The Tipping Point

Sauced Service Awards

…in which we call out bartenders and servers for their standout hospitality. This week’s winner: Pacific Inn Pub

03/31/2009

Behind the bar

Five Questions for the Bartender: Quentin Ertel

The man behind the Saint and Havana muses on mezcal, Sambar, and witnessing the so-called Sneaker Riot.

03/30/2009

Beer

Trippel Threats

Local brewers, bartenders, and bottleshop owners are all about the Belgian-style beers.

03/27/2009

Events

Sweet 16

Sixteen Seattle sports bars where you can watch—or not watch—the Gonzaga/UNC showdown.

03/26/2009

Article

Happy Hour of the Week: La Isla

Cheap island fare in Ballard

03/25/2009

New Deals

Kukuruza Popping Up at Happy Hour

With apologies for the horrible pun.

03/24/2009

Booze News

How High? Knee High

New speakeasy-style bar opens tomorrow night on Olive Way.

03/23/2009

Behind the bar

Five Questions for the Bartender: JJ Wandler

The owner/barman at Gainsbourg is also a union hero, a pusher of Pernod, and a diehard David Lynch Fan.

03/22/2009

Booze News

New Croc Opens Tonight!

Check out the very cool update of a Belltown icon.

03/19/2009

Oeno Files

Cheap Wine for Weeknights: Marques de Caceres Rioja

A value rioja for the dinner table.

03/18/2009

Happy Hour

Happy Hour of the Week: Monsoon East

Crazy good happy hour food on the other side of the lake.

03/17/2009

Booze News

From Texas, with Love

Tomorrow marks the opening of Lost Lady American Cantina, where you’ll find tequila, Tex/Mex, and eight female bartenders.

03/16/2009

Behind the bar

Five Questions for the Bartender: Keith Bartoloni

Five Questions talks to the man behind the bar at Hazlewood and learns you can take the bartender out of Boston, but you can’t stop him from wondering what God would look like were he (she?) a "wicked hot chick." It only gets weirder fro

03/15/2009 By Jessica Voelker

Slideshow

Five Questions for the Bartender: Keith Bartoloni

03/15/2009

Article

Happy Hour of the Week: The Tin Table

This sparkly new Capitol Hill bar and restaurant has half-price bottles five nights a week, plus plenty of peoplewatching.

03/13/2009

Holiday Drinking

St Patrick’s Day Guide 2009

Which Irish pub will open the earliest? Which Pogues cover band will play where? Where can you get some of those green Mardi Gras beads already? Sauced has the lowdown on St Patty’s, Seattle style.

03/12/2009

Oeno Files

Cheap Wine for Weeknights: Seattle Wine Outlet

03/10/2009

Behind the bar

Five Questions for the Bartender: Anna Wallace

Linda Derschang’s lead bartender talks Pike Place Market, squid ink, and burning hair.

03/09/2009

Booze News

This Week in Drinking

Free Flamenco on Capitol Hill, new cocktail focused cantina on Union, and the Washington Post’s third annual suds smackdown.

03/08/2009

Drink of the Week

Drink of the Week: the Presbyterian at Tini Bigs

It’s American history in a highball glass.

03/06/2009