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Bars and Taverns

  • Food

    February 29, 2012

    The Demise of Free Bar Snacks

    Tight margins have house nuts on the brink of extinction.

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2012

    There's No Such Thing as Free Pretzels

    Craft cocktail bars tend to be very faithful to pre-Prohibition standards, from their glassware to their bartenders' facial hair. But the practice of treating patrons to free food along with their fancy drinks has vanished. During the late 19th century, the free lunch represented a rare point of ag ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 21, 2011

    New Year's at Joe's

    Craft cocktail bars tend to be very faithful to pre-Prohibition standards, from their glassware to their bartenders' facial hair. But the practice of treating patrons to free food along with their fancy drinks has vanished. During the late 19th century, the free lunch represented a rare point of ag ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2011

    Seattle's Best Dive Bars Guide Goes Mobile

    ​Most dive-bar denizens have no need for a guide to navigate a city's drinking dens; they've got their favorite, and they're sticking to it. But for interlopers who occasionally seek a dark, dirt-cheap and possibly dingy place to throw back a few drinks, it's helpful to know where to go. Seatt ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 1, 2010

    Seattle Weekly's Hot Cocktails

    ​Most dive-bar denizens have no need for a guide to navigate a city's drinking dens; they've got their favorite, and they're sticking to it. But for interlopers who occasionally seek a dark, dirt-cheap and possibly dingy place to throw back a few drinks, it's helpful to know where to go. Seatt ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 27, 2010

    Stew and the Negro Problem

    ​Most dive-bar denizens have no need for a guide to navigate a city's drinking dens; they've got their favorite, and they're sticking to it. But for interlopers who occasionally seek a dark, dirt-cheap and possibly dingy place to throw back a few drinks, it's helpful to know where to go. Seatt ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 6, 2010

    The Moondoggies

    ​Most dive-bar denizens have no need for a guide to navigate a city's drinking dens; they've got their favorite, and they're sticking to it. But for interlopers who occasionally seek a dark, dirt-cheap and possibly dingy place to throw back a few drinks, it's helpful to know where to go. Seatt ... More >>

  • Diversions

    September 1, 2010

    A Deal-Breaker of a Bachelor Party?

    ​Most dive-bar denizens have no need for a guide to navigate a city's drinking dens; they've got their favorite, and they're sticking to it. But for interlopers who occasionally seek a dark, dirt-cheap and possibly dingy place to throw back a few drinks, it's helpful to know where to go. Seatt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2010

    Will Washington Drop the Booze Business?

    Leaving a location near you?​Most of Washington's bar owners, beverage distributors and state union activists don't yet know Charla Neuman. In a few weeks, there's a pretty good chance they will. Neuman, a public relations consultant, is helping to organize one of what could be handful of bal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2009

    Tom Carr and the Blue Moon's Happiest Hour

    ​Blue Moon owner Gus Hellthaler says he's a reasonable man. That's why lame-duck Seattle City Attorney Tom Carr is welcome at the Moon's Jan. 4, all-day, happy hour to celebrate Carr's last day in office. "I'd be happy to serve him," Hellthaler says, "if he behaves himself." It is Carr's be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2009

    Day 9: A Dive Bar Advent Calendar - Moon Temple

    ​Our tribute to the holiday services provided by Seattle's Best Dive Bars continues with the Moon Temple (2108 N. 45th St.). If you've never lived or hung out in the Wallingford area, you might not understand the persistence of this plain Jane--and practically always empty--Chinese restaurant. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2009

    Day 7: A Dive Bar Advent Calendar - Old 5th Avenue Tavern

    ​Our tribute to the holiday services provided by Seattle's Best Dive Bars continues with the Old 5th Avenue Tavern (8507 5th Ave NE). The most successful dive bars appeal to the old dogs without excluding a younger crowd. In the Seely family, the Old 5th Avenue Tavern gets a gold star in this ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2009

    Dive Bars: Mostly Good, Rarely Bad, But Sometimes Ugly

    The Annex is a friendly non-neighborhood bar (unless you count a humongous airstrip and warehouses as neighbors) located near Randy's Diner and Boeing Field on Marginal Way, just to the south of the Seattle city limit. It serves extremely stiff drinks to one of the most genuinely diverse clienteles ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2009

    Bon Voyage, C.C.

    C.C. Attle's, a mantastic bar on Madison which serves a stiffer-than-a-hard-on drink called a "gayhound," isn't long for this world, reports the P-I. CC's is among the 100-plus bars featured in my best-selling (still #15 at Elliott Bay!) debut novel, Seattle's Best Dive Bars: Drinking & Diving in th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2009

    Seely's Book Displaced on Bestseller List by Misanthropic Tasmanian Vegetable Gardener

    As we noted in a post last night, Mike Seely's softcover debut, Seattle's Best Dive Bars, recently cracked the Northwest bestseller list. Seely's book was #10 among nonfiction paperbacks for the week ending May 24, according to sales reports from indie booksellers. But what a difference a week mak ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2009

    Blogwatch: A Moment With Seely, KGC, Food Philosophy

    Serious Eats has a great piece by Leslie Kelly about Mike Seely's book, Seattle's Best Dive Bars: Drinking & Diving in the Emerald City. The Surly Gourmand has a review of Oprah's Craptastic KFC, excuse me, KGC. (Yes, I know I'm encouraging him.) What Jeff Houck Believes: When the side-splitting ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2009

