//The Future of the Intimate Chef’s Counter Is in Doubt

The Future of the Intimate Chef’s Counter Is in Doubt

Chef Aaron Tekulve was just getting started. After building a following with the well-received Pacific Northwest wine and food pop-up Surrell for the past three years, Tekulve had been putting the finishing touches on a cozy wine bar of the same name on Capitol Hill earlier this spring, with a chef’s counter set up for tasting menus. The space was housed in a more-than-century old historic building formerly occupied by new American restaurant Crush, and it was almost ready to