In Seattle's Fremont neighborhood, Heavy Restaurant Group has opened Nolu Hall, a new food hall.^[1] The address is 3400 Stone Way N.^[2] The roomThe space has a history. Purple Café and Wine Bar closed its Stone Way location on Aug. 1.^[3] Heavy then planned a new concept for the same address.^[4] That concept replaced the former Purple.^[5] The group had set a fall launch.^[6] Larry Kurofsky is the group's chief executive.^[7] The foodNolu Hall holds three restaurants: Mallard Smashburgers, Corners Tavern Style Pizza and Parcel Grain Bowls.^[8] Here is the detail a line cook notices first. All three run out of one shared kitchen and take orders at one shared counter.^[9] A review is in. Aimee Rizzo wrote it for The Infatuation.^[10] She rated the smashburgers and the pizza as tasty.^[11] She was less taken with the grain bowls and called them bland.^[12] So the order is clear for a first visit: a smashburger and a tavern pie. There is more than food in the room. Pool tables sit at the back of the space.^[13] The groupThe operators know this kind of room. Heavy Restaurant Group has served Seattle and Woodinville for 25 years.^[14] Heavy also runs Purple and Hushy's.^[15] Its own site lists Hal's Sports Bar, Hushy's Sandwiches, Pablo y Pablo and Purple Cafe & Wine Bar.^[16] Hushy's Sandwiches shares the same address, 3400 Stone Way N.^[17] Pablo y Pablo sits a few blocks away at 1605 N. 34th Street.^[18] Its list includes Pablo y Pablo, Hal's Sports Bar and Hushy's Sandwiches.^[19] Purple opened its first restaurant in Woodinville in 2001.^[20] Purple runs two active locations.^[21] One is downtown at 1225 4th Ave.^[22] The other is in Woodinville.^[23] Getting thereThe hall is open now at 3400 Stone Way N.^[2][24] Bring a friend who plays pool, order the burger and the pizza, and claim a table at the back.^[11][13]