Ten Years on Eden Hill
How a 24-seat storefront on Queen Anne Hill became one of Seattle’s most quietly acclaimed restaurants.
Eden Hill Restaurant opened its doors on September 4, 2015, in a narrow storefront at 2209 Queen Anne Ave N — a single room, one kitchen, and twenty-four seats.
The restaurant was the work of chef Maximillian Petty, a Seattle-area native whose path to the stove started young: he began as a prep and line cook in his eldest sister’s restaurant while still in high school. Max tried, more than once, to pull away from the kitchen as a young adult — and kept getting drawn back. He went on to cook at restaurants across the country, including Crème Café & Lounge, King Estate Winery, and Olivia, before returning to Seattle to open Eden Hill in 2015.
Where the name came from
Queen Anne Hill wasn’t always called Queen Anne Hill. Among its earlier names were “Galer’s Hill” and “Eden Hill” — and the restaurant borrowed the latter as a quiet tribute to the neighborhood it called home.
A kitchen that never stood still
What set Eden Hill apart wasn’t size — it was restlessness. The kitchen printed a new menu every single day. Over the course of a typical month, guests could expect to see roughly forty percent of the a la carte dishes change entirely, while the nightly chef’s tasting menu moved with even more frequency. Regulars came back not for a signature dish, but for whatever the kitchen was working through that week: sourdough with cultured goat cheese one visit, a wagyu ribeye with miso mayo the next, a foie gras cake batter dessert dressed up like something from a childhood birthday party.
The restaurant offered both an a la carte menu and a multi-course chef’s tasting nightly, along with a full cocktail and wine program built around small-production bottles from Washington, France, Italy, and beyond. Guests could book the dining room, a window table, seats at the bar, or the Chef’s Counter for a closer view of the kitchen at work.
Recognition along the way
Chef Petty earned three separate semifinalist nominations from the James Beard Foundation for Rising Star Chef over the years Eden Hill was open, and the restaurant was a regular name on Seattle “best of” lists from local and national press alike. In 2017, the James Beard Foundation brought its Taste America tour through Seattle, drawing on chefs from restaurants like Eden Hill to represent the city’s dining scene nationally.
The Eden Hill family of restaurants
Eden Hill Restaurant was owned and operated by Eden Hill Hospitality, which also ran Big Max Burger Co. and Ho*Spice, along with Eden Hill Provisions — a sister bar a short walk away on Queen Anne Avenue N. Together, the group built a small but recognizable footprint in the neighborhood over the course of a decade.
A dining room for celebrations, too
Beyond nightly service, Eden Hill’s small dining room played host to private celebrations over the years — including weddings, with the restaurant’s storefront and window display dressed for the occasion.
Closing, ten years to the day
Eden Hill Restaurant served its last guests and closed permanently on September 4, 2025 — ten years to the day after it first opened. It was a quiet, deliberate ending for a restaurant that had never chased attention in the first place: twenty-four seats, a menu that changed by the day, and a decade of guests who kept coming back to see what the kitchen would do next.
This site exists to keep that decade on the record — the menu, the people who ran the dining room and the kitchen, and the photographs that Catherine Abegg and Kevin Zansler took of the space over the years. Explore the final dinner menu, meet the people behind Eden Hill, or browse the full photo archive.
Eden Hill Restaurant, 2015–2025. Owned and operated by Eden Hill Hospitality on Queen Anne Hill, Seattle. This page is maintained as a historical record and is not an active business listing.