Excellent!

Sauced, the Seattle Metropolitan Magazine’s blog about Seattle bars and booze, is reporting that a classic cocktail bar is coming to the Green Lake / Ravenna area. Rocky Yeh (basically the coolest guy in Seattle) and Paul Goodman are planning to name the bar Faraway.

“You shouldn’t have to go downtown to get a great cocktail,” said Goodman, formerly of Hotel 1000 and Expedia. He has been working on the concept for over a year (Yeh came aboard about six months ago), and says he’ll run the business side while Yeh will man the bar, serving up small-batch spirits from both here and abroad. “We won’t have the usual crap like Smirnoff” Goodman told me.

Yeh has been tinkering with the menu, which will be composed of flavor-forward small plates like those at Oliver’s Twist (which Goodman cites as the only other great cocktail bar on that side of town).

[Sauced]

We’ll be following @FarawayBar on Twitter and will let you know once we see news of a (Green Lake!  Green Lake!  Green Lake, please!) location.