OUTscene NW: OutWest owners announce LGBT-friendly plans: ‘A safe place’

The owners of OutWest – the new bar in the works for the former Westside Pharmacy building at California/Brandon, south of West Seattle Nursery, first reported here last December – are finally ready to discuss details with West Seattle Blog.


After months of working through permitting processes, Bob Lunke and business partner Chad Gabelein are announcing their plans for OutWest Bar to be a LGBT-community-friendly establishment. We reported its name back in February, but even then they weren’t ready to comment beyond saying they were working on a “small, comfortable neighborhood (establishment).”

The newest Bar will include a full kitchen, open for dinner and initially serving appetizers and entrees such as burgers and Caesar salad. They plan to adapt the menu to the clientele’s tastes as they go.

The last West Seattle establishment that marketed itself as for the LGBT community was Guppy’s, on the corner in The Junction that has since been home to a variety of restaurants including Ovio, Ama Ama, and Table 35, and will soon reopen as A Terrible Beauty. (The Bohemian which had a Lesbian following closed late last year.)

OutWest’s owners anticipate opening sometime this summer.