Elephant & Castle
The Elephant & Castle's interior is spacious and comfortable, and is home to a well-stocked bar and a subterranean private room for big parties. Avoid Thursday…
1415 Fifth Ave
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-624-9977
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-624-9977
Café Frieda
This cafe inside the Frye Art Museum features scratch-made sandwiches, salads, and seasonal soups, in addition to coffee from Caffe Vita, pastries from Macrina…
704 Terry Ave
First Hill
206-432-8210
First Hill
206-432-8210
Saint John's Bar and Eatery
Saint John’s Bar and Eatery—on Capitol Hill, where the Rosebud used to be—is brought to you by Val Kiossovski (who’s in Kultur Shock), Billy Gould (Faith No Mo…
719 E Pike St
Seattle
206-245-1390
Seattle
206-245-1390
Japonessa Sushi Cocina
The restaurant that replaced Union downtown: Japonessa Sushi Cocina. The head chef: Billy Beach, formerly of Umi Sake House and Kushibar (the owner also runs i…
1400 First Ave
Pike Place Market
206-971-7979
Pike Place Market
206-971-7979
Temporarily Closed
Little Maria's Pizza
Open since 2016, Little Maria's Pizza is without a doubt one of the best places to get hot, cheap, delicious food while also rubbing elbows with some of the mo…
1809 Minor Avenue #101
Belltown
206-467-4988
Belltown
206-467-4988
Comet Tavern
The Comet’s done a fine job of getting people drunk since 1948. More recently—for a long time—it was a place to see hearing-impairing punk bands, get beer spil…
922 E Pike St
Seattle
206-322-9272
Seattle
206-322-9272
Athenian Seafood Restaurant and Bar
The food is nothing to write home about, but it's worth shoving your way through the Pike Place Market tourists gawping at fish to get to the old-school, unfan…
1517 Pike Pl
Pike Place Market
206-624-7166
Pike Place Market
206-624-7166
Capitol Cider
Capitol Cider is a handsome, old-fashionedy pub serving lots of kinds of hard cider—30 on tap—along with the usual drinky suspects, plus non-holier-than-thou g…
818 E Pike St
Capitol Hill
206-397-3564
Capitol Hill
206-397-3564
Old Stove Brewing Co.
Old Stove, located in the heart of Pike Place Market, holds sixteen taps of beer, all of them made on site, just below the taproom floor. While beer is the foc…
1525 First Avenue
Pike Place Market
829-4900
Pike Place Market
829-4900
Owl N' Thistle Irish Pub
The Owl N’ Thistle is a dark and cozy, family-owned Irish pub with lovely brick walls, antique multipane windows, and shelves filled with elegant-looking books…
808 Post Ave
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-621-7777
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-621-7777
1425 10th Ave
First Hill
First Hill
Smith Tower
Observe the observation deck on the 35th floor of the Smith Tower, once the tallest structure west of the Mississippi River. (PRO TIP: It is rumored that the p…
506 Second Ave
Pioneer Square
Pioneer Square
Lost Lake Cafe & Lounge
Capitol Hill finally has a place to eat that is open all day and all night (besides the iconic but less-than-delicious IHOP). This 24-hour diner in the former …
1505 10th Ave
Capitol Hill
206-323-5678
Capitol Hill
206-323-5678
Big Mario's New York Style Pizza
Big Mario’s pizza is good: The crust is thin but not floppy, except at the very tip; the sauce is almost salty, almost sweet, and sparingly applied. And now Bi…
1009 E Pike St
Capitol Hill
206-922-3875
Capitol Hill
206-922-3875
The Tin Table
The Tin Table is upstairs in the Oddfellows Building at Pine and 10th, in a dim, private-feeling space. The menu has a little bit of everything: pasta, fish ta…
915 E Pine St, Second Floor
Seattle
206-320-8458
Seattle
206-320-8458
Revolver Bar
Revolver—located in the space previously occupied by Dinette and owned by Electrokitty Recording Studio honcho Gary Reynolds—has about a billion records on the…
1514 E Olive Way
Seattle
206-860-7000
Seattle
206-860-7000
A Pizza Mart
Divey, late-night hangout with pizza and a full bar.
1427 11th Ave
Seattle
206-903-8500
Seattle
206-903-8500
Pony
The gays know how to have fun: They know it, you know it, I know it, and Pony is more fun per inch than anywhere in town, if not the world.
1221 E Madison St
Capitol Hill
206-324-2854
Capitol Hill
206-324-2854
Yeti Bar at Annapurna Cafe
Two years ago, the understated (and fabulous) Annapurna Cafe added a boozier street-level counterpart to its subterranean curry den. Situated next to the Capit…
1833 Broadway
Seattle
206-320-7770
Seattle
206-320-7770