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If you hate cosmos as much as we do, it’s your duty

Published 7:00 am Monday, September 24, 2012

The Tug Tavern's clientele in West Seattle remains largely a mirror of the working-class South Delridge neighborhood it calls home.
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The Tug Tavern's clientele in West Seattle remains largely a mirror of the working-class South Delridge neighborhood it calls home.
The Tug Tavern's clientele in West Seattle remains largely a mirror of the working-class South Delridge neighborhood it calls home.
Eastlake Zoo: With its virtually windowless exterior and beastly name, the Eastlake Zoo could be easily mistaken for a clandestine gay bar back when gay bars were considered taboo.
T-Bird Tavern: Crown Hill's T-Bird Tavern shares a wall with the neighboring Sands strip club. ItaE™s the best informal good neighbor agreement that can be found in the city, considering strip joints in Seattle canaE™t serve alcohol.
VanaE™s 105 Tavern: WhataE™s most striking about VanaE™s is how bright it is inside, a beacon of light in a relatively hardscrabble, poorly illuminated North Seattle neighborhood.
Northlake Tavern serves beer and pizza: no booze, no kids, though they could have one or the other.
Columbia City Alehouse has become a popular after-hours meeting place for politicians and community leaders, with way healthier than average pub fare.
Wildwood Tavern: With its #8 Dale Earnhardt pennants flapping in the wind above a gravel parking lot, it looks and feels like a rural Southern Illinois roadhouse aE“ at least until one sits down at the bar on a midweek afternoon.
The Red Onion: Of all the neighborhoods to boast two throwback taverns, hyper-yuppified Madison Park might be the unlikeliest.
Poggie Tavern: Sticking out like a sore thumb amidst an onslaught of retail family-friendliness, the JunctionaE™s Poggie Tavern is nonetheless a well-kempt stalwart: clean, well-lit, with pull tabs galore, frequent live music nights, and an affable bartender in an Olde English cap.
The Shanty: One of the weird things about places like the Shanty is their countercultural fondness for network TV. This might explain why, on a recent Wednesday evening, the tavernaE™s lone set was devoted to That 70aE™s Show reruns.

If you hate cosmos as much as we do, it’s your duty to keep these pint-pushers afloat. Read Mike Seely’s “Endangered Taverns” feature here.Published on October 24, 2007

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