BTP’s Five Essential Seattle Bars
I called Seattle home for over a decade and whenever I return it's hard not to think about moving back. With steady access to some of the best bars and…
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The Best Places to Drink Wine in Seattle
If you're heading to Seattle in search of a good bottle of wine, don’t expect the density of New York, the foodie bloodsport of San Francisco or the quaintness of Portland.…
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The Best Dive Bars in Seattle
It's important to have a few oases where nobody knows your name—anonymous, but spirited dives where you can pound a beer and be on your way (or sit stagnant for the next…
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Pacific Inn Pub
The Pac Inn is an endangered dive bar in Fremont Stone Way, a street that acts as the vestigial industrial barrier between breakneck condo growth and the dry docks and metal fabricators…
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The White Horse Trading Co.
The White Horse isn't exactly a dive bar. This tiny kiosk of sorts is located in an alleyway within Pike Place Market—a train wreck of tourists and screeching minors—offering a much-needed…
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The 9lb Hammer
This working-class Georgetown bar is the kind of place that a sitcom might use in an episode that seeks to illustrate how the dad is still a badass or a reality show wherein college kids…
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The People’s Pub
The People's Pub specializes in traditional Swabian pub food (think spätzle, maultasche and pork 15 ways) and board games. It has long been an old Ballard destination for its selection of…
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Fort St. George
Fort St. George is a curious Japanese restaurant hidden above a vintage video game store in a multi-use building. The food is cheap, and not necessarily Japanese (unreasonable portions of spaghetti…
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The Chelan Café’s Ebb Tide Room
Founded in 1938, the Chelan Café still looks like the sort of place that Richie Cunningham could walk into at any moment and order a milkshake. But the bar in Chelan's…
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Montana
Montana is a nouveau dive bar, meaning that it did not fall from grace to become a dive—it was born this way. Birthed by Rachel's Ginger Beer—Seattle’s farmers market ginger…
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