Seattle Bars and Clubs - Seattle Neighborhood Bars

With one of the best beer selections of any bar in Seattle, the 74th Street Ale House caters to a very loyal, packed house every night. You're likely to find local denizens of the neighborhood commanding the barstools and booths sipping on local microbrews and unique imports, and the jovial atmosphere at this local Seattle bar makes even newbies feel right at home. Also, the 74th Street Ale House offers up some excellent pub grub, but not the greasy, fat laden choices that you're thinking of. All of their food is made fresh to order with selections ranging from soups and salads to sandwiches and pastas along with plenty of vegetarian options. Seattle's 74th Street Ale House starts getting quite crowded around 7pm, so pop in early for food then stay for the beer.

Even if it's your first visit to the Admiral Pub, a completely laid back Seattle neighborhood bar, you'll instantly feel like a regular. The Admiral Pub is so come as you are that it's more like catching the game and drinking some beers at your buddies house than being at a busy local bar, which you should definitely take as a five-star recommendation. Also, this local Seattle bar serves its pub grub all night long, so after a few rounds with the pool tables or video games and your beer count is in the double digits, you can grab some booze soaking food and pretend that you're sober.

A decidedly neighborhood centric crowd flocks to the Attic Alehouse and Eatery, a Seattle bar known for its good beer selection and homey grub that will remind you of your mom's kitchen. There's always a game on the strategically placed TVs and a down home affable attitude that hasn't changed in over 50 years which has kept the Attic Alehouse and Eatery in the hearts, stomachs and livers of Seattle.

The food at the Baranof Restaurant is nothing to write home about, but the dimly lit back bar of this Seattle neighborhood tavern, with its stiff drinks and strange cast of regulars, certainly is. The Baranof Restaurant is steeped in nautical décor, from the dining area to the bar, and after a few potent cocktails you'll probably feel as though you've got to retrain your sea legs. Also, this Seattle neighborhood bar has weekend entertainment in the form of an ultra cheesy piano player that just adds another layer to the Baranof's already established drinking charm.

The grand selection of beers at the Barking Dog Alehouse in Seattle should have you frothing just like this neighborhood bar's moniker. The Barking Dog Alehouse offers an extensive selection of domestics and imports for the discerning beer drinker on their ever-changing list and the staff is always abreast of what they are offering. The food at this Seattle neighborhood bar could use some improvement, but the beers at the Barking Dog Alehouse will probably make you forget any shortcomings pretty quickly.

With a revolving slate of their best tap brews dependent on the season, Big Time Brewery and Alehouse has been a Seattle neighborhood bar institution, packed with eager University of Washington beer swillers, for years. In fact the entirety of the U Dub clan—from the student body to the profs—drink and eat at Big Time Brewery and while the fare is average at best, it's decidedly priced and prepared for the student budget and palate. But, heck, the showstopper at this Seattle brewery, like all breweries, is the beer, that is also available in handy sizes to go for at home consumption.

Café Metropolitan is an inviting Seattle neighborhood bar and restaurant that plays out like a Parisian café replete with European style, charm and sensibilities. Decidedly laid back and casual, Café Metropolitan is packing in lovers of imported beer and good wine that are looking for a hip place to hang with friends while noshing on some eclectic food offerings. As an added bonus to being able to visit Europe from the comfort of your seat at this local Seattle bar, Café Metropolitan hosts wine tastings every Wednesday and they serve their cuisine right up until closing time.

Columbia City Ale House is a true Seattle neighborhood bar that features excellent food and a beer selection that rivals any other pub around. The food at Columbia City Ale House is a huge draw because it's all made fresh to order so you won't find your typical heart clogging, four napkin greasy fare at this local bar. The extensive—a word that really doesn't do their selection justice—bottled and tap beer list has stuff that we thought only existed in late night "I wish" beer fantasies. Seriously, this Seattle bar is one of the most amicable establishments in town and a great way to while away the hours.

The Comet Tavern is probably the most comfortable neighborhood dive bar in Seattle where regulars from the bars inception in the late forties rub elbows with newbie drinkers cutting their proverbial teeth here. The service is always great at the Comet Tavern, the drinks are always stiff and the only foods available are the dive bar staples of nuts and chips. Even if you haven't been to Seattle in a while—heck, or never at all—if you're into just drinking in comfort, meeting good people and getting sauced while having a great time then you'll probably end up drinking your nights away at the Comet.

