At Seattle's Canlis, Reinvention is Key to the Historic Restaurant's Survival

When brothers Mark and Brian Canlis approached their parents about temporarily shuttering their iconic family-owned restaurant just as the first cases of COVID-19 were being reported in Seattle, Chris and Alice Canlis were skeptical. The fine-dining restaurant, overlooking Lake Union in the city’s Queen Anne neighborhood, had only closed twice in its 70-year history: when John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and after a fatal bus crash on the nearby Aurora Bridge, when the...