Reclaimed style and rooftop garden at Seattle's Bastille Cafe & Bar

Bastille Cafe & Bar recently opened in an 85-year old for Machinist shop in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood. What's particularly cool about this new spot is the amount of reclaimed material that the owners have used in their interior.

In addition to bricks, clam shell shelving and a massive iron hood salvaged from the building itself, there are pendant lamps and buttresses salvaged from a French church, a Parisian Metro clock,and railing from a Seattle mansion and a bridge on the MLK causeway in Portland, circa 1930.

The result is a dining room and bar that have given new life to found objects, all the while maintaining the integrity of the original building.

Additionally, the owners have fortified the roof in order to support 15,000 lbs of soil in 12 beds filled with arugula and herbs. More and more chefs, community organizations and private citizens in dense, urban areas are taking advantage of usable space by planting gardens on their roofs.

You can't get anymore fresh or local than when the food grows right on your roof!