This morning I attended a media thingy at Amazon’s new SLU headquarters. This included a look inside the Brave Horse Tavern, the new pretzel-and-beer bar from Tom Douglas, one of three establishments he’s opening there.

It’s very pretty. There’s lots of exposed brick and repurposed wood and old timey signage…it basically looks a lot like the new Serious Pie down the street. But check out these shuffleboard tables! Don’t they make you want to play shuffleboard?

Brave Horse opens the first week in April. If you can’t wait that long, try one of these places:

1. The entire back area of Auto Battery on Capitol Hill is devoted to shuffleboard. Claim a table early—happy hour is from 3pm to 7pm daily.

2. Big Time Brewery in the U-District has a shuffleboard table along with good beer and cheap, filling food befitting its student clientele. Stuffed baked potatoes? Yes indeed. [UPDATE: Awkward. The BTB no longer has shuffleboard even though the web site says it does. My fault, I guess I’ve been too distracted by my delicious overstuffed potatoes to notice the table went away.]

3. Garage has shuffleboard downstairs, in case you want to escape your office mates during the next bowling bonding venture.

4. In Eastlake, there’s Zoo Tavern, an amiable dive bar that serves pitchers of beer but no liquor. There’s also a snooker table. If there is a better word out there than “snooker,” I’d sure like to hear it.

5. Nobody’s trying too hard or caring too much at the 9LB Hammer in Georgetown—except at the shuffleboard table, where certain spazzy east coasters have been known to get a little competitive (and loud, much to the irritation of the people not trying too hard).

Bonus shuffleboard table: Lava Lounge in Belltown!