Class of 2020: 5-Year Reunion

The weekends-only crab roll helped Local Tide survive its first half-decade.

On Christmas Day 2019, Evan Leichtling and Meghna Prakash gave themselves a very expensive present: the keys to the space that became Off Alley. Two weeks later, Melissa Miranda debuted her dream, a restaurant where the menu reflected her Filipino Northwest childhood, at Musang. Across town, Victor Steinbrueck worked toward a plan to open Local Tide by March.

Then, of course, March 2020 happened, sending plans cartwheeling off cliffs, churning entrepreneurs down a raging river of ever-changing regulations, and spinning the restaurant industry on a merry-go-round of pivots for months, even years. More than a million

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