The Bad Juju Lounge, late of Capitol Hill -- it was originally located in the spaces now occupied by Purr Cocktail Lounge and Moe Bar -- has re-opened in a new Belltown location. That's right: this is location number three. Once more into the batcave, dear friends!
By Geoff Carter | June 16, 2008
In an era when most Seattle bars have to go high-concept and high-octane to get noticed -- gourmet appetizers, themed specialty cocktails -- Stepping Stone's low-key approach is refreshing. You don't get that trying-too-hard vibe.
By Geoff Carter | June 5, 2008
The Saint has nearly 90 individual bottles of tequila waiting for you right now.You could sample a different tequila every day for almost 12 weeks solid, secure in the knowledge that if one of those bottles should happen to fall there would remain many, many fine bottles of tequila on The Saint's wall.
By Geoff Carter | April 29, 2008
In the course of my work I am introduced to many fine adults, and many fine adult beverages. Tini Bigs' annual cocktail tasting, hosted by the bar's owners and resident bon vivants Keith Robbins and Patrick Haight, brings the best of both. This year's tasting found me and several other local media peeps enthusiastic and thirsty. So. Very. Thirsty.
By Geoff Carter | March 24, 2008
If you want to get the blues, you've got to get low. If you want to find Highway 99 Blues Club, you've got to head downtown (it's got "down" right there in the name) to Pike Place Market and take the more than 150 steps to the bottom of the "hillclimb." The club entrance is at the bottom of another set of stairs -- maybe seven or eight of them -- and in the long shadow of the viaduct. By the time you walk through the joint's front door you're at sea level, or just below it -- as low as you can get without a shovel, or scuba tanks.
By Geoff Carter | March 5, 2008
Ballard's Tigertail Bar & Restaurant sits on an island of its own -- the same obscure, partially residential strip of Northwest 65th Street that's home to the Tin Hat and Molly Maguire's -- and like that Thai bar, it felt like home from the minute I walked in the door. It may be appointed in Asian swank -- teakwood barstools, purple curtains, a bamboo-finish bar top, soft golden lighting -- but it's a Seattleite through and through.
By Geoff Carter | January 11, 2008
