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
There are several things you should allow yourself to do during this cold and soggy holiday month. You should allow yourself a weight gain of three to five pounds. You should wear Bill Cosby-style sweaters and nothing else. (Okay, put on some socks. And pants. Jeez.) And above all, no matter how resolute a gin, bourbon or beer drinker you may be, you should put the hardcore stuff aside and have one of the sweet (and, in many cases, hot) holiday cocktails that are currently being mixed at some of your favorite local bars and restaurants.
By Geoff Carter | December 11, 2007
Located on a section of East Madison Street that most people simply pass through on their way to Madison Park or up to Capitol Hill, the Bottleneck Lounge is something of a rarity: It's a fancy-pants lounge that could hold its own against the spendy upscale lounges of downtown, while steadfastly maintaining a cozy neighborhood vibe. All the class goes into the glass -- where it belongs.
By Geoff Carter | October 19, 2007
I work within a few steps of the soon-to-debut South Lake Union Trolley ... er, Streetcar. Like so many who work in the Cascade ... oops, I mean South Lake Union area, I will soon be able to hop the streetcar at lunchtime and dine at the upper-crust establishments in Westlake Center: They have a McDonald's and a Sbarro.
By Geoff Carter | October 16, 2007
South Lake Union's new Venik Lounge has a wine list consisting of less than a dozen bottles. They have nine different kinds of beer -- with just three of them on tap -- and a handful of champagnes, sparkling waters and sodas. And that's fine, because if you come to Venik -- a place that makes some of the best vodka infusions you've had -- and order a bottle of Miller, you're completely missing the point of the place. It's akin to going to a steakhouse for the bread.
By Geoff Carter | September 24, 2007
The television network TBS used to air a series called "Movies for Guys Who Like Movies." In that same spirit, Queen Anne now has a Bar for Guys Who Like Bars.
By Cody Ellerd | September 17, 2007
The sporting life rises on Lower Queen Anne--> By Geoff Carter NWsource staff GEOFF CARTER Pictured are manager Topher Mesloh (walking); customers, from left: Brian Aytch, Mike Beebe; and bartender Carol Walker.--> At a recent First Thursday gallery opening,...
By Geoff Carter | September 17, 2007
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