Even though the space at Dad Watson's, a Seattle neighborhood bar outpost of the venerable McMenamins Brewing empire, is large and open, this local bar has an intimate, family friendly atmosphere presenting the laid back comfort you want in your neighborhood watering hole. The other thing that you want, and something that Dad Watson's definitely provides, is excellent food and the burger is one of the best in Seattle especially when it's paired with any of their hearty brews. These elements combined make Dad Watson's a perennially packed Seattle bar that really couldn't do anything better.

Earl's On The Avenue has the notorious distinction out of all the bars in Seattle of serving the strongest drinks, which is why it's so incredibly crowded, not with just college students, but anyone who's into hard drinking. Seriously, as far as neighborhood dive bars in Seattle go, Earl's has to be in the top five if not number one. If you're a lightweight, you can always ask the bartender to pour it weak and maybe they'll oblige, but don't count on it. Every night and day, Earl's packs in the crowds and can get quite rowdy in a good way because the diverse mix of Seattle locals, students and professionals all treat Earl's like an amicable house party where there's booze and ice, but some addled hound forgot the mixers. Usually Earl's On The Avenue is the first stop of the night for Seattle clubbers looking to get a quick, cheap buzz before they're forced to pay top dollar for watered down cocktails—a word to the wise: if you consider yourself a well-seasoned boozer, the Long Island Ice Tea at this Seattle neighborhood bar will make you rethink that assumption.

Probably the oldest tenured bar in Seattle's Eastlake neighborhood, the Eastlake Zoo Tavern is an enduring favorite for locals because it hasn't changed one bit since that fateful day in 1974 when the doors where flung open and the animals rushed in. There's a plethora of games to soothe the savage beasties, as it were, with everything from pool and snooker to pinball and darts. But don't let the classification of beasties put you off from this Seattle neighborhood bar because the Eastlake Zoo Tavern is one of the most friendly places to grab a beer in and even newbies will mesh easily with the old timers and locals that crowd in here like a second home.

Cheap burritos and other Mexican favorites can be had with shots of tequila and beer at El Chupacabra cantina bar in Seattle. The jukebox is loud and rocking here which suits the young clientele just fine as they wolf down the average Mex fare while shooting pool and downing the way above average house margaritas. Everything at El Chupacabra, mind you, is budget priced and places where you can get one of the penultimate booze soaking foods while you are actually downing the booze, well not really a Seattle bar rarity, the burritos at El Chupacabra certainly are welcomed.

A family friendly Seattle restaurant and brewery by day and a hip little neighborhood bar at night, Elysian TangleTown—part of the Elysian Brewing Company—serves up 16 taps of their standard microbrews and rotating seasonal offerings, brewed in house, along with a full bar for mixed drink fans. The menu at Elysian TangleTown is way above your normal brewpub fare while still being comfortably rooted in that certain sure to please Seattle hominess. At night, the normally light and airy interior at Elysian gets a candlelit makeover so hip Seattle suburbanites have a cool neighborhood bar to kick back in.

A Seattle neighborhood bar that's seemingly been around forever, Fiddler's Inn not only offers up a goodly selection of microbrews for the beer crowd, but the owner also keeps a great vintage wine selection for those who worship the almighty grape. Also, this Seattle bar's scene dishes up local live music in the blues and folk veins, but with their basement acoustics it can get a tad loud so save your conversations for between sets. Fiddler's Inn also serves a decent menu of pizzas, salads and snacks so that the cast of neighborhood regulars doesn't have to trod off to grab a booze countering nosh.

Loads of neighborhood regulars pack this quirky Seattle bar for good drinks and a plethora of bar games to keep them interested when the booze ain't quite cuttin' the mustard. However, Goofy's isn't just home to wizened old regulars that grunt a greeting over their pull tabs, a younger hip crowd pops into this Seattle neighborhood bar on the weekends when their sick of boozing in overpriced establishments with cookie cutter clientele.

