What to Drink
A Pike Place Market Nightcap
Three late-night pours to send you on your way.
From left, the Piledriver, the Brownstein, and If You Don't Know, Now You Know.
Image: Amber Fouts
Radiator Whiskey
The Piledriver
This secret den (see "Meet the Newcomers at Pike Place Market") is all about dark wood and even darker spirits, but this refreshing combo—bourbon, lemon, Aperol, and rhubarb, garnished with fresh mint—is proof Radiator isn’t just a wintertime hangout.
JarrBar
The Brownstein
Somehow a bar inspired by the watering holes of Spain feels just right on Western Avenue. Flavors of Amontillado sherry and gin and Cynar intertwine neatly together with cardamom—a pleasant, intermittent surprise.
Il Bistro
If You Don't Know, Now You Know
The origin story of Seattle’s entire cocktail scene is this companionably worn bar, where Murray Stenson once schooled flush ’90s tech types on the ways of a proper old fashioned. Today the cocktail list recasts classics with more au courant spirits, like this pineapple and lychee-toned mai tai riff made dark and moody as the bar itself, thanks to some activated charcoal.
