• HOURS: Mon-Fri 3-6pm; All day Sunday.
• PRICES: Food specials $5 (with drink purchase); House wine, micro pints, well drinks, select shots $3; German ½ liter beers $3.50

I went to college in a one-street town that offered a sad little selection of bars. There was the salad bar place—okay for $1 draft night on Wednesdays, but kind of pricey otherwise and pretty much no fun. There was the Italian restaurant that dusted off the Jägermeister tap after dinner hours, but the meatheads had already laid claim. I was grateful for the corralling effect it had, but I didn’t want to drink there. If you wanted to hit up some honest to goodness bars you had to drive the three hours north to Montreal, but there was always the problem of getting home.

I offer this lengthy preamble as an introduction to why, the first time I walked into Shultzy’s Sausage, I actually felt jealous of the UW undergraduate population. Because here was the bar that was missing from my college days. Great beers on tap, wooden booths inside, a cozy deck out back, towering heaps of fresh shoestring fries, and all day happy hour on Sunday.

But the excellent thing about this little U-District sausage spot, for those of us born before the mid-1980s anyway, is that it doesn’t feel like a college bar—at least before midnight. Shultzy’s is famous for its housemade sausage and sweet-potato fries, but the hot wings and chili cheese fries (both $5 during HH) are also spot on, and there’s a lovely little selection on tap, featuring beers from Germany, Belgium, and the Northwest.

[Photo: James Callan]

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