Miró Tapas, a new restaurant from longtime Tacoma restaurateur Robert Stocker, plans to open this month at 1502 Pacific Ave.
The address is best known as the 15-year home of Pacific Grill, which closed in 2020 after shepherding many chefs, bartenders and servers who have pursued their own businesses in Tacoma. It was replaced by Stanford’s Steak in late 2021, a short-lived concept from Bellevue-based Ascend Hospitality Group that abruptly shuttered two years later.
At the time, Mark Hollander, CEO of Hollander Hospitality which owns the building that includes the Courtyard at Marriott Downtown Tacoma, said he didn’t expect the unit to “remain vacant for long.”…