SOHO - 1985-86

SOHO - 1985-86
2214 Second Ave

Restaurant reviewer Jean Godden, described the brand-new restaurant SoHo in her review for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer,  published January 14, 1984: "SoHo is one of a growing number of enterprises that combine business operations. SoHo sells pasta and ponchos, pate and paintings. The place has an arty aura, not unlike its London namesake. The building, built in 1908 to house a garage, accommodates a clothing shop, a mirrored bar, and an airy dining room with a skylight. ... Soho is a joint venture of Lois Pierris and Randall Blue. Blue is the imaginative artist of the kitchen"

Owner Lois Pierris was also co-owner of B&O Espresso on Capitol Hill, Serafina on Eastlake, and Ristorante Pony on Queen Anne. She later went on to run Lulu's (421 Second Ave S., which was in business from 2001 to 2003.

Subsequent occupants of the space were:

La Rive Gauche - 1985-92
Mr. Blues - 1993 - ?
Tula's Jazz Cub - 1995-2019

1985

July 1985

6 - 5 Sides Collide

September 1985

19 - Barry Pollock

21 - Party Of Four
28 - No News

October 1985

19 - Weird Of Mouth

24 - Jim Lyon

25 - Dick Powell Band

26 - Arms Akimbo

31 - All Night Diner Band

November 1985

2 - Party of Four

8 - No News

14 - Jazz Trio

15 - e

16 - Green Pajamas

21 - Alan Goodman & William Dummitt

22 - Marathon Band

23 - Koostic Koo Dot Tah

29 - Perfect Circles

30 - Handful Of Dust

December 1985

5 - Violet Caste, Tor Mibstkog

6 - Party Of Four

7 - Feast

8 - Fashion Show w/King Valco, Living Dolls, Young Fresh Fellows

12 - Shent 

13 - Celestial Pygmies

14 - Space Angels, music by Mark Sargent

20 - Fred

21 - Green Monkey Records Xmas Party w/Prudence Dredge, Green Pajamas

27-28 - Marathon Band

31 - Fred, Danger Bunny, Sean O'Neill, Jim Anderson Experience

1986

January 1986

2 - Melting Fish

3 - Pure Joy

4 - Film At 11

10 - Sound Color

11 - Blackwood-Laird

16 - Monhart, Treistman Band

17 - Kitty Kats

18 - Fred

23 - Gary Heffern

24 - Roland & Bill (Blackouts), Cree & Dave

25 - Party Of Four

30 - Dave Mink improv

31 - First Thought

February 1986

1 - Living Dolls

6 - Gary May & Dayton Allemann

7 - Walkabouts

8 - Cinema 90

14 - Blackwood-Laird, No News

15 - Applied Science

20 - Alan Goodman, William Dummitt

21 - Koostic Koo Dot Tah

22 - Lost Architects

27 - Voices From The Moon

March 1986

7 - Life In General

8 - Moving Parts

9 - Allright!

13 - Rhythm Arts
14 - Usual Suspects

21 - Stanley's Wife, Sympathy Cards

22 - First Thought

23 - The Dilemma

28 - Green Pajamas

29 - Teeth Like Crazy

April 1986

4 - 4 Bad Dudes

5-6 - Prudence Dredge, Slack
10 - Rhythm Arts

11 - Celestial Pygmies (A flyer exists that has Soul Asylum & Soundgarden as playing this date)

12 - Walkabouts

13 - Allright!

17 - Len Kendrick

18 - Feast

19 - Brilliant Orange, Durango Five

20 - Public Domaine
24 - Morgan & Friends, Gary May

25 - All Mighty Dread

26 - Rumors Of The Big Wave

27 - Handful Of Dust

May 1986

3 - Allright!

9 - Alan Goodman, William Dummit

10 - Life In General

15 - Rudy Yuly

16 - Greta Goehle & Friends

17 - Danger Bunny, Crypt Kicker 5

30 - Nora Michaels

31 - Rumors Of The Big Wave

SOHO closed in June 1986