#1470 #S887 - Schooner Exact Tap Room, Seattle - 6/11/2011

Update: The Schooner Exact Tasting Room was replaced by the San Juan Seltzery in Sep 2019.

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The Schooner Exact was the ship that carried the Denny party -- the first European settlers in the area -- to Seattle in 1851. The brewery also has a history line of beers, including "3 Grid IPA" honoring the conflicting grid systems of the city, and "Regrade Pale." Marcus Connery and Matt & Heather McClung started the brewery in 2006, and opened the Tap Room after moving to their current SoDo location in 2010.



The tap room is particularly pleasant in the summer, with the garage doors open and the small patio in use. Schooner Exact also brews the Brave Horse Tavern beers for Tom Douglas.

3901 1st Ave S, Seattle, WA 98134 - (206) 432-9734
Est. 2010 - Closed 2019 - Building constructed 1946
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#1469 #S886 - Cornuto, Seattle - 6/11/2011

"Cornuto" means the "the horns," I was informed, but if you look it up, it also means "cuckold," and is "perhaps the worst insult you can give an Italian man."  I'm not sure what it is doing on a Neapolitan-style pizza place from the Via Tribunali folks (it was to be called "Pizzeria Napolitano" at one time).  But it's a nice place with good pizza, a tiny patio, big open window on warm days, and an oven made from volcanic rock from Mt. Versuvius.

I believe I was actually the first customer for this place.  I was in the neighborhood on this day, and stuck my head in when I noticed the door open.  They told me they opened at 4:00, and when I came back at 4:12 I was the only customer there.  (I only had drinks, not any pizza, on this particular trip.)

A bit more on "cornuto":  "It was an ancient custom to cut the spurs off castrated cocks and graft them to the birds' heads, where they grew as horns. Since the horned capon was a strutting definition of sexual inadequacy, its horns became a symbol of cuckoldry. The sign of the horns, he said, should not be confused with the somewhat similar gesture of defense against the evil eye (index and little finger pointing parallel)"  (Time)


7404 Greenwood Ave, Seattle, WA 98103 -
Est. 6/11/2011 - Building constructed: 1910
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#1468 #S885 - Bang Bar, Seattle - 6/10/2011

A mainly Thai restaurant with some great, modern variations on the normal American Thai restaurant fare ("Bang" = town or province in Thai).

4750 California Avenue SW, Seattle, WA 98116 - (206) 935-8888
Est. 6/10/2011 - Building constructed: 1910
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#1473 - Side Street Kitchen and Bar, Burien, WA - 6/18/2011

717 SW 148th St, Seattle, WA 98166 - (206) 402-5428
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#1467 #S884 - Blue Nile, Seattle - 6/9/2011

One of a slew of small Ethiopian restaurants in this neighborhood, with an even smaller bar.

456 12th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122 - (206) 320-8501
Building constructed: 1923
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#1466 #S883 - Dahlak Lounge, Seattle - 6/9/2011

Update: Dahlak is now closed (since 2018?)

 AKA Dahlak Eritrean Cuisine.  Very good Eritrean food during the day and a medium sized nightclub during the evenings.  A nicer place than you might first guess from the exterior and interior decor.

This site previously housed Kim's Nightclub (Vietnamese/hiphop) and then Male Exotic Dancers Club.

2007 S State St, Seattle, WA 98144 - (206) 860-0400
Est. 2005 - Building constructed: 1926
Previous bars at this location: Kim's Nightclub
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#1465 #S882 - Sarajevo, Seattle - 6/7/2011

The web site for this new lounge, in the former space of the Del Rey and the old Catholic Seamen's Club, states "We are an upscale European Club serving homemade Bosnian Cuisine and American Classics. Come out, dress classy, and party the European way."  So do people dress classy?  You be the judge.  The cocktails are not very interesting, but it does feature what is apparently very authentic Bosnian food, and plays music from the former Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, and Greece.

2332 1st Ave, Seattle, WA 98121 - (206) 448-9000
Est. 2011 - Building constructed: 1937
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