Seattle
This microbrewery, in keeping with current trends, sells its wares via an attached tasting room rather than a full-blown pub. Not only is the beer divine …
Must-see nightlife in Washington
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Seattle
Even if Unicorn's circus theme doesn't exactly tickle your fancy, its commitment to the spectacle makes it worth a visit. Cocktails like the Cereal Killer…
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Seattle
This fabulous neighborhood coffee bar in Fremont prefers to carefully select other people’s beans rather than roast its own, but chooses them with the…
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Seattle
Pony (in a repurposed car garage from the 1930s) is the type of gay bar that has reached a level of popularity where most denizens of Seattle's LGBTIQ+…
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Belltown & Seattle Center
Rendezvous is one of Belltown's oldest heirlooms, starting life in 1927 as a speakeasy and a screening room for early Hollywood talkies. Now on its…
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Seattle
Purveyors of a damned fine cup o' coffee since 2000, Victrola, to its credit, has clung to its grassroots, maintaining only four cafes. You can ponder how…
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Downtown, Pike Place & Waterfront
If it's not enough that this cozy coffee nook serves some of the best espresso shots in the city, Ancient Grounds also doubles as a showroom for a well…
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Bellingham
This beautiful space, newly opened by one of Bellingham's best breweries in a 1920s Depot building, will make you think you've stepped into an English…
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Seattle
Loved in equal measure for its no-nonsense walk-up stand on Broadway and this cafe (a large retro place with a beautiful Streamline Moderne counter),…
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Ballard & Discovery Park
Microbreweries too large for you? Move down a notch to a nano-brewery. The menu of nine ever-changing brews is impossible to predict; just bank on it…
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Queen Anne & Lake Union
Anyone for a café cubano? This cheerful Queen Anne cafe specializes in Cuban-style coffee – ie strong, short, black and loaded with sugar. Take a cue from…
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Downtown, Pike Place & Waterfront
One of the best Irish pubs in the city, the dark, multiroomed Owl & Thistle is located slap-bang downtown but misses most of the tourist traffic because…
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Downtown, Pike Place & Waterfront
Cementing downtown’s reputation as a fount of good hotel bars is the Bookstore, encased in the front window of the Alexis Hotel, which mixes books stacked…
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Seattle
A legendary counterculture dive that first opened in 1934 to celebrate the repeal of Prohibition, Blue Moon makes much of its former literary patrons –…
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Central Washington
Here you can drink craft beer in the hops fields it came from. The taproom is in a big, barn-like building with plenty of seating outside, where the kids…
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Starbucks Reserve Roastery & Tasting Room
Seattle
This high church to the joys of coffee drinking is the antithesis of everything Starbucks-y that has gone before. It's Starbuck's attempt at going back to…
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Downtown, Pike Place & Waterfront
If you're writing a research project on Seattle's culinary history, you'll need to reserve a chapter for the Zig Zag Café. This is the bar that…
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Downtown, Pike Place & Waterfront
There are so many coffee bars in Seattle that it’s sometimes hard to see the forest for the trees, unless it’s the kind of wood that adorns the curved bar…
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Downtown, Pike Place & Waterfront
Hidden down Post Alley opposite the beautifully disgusting 'gum wall,' the Alibi feels like an old speakeasy or perhaps the perfect place to hide from the…
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Downtown, Pike Place & Waterfront
A fruitful marriage of style and substance, Radiator Whiskey, on the top floor of the Pike Place Market, has exactly the amount of rustic design you'd…
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Belltown & Seattle Center
The brainchild of former experimental brewer at Elysian Brewing, Steve Luke, Cloudburst Brewing became an instant Seattle favorite. Replicating the…
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Seattle
The beer at the promenade-adjacent Alki Beach location of this popular microbrewery is fantastic, but it's the experience of sitting on one of the many…
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Seattle
Elysian Brewing’s Immortal IPA personifies the strong, bitter ‘hop-forward’ beers that have become part of craft-beer folklore in the Pacific Northwest…
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Ballard & Discovery Park
Almost qualifying as a travel bookstore as well as a bar, Noble Fir’s highly curated, hops-heavy beer list might fill you with enough liquid courage to…
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Seattle
Homey, rustic, cozy, charming and classic all at once, Ferdinand serves locally sourced, Asian-inspired food cooked by fire and paired with a carefully…
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San Juan Islands
The location just off Mt Baker Rd near the airport makes this tiny brewery hard to find, but the locals sure know it's there – this is the place to go to…
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Spokane
As much a well-curated gift shop as a coffeehouse, this bookish, bright and convivial cafe serves an amazing selection of loose teas and perfect coffee…
Queen Anne & Lake Union
A newer brewery with a handful of years under its belt, Holy Mountain has developed a serious cult following. Focused on ales aged in oak barrels and an…
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Downtown, Pike Place & Waterfront
There’s nothing fancy about Pike Place Market's Athenian, but it’s a landmark and a bastion of unpretentious, frontier-era Seattle. Consider, as you sink…
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Seattle
Capitol Hill has lagged behind Fremont and Ballard beer-wise, but this encouragingly named brewery put froth back on the local pints when it opened in…
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Seattle
Rather than producing its own beer, Brouwer's stocks the brews of others – lots of them. Indeed, it, arguably, offers the finest beer selection in the…
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Seattle
Named for the 1832 law that legalized drinking in public bars and saloons, Tavern Law is one of Seattle's most sought-after high-end cocktail bars (they…
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Central Washington
Visit this industrial-style cider bar right next to the production facility. You can taste the dozen or so delicious varieties, which tend toward the dry…
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Downtown, Pike Place & Waterfront
Like other modern rooftop bars in major American cities, the Nest is overpriced and usually crowded with cliques of lawyers and PR executives. But the…
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Queen Anne & Lake Union
With this place, posing as a kind of German beer hall meets Wild West saloon, Tom Douglas has made his (inevitable) lunge into the world of pubs. Brave…
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Seattle
There’s a tug of loyalties with Stumptown, Portland’s coffee pioneers founded in 1999 by Duane Sorenson, who originally hails from Puyallup near Seattle…
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Queen Anne & Lake Union
Half of the long, skinny room at Mecca Café is a ketchup-on-the-table diner, but all the fun happens on the other side, where decades worth of beer mat…
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Seattle
The back patio here is an excellent place to observe the nocturnal habits of Hipsterus northwesticus. Linda’s is one of the few joints in town where you…
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Seattle
A bohemian beauty tucked away in the northern part of the U District, the Racer is an eclectic head-spinner full of crazy little details. It's known for…
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Spokane
Get in on Spokane's serious-cocktail scene (no, really!) at this speakeasy-style joint with a snug little bar in the basement. The building once belonged…
