2100 Alaskan Way, Seattle - (206) 256-1040
yelp - best hotel bar to meet a silver fox
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Sunday, January 24, 2010
#983 - Louie's, Seattle (Ballard) - 1/23/2010
Update: Louie's Cuisine of China closed on June 29, 2014
The Louie family have been running Seattle restaurants since the 1930s, and this one seems to serve the bland form of Chinese food that is popular with elderly white people. But the elaborate decor and old school bar make it worth a visit.
In a previous post I opined that lounges attached to Chinese restaurants are widely bifurcated into "classic" types and "slipshod" types. The lounge at Louie's Cuisine of China was recommended as a good classic type. And indeed it is, with a very nice decor, though with a curiously limited set of baseball memorabilia somewhat conflicting with the theme, a limited, standard bar menu, and a nice little set of regulars.
The latter, on the Saturday afternoon I dropped by, including a 60-ish man with a white mohawk, and a large guy in a Hawaiian shirt who brought his prized meatloaf in thinking it was meatloaf contest night. "I worked all day on that," the guy said, "Look at my presentation!" It turns out that the meatloaf contest is next Sunday.
5100 15th Avenue Northwest, Seattle, WA 98107-3899 - (206) 782-8855
Est. ? (1976?) - Closed June 29, 2014 - Building constructed: 1976
louiescuisine.com - yelp - citysearch
The Louie family have been running Seattle restaurants since the 1930s, and this one seems to serve the bland form of Chinese food that is popular with elderly white people. But the elaborate decor and old school bar make it worth a visit.
The latter, on the Saturday afternoon I dropped by, including a 60-ish man with a white mohawk, and a large guy in a Hawaiian shirt who brought his prized meatloaf in thinking it was meatloaf contest night. "I worked all day on that," the guy said, "Look at my presentation!" It turns out that the meatloaf contest is next Sunday.
5100 15th Avenue Northwest, Seattle, WA 98107-3899 - (206) 782-8855
Est. ? (1976?) - Closed June 29, 2014 - Building constructed: 1976
louiescuisine.com - yelp - citysearch
#982 - Faire Gallery Cafe, Seattle - 1/22/2010
Faire Gallery Café (from the French verb "faire" or "to make") hosts rotating art displays, live jazz, and other forms of live music, and a small but nice menu of food and drinks.
1351 East Olive Way, Seattle WA - (206) 652-0781
Est. March 2006 - Closed June 2012
fairegallerycafe.com - myspace - yelp - seattle weekly - seattlepi
The Living Room, Seattle - 1/22/2010
The Living Room, which opened on Halloween 2009, has a very lovely and relaxing, two-level decor, and very good cocktails. There is a limited food menu, but the focus is the drinks, created by owner, local artist, and bartender Monika Proffitt. This is one of the better places in the area to have a drink and some conversation, and given the current embarrassment of riches along Olive Way, that is saying something considerable.
(Note: I have not incremented the number on this entry because I accidentally listed the Living Room in my starting set of bars, probably due to confusion with the Sitting Room.)
1355 East Olive Way, Seattle, WA 98122 - (206) 708-6021
Est. Oct. 2009 - Closed Aug 28, 2012
thelivingroombar.com - seattle weekly - the stranger - seattlemet - yelp
Thursday, January 21, 2010
#981 - Bandits, Seattle - 1/20/2010
Sort of a neighborhood bar where you don't expect a neighborhood bar. The drinks and decor were pretty unremarkable, but the tamales get multiple rave reviews.
159 Denny Way, Seattle, WA 98109 - (206) 443-5447
Est. Dec 27, 2007 - Closed 2018 - Building constructed 2005
banditsbar.com - myspace - yelp - citysearch - the stranger
#980 - La Isla, Seattle (Ballard) - 1/20/2010
Update: La Isla was closed by fire on Oct 7, 2019
I'm not sure if they do this every happy hour, but when I stumbled in they had $2 mohitos! Of course they also have Seattle's most extensive rum menu. (They have also had more than their share of major league ballplayers drop in.) Viva Puerto Rico!
2320 NW Market St., Seattle, WA 98107 - (206) 789-0516
laislaseattle.com - facebook - seattle times - the stranger - yelp - citysearch - seattle weekly
I'm not sure if they do this every happy hour, but when I stumbled in they had $2 mohitos! Of course they also have Seattle's most extensive rum menu. (They have also had more than their share of major league ballplayers drop in.) Viva Puerto Rico!
2320 NW Market St., Seattle, WA 98107 - (206) 789-0516
laislaseattle.com - facebook - seattle times - the stranger - yelp - citysearch - seattle weekly
#979 -Hudson, Seattle - 1/20/2010
This is a cool little place with good cocktails and very good food (I had the sliders and they were excellent). I'll definitely be coming back, for breakfast as well as the cocktails and dinner. It's located in the Georgetown area under a big haunted house sign that's been up for two years and which I personally hope is up for another 50.
5000 East Marginal Way S., Seattle, WA 98134 - (206) 767-4777
hudsonseattle.com - seattle weekly - seattle weekly 2 - seattle times - yelp
5000 East Marginal Way S., Seattle, WA 98134 - (206) 767-4777
hudsonseattle.com - seattle weekly - seattle weekly 2 - seattle times - yelp
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