Locöl Barley & Vine, a wine and beer only restaurant in a seemingly unlikely location on 35th Ave. s.w. celebrated their first year in business on Tuesday Jan. 10 with a packed house and special treats provided by Donna Lawson and her own new business, Stuffed Cakes.

It's been an eventful year for the bar with owners Kyle Duce and Shane Whitall finding that their concept of small plates (and reasonable prices) meant that limited parking was not a limiting factor. Most of their business actually comes directly from the neighborhood, with many people actually walking to and from the neighborhood spot.

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Lawson prepared a signature cake with the business logo on it. That cake was Red Velvet with Almond Buttercream..She also prepared mini cupcakes with special flavors, Steamtrain Porter (a kind of beer) from Snoqualmie Brewery and Espresso flavor icing from Bird on a Wire Espresso plus another seasonal flavor Snowberry. "It was perfect," said Lawson, "It's exactly what Locöl does."

Duce said," It's been a blur of a year and if we could hand pick the clientel to wait on it would be who has been coming in here. The neighborhood has been so supportive and we're just happy to have happy smiling people to take care of, keeping them full."

Locöl is located at 7902 35th Ave. s.w.