Hop Vine Pub is a thoroughly inviting local Seattle bar and live jazz club that also sports one of the best pub rooted menus around without succumbing to any deep fried gluttony. A decidedly more mature set gathers nightly at Hop Vine to dine on fresh pizzas and pastas or salads and paninni while downing a selection of microbrews mostly from local Seattle breweries with some other craft beers exclusively from the Pacific Northwest. On the weekends, live jazz musicians take to the smallish stage for an intimate live session, and catch the Hop Vine Pub on Mondays where the open mic night has totally taken off...and taken on a life of its own.

The Kort Haus is an enduring testament to the uncanny uniqueness of Seattle bars serving a variety of boozers, young and old, from the surrounding neighborhood friendly stiff drinks and the strangest array of burgers we've ever seen. Seriously, at Kort Haus they serve practically every kind of meat patty that is legal to kill, season, grill and throw on a bun, so if you've been craving an alligator, camel or yak burger then you've found a your new carnivore den. But, don't despair those of the vegetarian order because Kort Haus also has one of the most accommodating herbivore menus of any Seattle bar. Kort Haus is low key, always packed and the service couldn't be better.

The Latona Pub used to be sort of a dive, but has decided to clean up its act a little to transform into an inviting Seattle neighborhood bar where the exclusively Pacific Northwest tap brew selection is rivaled only by Latona Pub's better than average pub food menu. Oh, you still get the usual neighborhood boozers that crowd in during all hours of the day and night keeping the spirit of a local watering hole, but now you're seeing a more gentrified Seattle crowd adorning the marble tables and crowding the bar in search of good food, drink and atmosphere.

More familiar than your 1984 Misfits tour shirt and about as worn, Linda's Tavern is a Seattle neighborhood bar hangout for the punk and tattooed set for heady drinks and home spun food against a backdrop of killer tunes. This hip, but wholly casual Seattle bar also has one of the best back patios around that starts getting packed early in the afternoon and usually stays that way until the unfortunate tolling of the last call bells. Local DJs, spinning solid rock and country to surf, punk and garage, keep Linda's Tavern rocking when the jukebox filled with all your dive bar favorites needs a breather and those in the know hipsters snack on grilled cheese sandwiches or the best meatloaf sandwich you've ever had and crowd this local Seattle bar on Sunday mornings for the best kept drunken brunch secret in town....okay, not so secret anymore.

With a chic, trendy look and a Seattle neighborhood bar attitude, the Lizzard Lounge is a great place on the Westside to down some good booze at below market rate prices while orally perusing their fine selection of drafts. Also, the service staff at the Lizzard Lounge is friendly, chatty and treat you as a long time regular even if this is your cherry popping visit; during the week it's mostly West Seattle locals bellying up to the bar, but the weekends see a heavy increase in patrons with steady decreases in age and clothing.

A kid friendly Seattle neighborhood bar with really good food, Madrona Eatery and Ale House has such a communal feel that you'd swear your drinking at a family reunion—but one where you actually like your family. This wholly casual Seattle bar is only open starting at 5pm and closing around 11pm, so don't expect any wild late night shenanigans at the Madrona, just expect a laid back restaurant and bar with genuinely friendly servers and patrons.

The Mecca Café is a Seattle dive bar institution due to its liver destroying, blast you outta the bar stool pours—served 6am to 2am—and its excellent greasy spoon diner fare all served to you at prices that don't hurt the wallet. The Mecca Café gets undeniably packed with a amalgamation of loyal neighborhood boozers from hipster to blue-collar tipping a few back and the ultra-narrow space sometimes makes this Seattle bar feel more cramped than it already is, but everything is so good at Mecca that you soon forget the confines. Also, the kitchen at the Mecca Café is open 24 hours so you can grab some booze soaking food and stumble it on home to catch a few Z's before you turn around and do it all again. If this little recipe for success sounds familiar it's because Mecca Café is the sister bar to another great Seattle dive bar, the Five Point.

Norm's Eatery and Ale House is a laid back little Seattle neighborhood bar that consistently does everything it set out to do extremely well. Norm's wanted to cater to the neighborhood regulars, chalk it up as done. They wanted to be family friendly while still getting in some boozy good times in; accomplished. This Seattle bar sought excellent food for a reasonable price—do we have to go on? Anyway you slice it, Norm's Eatery and Ale House is great, the drinks are poured with a generous hand, the scene is low key and the patrons that pack in are wholly diverse—heck, Norm's even lets your canine buddy enjoy their homey confines.

