#700 - Ama Ama Oyster Bar, Seattle (West Seattle) - 9/4/2008

Update: Ama Ama closed in 2009

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The most swank bar in Seattle -- absolutely beautiful everywhere you look, like a living Shag painting.

Try the: Starrlight

4752 California Ave SW, Seattle, WA 98116 (map)
Est. 2007 - Closed 2009 - Building constructed: 1910
Previous bars at this location: Guppy's West, Ovio Bistro
Subsequent bars at this location: Table 35, A Terrible Beauty
(ama-amaseattle.com - facebook - yelp - Seattle PI)

#699 - Red Onion Tavern, Seattle - 7/11/2008 (OOO)

#698 - Impromptu, Seattle - 7/11/2008 (OOO)

Impromptu Wine Bar closed at the end of 2009

4235 E Madison St, Seattle, WA 98112 - (206) 860-1569
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#697 - The Cactus, Seattle (Madison Park) - 7/11/2008 (OOO)

#696 - West Five, Seattle (West Seattle) - 9/4/2008

Update: West 5 closed Feb 12, 2022

Kitschy cocktails. Cool. (web site)

4539 California Avenue Southwest Seattle, WA 98116-4110 - (206) 935-1966
Est. 2003 - Closed Feb 12, 2022 - Building constructed 1929

#695 - Jolly Roger Taproom (Pacific Maritime Brewery, Seattle (Ballard) - 9/4/2008

#694 - The T-Bird Tavern, Seattle (Ballard) - 8/31/2008

Thunderbird Tavern, Seattle - Joe Nix mural

The Thunderbird/T-Bird bar next door to a small strip club is in a space that has hosted a bar since the late 1930s. By 1941 it was the "Pilot House Inn" and in 1959 became the "Thunderbird Tavern." It closed again in mid 2013, but reopened the following February under new owners Madison Eckendorf and Ian Smith, who have preserved the diveyness, and eventually added a beautiful Joe Nix mural to the north side of the building.

 Overheard from a Thunderbird customer (discussing a different bar): "You can't have a 70-year-old woman totin' around kegs and have a ditch in back ..."

Thunderbird Tavern, Seattle - 2008

7515 15th Ave NW,  Seattle, WA 98117 - (206) 706-4973
Closed 2013 - Building constructed 1936
Previous bars at this location: Pilot House Inn
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