The Lusty Lady Strip Club’s Basement Will Become a New Cocktail Bar

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• Downtown’s former Lusty Lady strip club, with all of its pun-laden signage, is being transformed into a boutique hotel. In the basement, former Zig Zag barman Erik Hakkinen hopes to open the Pink Lady cocktail bar by the end of this year.
• Seattle Times critic Providence Cicero visited Port Townsend’s new destination restaurant, Finistère, and called the food “impeccable” and “delicious.”
• Bluebird Ice Cream has closed is Capitol Hill shop and is searching for a new home within the neighborhood by summer. Phinney Ridge and Fremont locations remain open.

• Pop-up pro Eric Rivera is hosting his former Alinea boss, world-renowned chef Grant Achatz, at his Addo space for two nights in February. But only the swiftest of mouse-clickers nabbed a seat; tickets sold out within minutes of going on sale yesterday.
• Seattle’s new tax on sugary drinks has taken effect, resulting in price increases at grocery stores and other retailers for items like Coca-Cola and Gatorade. Costco suggests shoppers head to the Tukwila or Shoreline locations — i.e., shop outside of the city to avoid the tax.