Clyde Common Owners Plan New Bar in Biwa Building

Martin Schwartz and Nate Tilden filed a liquor license application Jan. 22

By Matthew Korfhage

Looks like the goofy yellow Pine Street Theater building—already home to Biwa izakaya and catering spot Simpatica—is about to get even more stacked with food and liquor.

Clyde Common co-owners Nate Tilden and Martin Schwartz, along with two other partners, have filed a liquor license to open a bar called Casa Vale Bar.

Schwartz would be the managing partner on the project.

Besides Clyde Common, Schwartz's previous projects include Fremont Street's Free House and Division Street's Richmond Bar.

Both have a large tap list of local brews, along with elevated bar food (fancy mac and cheese, hand-pattied burgers) and distinctive craft cocktails that stay mostly on the nice side of double digit prices.

Tilden is a co-owner or co-founder of Richmond Bar, Olympia Provisions, Pepe le Moko and Spirit of '77.

We've reached out to Schwartz about the project, and will fill in info as it becomes available.

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