This Is the Last Weekend for the Kraken Bar | Eater Seattle

"I followed Matia Kitchen and Bar's first incarnation as a brief but incredibly eventful restaurant: it opened in 2021, was widely praised by food critics, earned a mention in the New York Times, and was longlisted for a James Beard Foundation Award in 2022, only to suddenly close this January after a dispute between the restaurant's owners and chef Avery Adams and general manager Drew Downing. Now Adams and Downing are reopening Matia under new ownership in a new Eastsound location, and the new site is already accepting reservations." - Harry Cheadle