Justin Dylan RenneyHopefully whoever buys the Rimrock won’t fuck with the lounge.If you think you’ve heard the story of Seattle’s best dive bar, the Rimrock Steakhouse, being put up for sale before, it’s because you have. So incensed was owner Connie Dunn at the passage of the indoor smoking ban, that she quietly put the bar on the market–quiet as a whisper, it turns out, as Dunn’s efforts to sell the bar back then were, by her own admission, half-hearted at best. But now the former Wedgwood Broiler cocktail waitress says, “I’m tired and think it’s time to retire.” So her restaurant-lounge-cock rock mecca is really on the market this time.Dunn says she’d prefer to find an owner who’s committed to preserving the Rimrock’s rough-hewn charm, although she stopped well short of declaring that an absolute. Whatevs: Keeping the Stirrup Room (the bar’s low-celiinged lounge) precisely intact is a must; besides, legendary house drummer Fred Holzman’s got to find a way to keep mainlining Rumple Minze between Zeppelin covers.
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