The Top 50 Haunts

upshot: Like your living room, but with more strangers and less early Madonna.

Adam L. Weintraub

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Six Arms Tavern
300 E Pike, 223-1698
Mon-Thu, 11am-1am, Fri-Sat, 11am-2am, Sun noon-midnight
Lunch, dinner, snacks
$

Working its funky juju, Capitol Hill seems to have sucked all the corporate poisons out of this McMenamins export and left only the good stuff: tasty quaff, huge comfortable booths, and a welcoming vibe. Whether you're wearing gold lam頰ants and fishnet gloves, sporting tats and a skateboard, or showing off your cleanest T-shirt and jeans, it don't matter, as long as you want to eat, imbibe, and talk all friendly and peaceful-like. Books (look for Ally Sheedy's "poems"), folksy statues, Turkish rugs, and Sputnik-inspired sculpture are eclectic without being overly T.G.I. Fridays and somehow manage to make the cavernous space of this former garage feel cozy and intimate. The fries are yummy, cheap, and absorptive; Dylan's on the stereo. Did we mention how comfy the booths are? Plus, the drunker you get, the bigger the smile on the vat o' brew by the bathrooms.

upshot: A friendly neighborhood tavern.—D.S.

Wild Rose
1021 E Pike, 324-9210
Mon 3pm-midnight, Tue-Wed 3pm-1am, Thu noon-1am, Fri noon-2am, Sat-Sun 3pm-2am
Lunch, dinner
$$

With its no-frills tables, chairs, and neon beer signs serving as decoration, the Wild Rose distinguishes itself from other nondescript watering holes with its mostly female clientele. Walk by any evening of the week, and you'll see women huddled around talking shop, softball, or gossiping about bad dates ("She did what?!"). Boys are welcome, but understandably, only a few venture in. Extra diversion is provided by two pool tables and a jukebox filled with female voices—Indigo Girls, Melissa Etheridge, Sinead O'Connor, and Lilith Fair compilations.

upshot: Tomboy central.—S.I.