The Old Pequliar combines that distinct Irish bar charm with a Seattle neighborhood bar comfort creating an unavoidable draw that has snagged hordes of regulars. The tag line of the Old Pequliar is "you're a stranger here but once" and we're hard pressed to find a bar is Seattle or elsewhere that sticks to this adage better. You can come as you are and grab some authentic Irish fare or some more Americanized bar staples, all reasonably priced, with a few pints or cocktails to wash it all down. The Old Pequliar is a home away from home thanks to the amicable staff and owner, but the crowd doesn't just stop at regulars, hipsters and college kids also convene for some good times at this welcoming Seattle bar.

A great beer selection to compliment their better than average pub style fare are the hallmarks of Seattle's Old Town Alehouse where one can find some of the more obscure Washington breweries sitting comfortably on the taps next to the larger beer makers. This Seattle bar is open and airy with a bent towards a slightly more upscale atmosphere than a typical neighborhood watering hole. The crowds consist of beer aficionados and suburbanites that come for the amicable service and keep coming back for the aforementioned drink and grub.

Park Pub is a scrubbed up Seattle neighborhood bar that has a decent selection of microbrews to satisfy its local regulars and commuters. Also, the Park Pub sports an excellent pub rooted menu that offers mostly expected bar grub favorites, but does branch out into more ambitious fare to keep in with their suburban surroundings. The atmosphere at this Seattle bar is comfortable and conversational with bartenders usually greeting regulars by name and pouring their beer before they can even grab a stool at the Park Pub.

This little Seattle neighborhood bar has one of the most devoted followings because of the Pub at Pipers Creek commitment to under priced and high quality beer and food. Seriously, at the Pub you can choose from their extensive selection of local Washington microbrews and pair them with pub styled food stuffs and those in the know hit up this Seattle bar on Mondays when you can get two burgers for the price of one.

Seattle neighborhood bars just don't come any better than the Roanoke Park Place Tavern which is filled with memorabilia that you'd more likely find in your grandparents game room than in a bar. The selection of brews features something for everyone's tastes and the simple food is of the stick to your ribs variety that always seems to satisfy on rainy Seattle afternoons. A slew of regulars crowd around the bar and engage in amicable banter with the bartender or not so amicable banter with the TV and nights bring in a younger crowd that take to drinking with friends over fashion.

The sister bar to the well worn Comet Tavern, the Satellite Lounge takes the same approach to atmosphere, patrons, drinks and food of its sibling—meaning it's no frills and everything's good. This come as you are Seattle neighborhood bar sports eclectic local artwork on the walls and even though the seating arrangements are a little cramped, regulars most likely keep to themselves and don't intrude on your conversations. The drinks are poured with a decided heavy hand at the Satellite Lounge and the standard pub fare is well complimented by a variety of vegetarian options.

The Sloop Tavern is the epitome of the Seattle neighborhood bar in the Ballard district and still paying homage to Seattle's nautical proclivities. In fact many of the regulars who line up at the Sloop Tavern for cheap beer poured in large 32-ounce mugs are the blue-collar sort from the nearby shipyards and marinas. Also, the Sloop Tavern serves its friendly clientele some hearty pub fare and sports on the tube usually incite conversation and an amicable round of cheers.

A no-frills Seattle neighborhood bar, the Summit Place Public House sports 22 taps for the beer lovers and mixes up some stiff cocktails for their come as you are, comfort over coolness regulars. Patrons of the Summit Place Public House are also treated to a decent sandwich and sides bar menu that serves late to help counteract the aforementioned heavy libations. This Seattle bar is a popular hangout for those just wanting to relax with a beer, shoot some stick or try their luck on the vintage Galaga machine.

Teddy's Tavern is a plainly relaxed Seattle neighborhood bar catering to an over 30 crowd that enjoy their beer cheap without any pesky food getting in the way, their pool cheaper and classic rock blaring out of the jukebox. If you're into cool old-school motorcycles, cruise on down to Teddy's Tavern the first Wednesday of every month when the Vintage Motorcycle Enthusiasts hold their meeting and the streets are lined with classic Harleys, Nortons and Indians.

