Pioneer Square, International District & SoDo
Possibly Seattle's best (if also busiest) indie coffee bar, Zeitgeist brews smooth doppio macchiatos to go with its sweet almond croissants and other…
Must-see nightlife in Washington
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 …
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…
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…
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+…
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…
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…
Pioneer Square, International District & SoDo
Regardless if you're a sake (Japanese rice wine) connoisseur or casual enjoyer, you're likely to expand your palate and your cultural horizons at this…
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…
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),…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 –…
Washington Coast
This locally beloved brewery's taproom is an especially great hangout on a sunny day when the pup-friendly patio beckons. There are around 20 beers on tap…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Panama Hotel Tea & Coffee House
Pioneer Square, International District & SoDo
The intensely atmospheric teahouse inside the Panama Hotel has such a thoroughly back-in-time feel that you'll be reluctant to pull out your laptop …
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…
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…
Belltown & Seattle Center
The brainchild of former experimental brewer at Elysian Brewing, Steve Luke, Cloudburst Brewing became an instant Seattle favorite. Replicating the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Olympic Peninsula
Ten miles south of Port Townsend, in Chimacum, is this pastoral, family-run cidery and organic farm in a beautiful setting. In the tasting room you can…
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…
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…
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…
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…
