Sabine Café

Sabine is part of the weimann maclise family of restaurants, which also counts among its collection ballard’s stoneburner and macleod’s hot spots, capitol hill’s poquitos and rhein haus, and white center’s beer star. From 2009 until 2019, the historic building on ballard ave housed james weimann and deming maclise’s first restaurant together, bastille café & bar. After 10 years in service, in march 2020 the restaurant closed due to a global pandemic, but ever the optimists weimann and maclise have revitalized the space as sabine café bar & market. Sabine co-owner deming maclise opened the third location of his organic coffee shop caffe fiore in 2007, just one block from bastille. After taking over as owner and ceo of caffe vita in january 2020, including the caffe fiore locations that had sold to caffe vita in 2015, maclise was excited to reinvigorate caffe fiore in ballard. However, with a soon expiring lease and a pandemic upending the best laid plans, maclise decided to pivot and close the caffe fiore ballard location (the other three caffe fiore locations remain open) to build a coffee counter in the bastille space, with business partner james weimann. The name for the new café comes from deming and his wife michelle’s eldest daughter, sabine.