MAY BE SOLD. Business partners Patrick Henley and Tom Lin may sell the Homestead Restaurant business to a local husband and wife chef team but they will retain ownership of the Alki building and land.
The historic Alki Homestead restaurant could soon be sold, owners said last week.
Co-owner Tom Lin said if the sale goes through, the new owners, husband and wife chefs, will take over the restaurant early next year and possibly close it down for remodeling for several months. But, said Lin, the name and the tradition of the Homestead will not change.
"It has been very challenging for me the past few years as I am not a restaurateur," Lin said. "My general manager Chris Long has done a tremendous job at maintaining the family style dining at Alki Homestead.
"I'm not a restaurant person, I can't do it."
It's unclear what kind of remodeling will be done to the 58-year-old restaurant. Architectural renderings are being drawn up now, said Lin, for the Homestead's "face lift."
"I truly believe it will be a better place after all said and done," he said. The sale is not yet finalized and the price is still being negotiated.
Lin said the new buyers will likely be changing the interior of the dining room and doing a full kitchen remodel.
In March, just two years after purchasing it, owners Lin and Patrick Henley put the business on the market.
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