The second floor of the yellow Craftsman house in the heart of Tacoma’s Proctor District has been a restaurant for 30 years, and the ground floor has been home to a yoga studio for more than a decade. Things will change at the end of the month.
Tuladhara Yoga , which bought the studio that was Tacoma Yoga in 2019, will host its final class Dec. 23. The Snug Pub, originally planned for the existing restaurant space upstairs, will instead take over the whole building, focusing on the main floor.
Ann Evans, the wife of late Tacoma civic leader and Proctor booster Bill Evans, remains the owner of 2717 N. Proctor St. Her son, Paul Evans and his wife Andrea, are behind the family-friendly pub concept. They are planning a menu that blends burgers, sandwiches and four pizzas with Irish classics.
“No pub could be a pub without shepherd’s pie,” said Andrea Evans in a December phone call, but she added it won’t be wholly traditional.
They are also planning some unusual items like rattlesnake sausage on pizza and in pasta, a nod to the myth that St. Patrick drove snakes out of Ireland. (Historians say the island had been snake-free since at least the time of the ice ages, and scholars surmise that the St. Patrick legend was a religious allegory against the pagans.)