    Mike Seely, Karaoke Happy Hour, Sunset Tavern

    Join our managing editor, Mike Seely, for a book signing and happy hour at Ballard's Sunset Tavern this Friday celebrating his awesome new book, Seattle's Best Dive Bars: Drinking & Diving in the Emerald City (Ig Publishing, $12.95). Every section of prose seems to capture a little bit of its sub ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2009

    Dive Bar Discussion on TV Tonight

    Normally, when I hunker down at Stan Emert's round table at SCAN-TV's Oak Tree-area studios, it's to discuss civic matters with the P-I's Joel Connelly. But tonight, I'll be appearing live on Emert's "Public Exposure" program to talk about my debut novel, Seattle's Best Dive Bars: Drinking & Diving ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2009

    My Dive Bar Book Will Get You Laid

    Particularly if you were using it to woo a young lady in skirt and heels at Golden City on April 20. If anyone else is interested in using something other than an interest in Camus to scare up tail, Seattle's Best Dive Bars: Drinking & Diving in the Emerald City can be purchased online or at booksto ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 22, 2009

    Mike Seely

    Particularly if you were using it to woo a young lady in skirt and heels at Golden City on April 20. If anyone else is interested in using something other than an interest in Camus to scare up tail, Seattle's Best Dive Bars: Drinking & Diving in the Emerald City can be purchased online or at booksto ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2009

    Rose Garden Sells Its Last Crack Vial

    The infamous Rose Garden has officially closed in the wake of an SPD sting that resulted in multiple drug purchases at the seedy Lake City bar, which ranked a lofty third on our list of Seattle's 10 most intimidating dive bars, and will join the ranks of the Ghosts of Dive Bars Past should there eve ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 8, 2009

    Mike Seely

    The infamous Rose Garden has officially closed in the wake of an SPD sting that resulted in multiple drug purchases at the seedy Lake City bar, which ranked a lofty third on our list of Seattle's 10 most intimidating dive bars, and will join the ranks of the Ghosts of Dive Bars Past should there eve ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2009

    Seely, Harrop, Vandy to Discuss Dive Bars on KEXP Tonight

    I'll be making an appearance on KEXP's "Roadhouse" program tonight during the 7 o'clock hour to discuss my new book , dive bars in general, and the music that loves them. Joining me will be area barfly/ace DJ Kerri Harrop (aka Cherry Canoe) and, of course, the show's host, Greg Vandy (pictured abov ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2009

    How I Learned to Stop Pouting and Love the Revamped Maharaja

    Shortly after the 1st of the year, I walked into the lounge at Maharaja in the West Seattle Junction and realized it was a dive no more. Hence, it has been relegated to the "Ghosts of Dive Bars Past" section of my upcoming book, Seattle's Best Dive Bars: Drinking & Diving in the Emerald City, to be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2009

    West Seattle's Maharaja a Dive Bar No More

    I was planning on including the Maharaja in my upcoming book on Seattle dive bars, but when 'Lil Scoop and I walked in the other day to take photos for said book, we were shocked to find that what once was a dark drinking den is now an opulent new playground for the best bartender in town, Don Bog ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2009

    It's Not Easy Being Gay

    It's no news flash that homosexuals are persecuted the world over. But it is sadly ironic that on the same day that a local couple is charged with asylum fraud for instructing straight applicants to claim they were persecuted for being gay in their homeland to facilitate entry into our "gay-friendly ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2008

    My Neighbor's Review Of Outside Lands Music Fest

    It's no news flash that homosexuals are persecuted the world over. But it is sadly ironic that on the same day that a local couple is charged with asylum fraud for instructing straight applicants to claim they were persecuted for being gay in their homeland to facilitate entry into our "gay-friendly ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2008

    Comments of the Week: Ex-Cons and the Lunatic

    It's no news flash that homosexuals are persecuted the world over. But it is sadly ironic that on the same day that a local couple is charged with asylum fraud for instructing straight applicants to claim they were persecuted for being gay in their homeland to facilitate entry into our "gay-friendly ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 16, 2008

    Cyrus Chestnut Trio

    Monday, January 21

  • News

    March 28, 2007

    Bad Apple Pucker

    As if the mayor's nightlife proposals weren't enough for bar owners to cope with, Olympia's looking to screw up the fun for everyone.

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2007

    Licensing the Nightlife

    As if the mayor's nightlife proposals weren't enough for bar owners to cope with, Olympia's looking to screw up the fun for everyone.

  • Diversions

    October 26, 2005

    Play It Again, Sams

    A week's worth of ivory tickling, tonic, and gin.

  • Diversions

    December 18, 2002

    Dirty Bird

    A week's worth of ivory tickling, tonic, and gin.

  • News

    October 24, 2001

    Queer, beer, and used to it

    Going to gay bars—because I have to.

  • News

    June 27, 2001

    Bored to death

    Going to gay bars—because I have to.

  • Music

    December 20, 2000

    What's In and What's Out for 2001

    Going to gay bars—because I have to.

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