Outdoor courtyard with a curving glass window wall and metal tables and chairs with a yellow and a blue umbrella and the red box logo with white words Bar Cicotti overlaid in center

Bar Cicotti

Tuesdays-Saturdays, 11 AM – 9 PM

202 Grand Ave., Inside the Lightcatcher building

Bar Cicotti (chi-koh-ti) is a coffee and wine bar with fun simple Italian-style eats located inside the Whatcom Museum’s Lightcatcher building in downtown Bellingham, and brought to you by the owner of Storia Cucina, Jonathan Cicotti. Cicotti is Jonathan’s Italian family’s name where many of his recipes and roots come from in Cento in Northern Italy. Just as in Italy, Bar Cicotti will serve as a coffee bar during the day and drinking bar at night. Follow Bar Cicotti on Instagram!

Jonathan Cicotti was born in the state of Washington and raised in the Puget Sound on Lopez Island in the San Juan Islands. At a young age, Jonathan learned the art of sustainable farming surrounded by organic food from his mother’s garden, preserving fruits and vegetables, watching chickens roaming freely in the backyard, working on his father’s small organic vineyard, taking hunting and fishing excursions with his older brother, and learning rustic Italian cooking through his Italian roots. And so began his passion for culinary arts.

Chef Jonathan opened a slow food restaurant, “Hillside Supper Club” in San Francisco in 2012. He has received national attention in publications such as Star ChefsFood & Wine, and Zagat, as well as cooking in the famous James Beard House in NYC. Jonathan opened Storia Cucina, a successful Italian restaurant in May 2020, receiving “Best New Restaurant in Bellingham of 2020.” Jonathan has recipes from his Italian family roots “Cicotti,” and couldn’t be more excited to share them with his Pacific Northwest home roots.