#1804 - Old Post Office Saloon, Leavenworth, WA - 6/9/2012

A sports bar in the old Leavenworth, popular with the locals, who, after some undisclosed amount of patronage, get a jacket and addition to a large number of plaques on the wall.

213 9th St., Leavenworth, WA 98826 - (509) 548-7488
Est. 1985
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#1803 - Eddie's Trackside, Monroe, WA - 6/9/2012

Eddie's Trackside Bar & Grill, Monroe, WA

Update: Eddie's Trackslide closed in July 2013.


Eddie's is a moderately large neighborhood restaurant and bar run by Wendy McDowell and Stacie Ballweg, "two headstrong, talented, determined and a little bit crazy women" in Monroe, Washington. Karaoke, live music, trains rumbling by, the standard beers and spirits, and fairly good pub food.

Eddie's Trackside Bar & Grill, Monroe, WA

Eddie's Trackside Bar & Grill, Monroe, WA

Eddie's Trackside Bar & Grill, Monroe, WA

Eddie's Trackside Bar & Grill, Monroe, WA

214 N. Lewis St. Monroe, WA, Monroe, WA 98272 - (360) 805-5305
Est. Jan 13, 2006 - Closed July 2013

Web site: eddiestrackside.com - facebook 
Reviews: tuesdaysburger - urbanspoon - yelp

#1802 - Prospector's Steak and Ale House, Gold Bar, WA - 6/3/2012

Prospectors Steak & Ale, Gold Bar, WA

One of those neighborhood restaurant/bars that has regulars of all ages belting out karaoke, and a rough character or two nodding out drunk on the bar.

Prospectors Steak & Ale, Gold Bar, WA

201 Croft Ave, Gold Bar, WA 98251 - (360) 799-2461
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#1801 Icicle Brewing Company, Leavenworth, WA - 6/3/2012

Icicle Brewing Co., Leavenworth, WA

Icicle Brewing is a new brewery and tasting room in Leavenworth, WA, the only current brewery in the tourist-teeming Bavarian village that the old railroad and timber community transformed itself into in the 1960s.  Owners Oliver and Pam Brulotte also own the München Haus up the road. The building is, of course, built in the Bavarian village style of the town, it has a small inside tasting room area and a larger outdoor patio with picnic tables. Pictures of four generations of the Brulotte family show that they have a long history with hop farming and brewing.

The Icicle has limited food items and of course a choice of their beers, which have already gained some impressive attention:

"Icicle Brewing and head brewer Dean Priebe brought four medals home from the U.S. Open Beer Championship against some of the best and largest breweries in the world. The competition was held July 31 in Atlanta, Ga.  Icicle Brewing won a gold medal for its Dirtyface Amber in the Marzen/Oktoberfest division, a silver medal for it Bootjack IPA in the American IPA division and bronze medals for its Khaos Kolsch (German Kolsch) and Big George Porter (Baltic Porter)." --- Wenatchee World 8/17/2012

935 Front Street, Leavenworth, WA 98826 - (509) 548.2739
Est. April 2011
Previous bars in this location: None
Web site: iciclebrewing.com - facebook
Reviews: bierkast - beeradvocate - yelp - tripadvisor

#1800 Bubba's Road House, Sultan, WA - 6/3/2012

Bubba's Road House, Sultan, WA

How could we not stop at a place named Bubba's Road House, with a wall reading "EAT BIG FOOD," and a reader board promising extreme midget wrestling? Okay, so the midget wrestling was not going on at the time, but obviously the fact that Bubba's hosts midget wrestling in Sultan, Washington -- any midget wrestling, let alone extreme -- is a clear sign that this bar is not to be ignored.

In addition to the cultural events, Bubba's has fairly standard beers and cocktails and some pretty good BBQ and bar food offerings. It has a large beer garden in back where you can play horseshoes and watch the smoker at work. Like most of Sultan, it is right along Highway 2, where skiers and hikers stream past on their way to Stevens Pass and the Cascade Loop. But lest you think extreme midget wrestling to be the biggest thing to ever hit Sultan, way back in 1968, when the town was even smaller than now (about 1,000 people), Betty Nelson's Organic Strawberry Farm hosted The Grateful Dead, Santana, Muddy Waters, Richard Prior, about 40 other bands and 20,000 hippies in what was probably the first large, multi-day, outdoor rock festival, the Sky River Rock Festival and Lighter Than Air Fair.

Picture is Bubba himself, in Bubba's Road House, Sultan, WA

Barbecue at Bubba's Road House, Sultan, WA

924 Stevens Ave, Sultan, WA 98294 - (360) 793-3950
Est. Dec 31, 2002

Web site: facebook
Reviews: yelp

#1799 #S1033 - Las Margaritas Bullpen Lounge, Seattle - 5/29/2012

A very average American Mexican restaurant with a very typical average American Mexican restaurant bar.

14356 Aurora Ave. N, Seattle, WA 98133 - (206) 362 7527
Est. 1996 - Building constructed: 1968
Previous bars in this location: None known
lasmargaritasrest.com - facebook - yelp

#1798 #S1032 - Green Leaf, Seattle - 5/27/2012

Green Leaf is the second incarnation of a popular Vietnamese restaurant in Seattle's International District, this one in a curious basement space in the old Labor Temple building. The building itself is between the heavy foot traffic areas of Belltown and lower Queen Anne, where one presumes that it is particularly critical to establish a reputation that will attract people a bit off the beaten paths.

This wasn't always the case. From the 40s into the 90s this location hosted the Labor Temple Restaurant and Lounge, a main hangout for a thriving union scene, where workers shared drinks in the windowless lounge area they called "The Pit." Indeed, it appears to have been in the late 90s the last remaining labor temple lounge in the country. As the labor movement faded, the owners changed the name in the late 90s to the "Samuel Gompers Steak House," remembered as simply "Gompers." But Gompers did not last long, and it has subsequently had a revolving set of restaurant-bars with wildly varying themes -- the Greek Zoey Blue Plate Special, the Italian Vela Pizzeria, the Mediterranean Mira! / Faina.

Green Leaf may have a longer lifespan in the space than those, with a well established reputation and a fairly large menu of some of the better Vietnamese dishes in the city. The delicate and ornate decor feel like a different world from the aging, functional exterior of the upper floors -- even including a small pond and grotto. The lounge area features an antique bar and some interesting cocktails.

2800 1st Ave, Seattle, WA 98121 - (206) 340-1388            
Est. May 16, 2012 - Building constructed: 1942
Previous bars in this location: Labor Temple Restaurant and Lounge, Gompers Steak House, Zoey Blue Plate Bistro, Vela Pizzaria & Lounge, Mira! / Faina
Web site: greenleaftaste.com -  facebook
Reviews: seattletimes - thestranger - seattleweekly - seattlemet - yelp - urbanspoon