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Oliver’s Lounge Marks 40 Years of Cocktails and Culture

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Oliver’s Lounge Marks 40 Years of Cocktails and Culture

For four decades, the downtown bar has had a window to a city in flux.

Vintage wine from the cellars of Cojuşna winery in Moldova. Photo by Guttorm Flatabo/Flickr

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The Bar Code: Aging Wine Gracefully

How to use that time that is just going to pass anyway to do something different with your…

The Bar Code: Get Rid of All That Glassware

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The Bar Code: Get Rid of All That Glassware

What you drink out of matters, but not that much.

The Bar Code: The Art of Saying “No”

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The Bar Code: The Art of Saying “No”

The model of service most servers and bartenders are taught treats “no” as a last resort. But sometimes…

The Bar Code: Has Seattle Reached Peak Craft Cocktail?

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The Bar Code: Has Seattle Reached Peak Craft Cocktail?

I think we’ve passed the craft-cocktail event horizon; in all honesty, it probably happened a few years ago.…

Workers on lunch break in South Lake Union.

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The Bar Code: How to Attract the Tech Worker

Picture, if you will, the latest local tech hire. Freshly arrived in Seattle, equipped with ID badge and…