shop on South Main Street in Pioneer Square at the end of 2022, after a hard couple of COVID years and the news that their landlord was selling the building. That space, called The Culinarium, had served them well for more than seven years, but now they were ready for something bigger and better.
“We’d been looking for something around 15 to 20,000 square feet,” Brindley said. “We also wanted a place where you could get lost, where we can bring people in and then let another world take them away.”
The pair toured spaces all over the Greater Seattle area looking for an accessible, multifloor space, but nothing felt quite right.
Back in Pioneer Square, a few short blocks from the former Culinarium, the perfect home was waiting for them…read more here https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/theater/cafe-nordo-gets-a-new-name-and-home-in-pioneer-square/