The Monkey is the quintessential neighborhood bar catering to thirsty Seattle locals that pop in for the cheap beer, booze and kicked back atmosphere. The killer jukebox at The Monkey keeps the crowds of twenty-somethings knockin' 'em back to the sounds of some great alt and indie rockers. Being near Seattle's U-District one would think that The Monkey would be like a little Greek brother, but blessedly there are plenty of other bars to grab the frats weekend bender attentions, not that this Seattle bar would turn them away, it's just that The Monkey isn't exactly a hook up joint—it's just a place to down some booze with friends.

The People's Pub is a low-key Seattle neighborhood bar and restaurant that specializes in traditional German fare with some American comfort food choices peppered in for those not into wiener schnitzel. The People's Pub has a full bar for the boozers, but, as it is with many German inspired bars, the focus decidedly resides with their beer choices of which their accommodating and friendly staff would be more than happy to walk you through to optimize your food and beer flavor combination. This Seattle bar starts getting packed after work and usually stays that way right through closing with a wholly amicable crowd raising their pints to The People's Pub.

As far as kick back neighborhood bars in Seattle go, it's hard to beat The Whiskey Bar for hanging with friends and doing the things that the bar gods intended us to do when they graced our existences with these establishments: drinking. People from all walks of life treat The Whiskey Room like a second home, they're all friendly, as is the staff and are generally interested in striking up a conversation out of the blue. This neighborly attitude combined with The Whiskey Room's well-poured drinks and fine selection of brews has created instant regulars out of any first timers that walk through the door.

A kicked back and attitude free local bar for Seattle hipsters, the Tin Hat Bar and Grill caters to twenty and thirty-somethings looking for a rocking good party with plenty of booze and a simply killer jukebox. But booze isn't the only order of the day at the Tin Hat, the grill also pumps out your standard bar fare, that includes plenty of vegetarian options, better than most and is open til midnight so you can soak up some booze prior to downing some more before the last call bell. Also—and perhaps the best freebie we've ever seen in a Seattle bar—the Tin Hat has free pinball all day on Mondays; you just can't argue with free freakin' pinball and a pitcher of PBR.

This low-key hipster spot is a little off the beaten path, but your search will be well rewarded when you stumble into Twilight Exit and get transported back to a retro swinger heyday bachelor pad. This Seattle bar and lounge pours 'em strong for their growing pantheon of regulars that start arriving early to kick it to some rockin' tunage from the jukebox and get chatty with other locals. Twilight Exit on the weekends is a packed house filled with scenesters and hipsters alike boozing it up. On Sundays, karaoke rules and the local lung monkeys that belt it out at Twilight Exit are actually quite good, but we'll still take a few extra drinks to contend with all that anyway. Seriously, Twilight Exit is one of the last Seattle bars that isn't completely discovered by the masses—so become a regular before everybody else does and watch your hip quotient rise a few notches.

This well loved Seattle bar houses a goodly selection of beer and wine, artsy patrons displaying their...er, artsy works and arguably the best burger in town. Regulars pack into Two Bells bar daily for those well known comforts of a neighborhood bar like being greeted by name with your drink of choice waiting and being able to kick back and relax with some degree of anonymity if desired. Well, now for the burger—Seattle has a lot of bars that do the burger, beer combo, but if you haven't had one at Two Bells, you owe it to yourself to at least do the proverbial Pepsi challenge with the ground round at your favorite local bar and, who knows, you might be switching bars.

The Viking Tavern is a hidden little nugget of a neighborhood bar in Seattle that definitely has one foot firmly rooted in the past and one foot sticking its toes in more modern waters; not that this beloved Ballard bar is at risk of turning into a trendy hangout. The relaxed bar attitude, friendly regulars catching a ballgame, the selection of beer and booze and the prices all suggest the Seattle neighborhood bars of old, but certain amenities like a startlingly good, if short, wine list and a kitchen that smokes its own meats for the Viking Tavern's mouth watering sandwiches decidedly look forward.

The Village Pub takes care of local regulars and sports fans alike—in fact this Seattle bar is a haven for WSU Cougar fans—featuring good food and drink at reasonable prices that keep 'em packed in and returning for more. The staff at the Village Pub is top notch and friendly as is the general atmosphere surrounding the place making boozing here a consistently good time out.