Recently a car stopped for the red light on North 85th Street, right outside Eric Donnelly’s forthcoming Bar Sur Mer. Donnelly was inside when a passenger barreled out of the vehicle and raced to the bar’s front door to ask, “Are you open yet?,” eager for an update before the light changed.
It’s easy to understand that level of excitement around the seafood-focused bar Donnelly first sketched on a piece of paper four years ago, not long after he opened the massive FlintCreek Cattle Co. next door. (The game-focused spot was Seattle Met‘s meaty Restaurant of the Year back in 2017.)
Bar Sur Mer’s neon sign’s been
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