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This new concept from the venerable Cherry Street Coffee House company combines third wave coffee with an Australian-style breakfast menu (think toasts and waffles sweet and savory), Persian food for lunch and happy hour, and cocktails whenever you might need them—all enveloped in the Weyerhaeuser Building’s floor-to-ceiling windows. Read more...
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A couple of Mt. Baker neighbors designed the Saloon to be just the place they’d love to come for a cocktail: Cozy surroundings, midcentury decor, a loft with a record player, a short menu of snacks and a hot dish, even a guitar to pick up and pluck. And of course, cocktails and carefully chosen beers. Read more...
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Don’t call this Fremont bar another nautical-themed watering hole. Vodka, rum, and aquavit-based cocktails sell the motif, along with a selection of hefty beers and a Wednesday wine-by-the-bottle happy hour. The seafood-focused menu offers elevated sailor grub, composed and plated with fine dining precision at bar snack prices. Read more...
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At Flatstick Pub, local craft beer on tap meets a 9-hole mini golf course and other inventive hybrid games—try your hand at the mini-golf and shuffle board combo, Duffleboard. The Kirkland location serves meaty delights (think lamb pie with stout gravy) made by 314 Pie, while Flatstick’s newest location, a subterranean playground in Pioneer Square complete with replica space needle, Read more...
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It can be hard to suss an excellent brewery out of the masses of good ones, especially if, like Seapine, that brewery doesn’t have some major calling card or gimmick. Here there’s a gentle German slant—gose, kolsch, hefeweizen—but even that’s hardly noticeable. What is noticeable is consistently intelligent, elegant brewing: Sea Witch Stout is a standby for its style. The Read more...
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This prototypical Seattle brewery—think exposed tanks, concrete floors, no kitchen, though not quite as many dogs and toddlers—sits beside literary dive bar mecca The Blue Moon Tavern. Floating Bridge’s beer is approachable, yet playful—with offerings like a spicy juniper bitter and a chai pale ale. And the industrial austerity is balanced with relaxed neighborhood touches: grab a board game to play Read more...
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There’s a vaguely culty feel to this brewery on Interbay’s main artery. It could be the temple vibe in the austere white taproom, or maybe just the reverence with which other brewers speak of the place. Drinkers sometimes describe Holy Mountain as experimental, though it brews beers, like Germany’s tart wheat gose, that have been around for centuries. For all Read more...
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In his previous gig as Elysian’s experimental brewer, Steve Luke created hits like Space Dust IPA and Split Shot espresso milk stout. So it was big news when he opened his own place in a no-frills converted stable near Pike Place Market. Here he chases whatever idea happens to be of interest, a process that yields beers with major charisma and entertaining Read more...
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The most elegant bar in Pioneer Square is all light hues and ladylike linens, every inch the next generation of the legendary Il Terrazzo Carmine down the hall. The food is its equal—classics like beet salad and octopus risotto and buttery lamb chops, served as small plates—with an amaro collection headlining at the bar. Read more...