We’ve spent the last two years living and breathing local bars, interviewing bartenders and business owners, studying the cocktail canon, and sipping way too many stiff drinks to count.

In This Feature:

Best Bars 2011

Where can you get a good drink in this town?

02/14/2011 By Jessica Voelker With Katie Ormsby

Best Bars 2011: Women Behind Bars

Once an old boys’ club, craft ­cocktailing today is the domain of saucy dames like the seven ­featured here.

02/21/2011

Women Behind Bars: The Videos

Behind the bar with six of our city’s master drink makers.

02/23/2011

Neighborhood Bar Crawls

Drink your way through Seattle’s best bars.

02/18/2011 By Clancey Denis and Rachel Sturtz

Neighborhood Bar Crawls: Ballard

Drink your way through Seattle’s best bars.

02/18/2011 By Clancey Denis and Rachel Sturtz

Neighborhood Bar Crawls: Bellevue

Drink your way through Seattle’s best bars.

02/18/2011 By Clancey Denis and Rachel Sturtz

Neighborhood Bar Crawls: Belltown

Drink your way through Seattle’s best bars.

02/18/2011 By Clancey Denis and Rachel Sturtz

Neighborhood Bar Crawls: Downtown

Drink your way through Seattle’s best bars.

02/18/2011 By Clancey Denis and Rachel Sturtz

Neighborhood Bar Crawls: Queen Anne

Drink your way through Seattle’s best bars.

02/18/2011 By Clancey Denis and Rachel Sturtz

Neighborhood Bar Crawls: Fremont and Wallingford

Drink your way through Seattle’s best bars.

02/18/2011 By Clancey Denis and Rachel Sturtz

Neighborhood Bar Crawls: Phinney Ridge

Drink your way through Seattle’s best bars.

02/18/2011 By Clancey Denis and Rachel Sturtz

Neighborhood Bar Crawls: Capitol Hill

Drink your way through Seattle’s best bars.

02/18/2011 By Clancey Denis and Rachel Sturtz

Neighborhood Bar Crawls: First Hill

Drink your way through Seattle’s best bars.

02/18/2011 By Clancey Denis and Rachel Sturtz