Other Place Closes, Files For Bankruptcy

Robert Rosellini's The Other Place Restaurant, an elegant, upscale downtown Seattle eatery, has closed and filed for reorganization under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

The restaurant, near the Pike Place Market, closed last Wednesday. The same day, the restaurant's owner, S.R. Restaurant Inc., filed for bankruptcy protection. The filing gave no financial information for the restaurant, which was relocated several years ago from another downtown location. It had been in business since the 1970s.

Robert Rosellini, The Other Place founder and an owner, was unavailable for comment. Nearby merchants said The Other Place had had very little business lately and had been opening only on alternate days.

A sign taped to the restaurant's door said: ``We are closed until further notice. Sorry for any inconvenience and thank you for your support.''

Two other relatively expensive Seattle restaurants, The Mirabeau on the top floor of a Seattle skyscraper and Henry's Off Broadway on Capitol Hill, closed on New Year's Day. Officials at both said Seattle's pre-Christmas snow storm cut severely into their business. Henry's has been under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection since last August.