Trivial Pursuit

The Seattleite's Guide to Bar Trivia

Fire up your brains and grab a beer. Here's your guide to dozens of trivia nights around the city.

02/20/2025 By Seattle Met Staff

Bar Guide

A Neighborhood Bar for Every Neighborhood

Our favorite dives, die-hards, and cozy hangs, by neighborhood.

08/07/2024 By Meg van Huygen With Seattle Met Staff

Side Bar

Life on Mars Spins '70s Vibes with Pike/Pine Chic

The vegan cocktail bar, run by music industry locals, lets you pick the soundtrack (sometimes).

08/20/2019 By Stefan Milne

Ales for Smart Alecks

The Seattleite's Guide to Bar Trivia

Grab a pencil (and a beer)—trivia night is on all across the city, from Ballard to Capitol Hill and beyond.

10/29/2018 Edited by Jaime Archer and Aly Brady Photography by Elizabeth Podlesnik

Fun With Listicles

21 Belltown Spots You Don't Want to Miss

From stalwart bars and biscuits to new cocktail joints and restaurants, Seattle's historic neighborhood has a lot to love.

10/22/2018 By Nosh Pit Staff

Rousing Spirits

4 Surreal Seattle Bars Worthy of Halloween Imbibing

These joints bring the strange yearlong and are especially fitting places to sip this season.

10/25/2016 By Stefan Milne

Best Bars

Neighborhood Bars: Georgetown

Cocktails, tallboys, and chili.

04/04/2016 By Allecia Vermillion

Best Bars

Neighborhood Bars: Ballard

Hello, sailor

04/03/2016 By Darren Davis

Best Bars

Neighborhood Bars: Columbia City

The Rainier Avenue bar crawl

04/03/2016 By Darren Davis

Best Bars

Neighborhood Bars: International District

Cafes and karaoke

04/03/2016 By Darren Davis

Best Bars

Neighborhood Bars: North Seattle

The neighborhoodiest of neighborhood taverns

04/03/2016 By Allecia Vermillion

Best Bars

Neighborhood Bars: Fremont

Seattle's stealth bar mecca

04/03/2016 By Darren Davis

Best Bars

Neighborhood Bars: West Seattle

Good beer, zero affectation

04/03/2016 By Allecia Vermillion

Best Bars

Neighborhood Bars: Belltown

The late late show

04/03/2016 By Allecia Vermillion

Best Bars

Neighborhood Bars: Central District

New neighbors, old neighbors.

04/03/2016 By Allecia Vermillion

Best Bars

Neighborhood Bars: Capitol Hill

Hideaways in the thick of the nightlife zone

04/03/2016 By Darren Davis

Best of the City

Seattle's Best Neighborhood Bars

Your guide to the 53 greatest dives, hideaways, lounges, and beer dens in the city.

04/03/2016 By Allecia Vermillion and Darren Davis

Behind the Scenes

How We Got That Shot

The April 2016 cover.

04/02/2016 By Sara Marie D'Eugenio

Editor's Note

The Difference Between Bars and Neighborhood Bars

Even if you’ve never been to one, you know what a neighborhood bar is.

03/28/2016 By James Ross Gardner