Your Food & Drink Guide to Seattle Halloween 2020: Seasonal Sweets, In-Person Dinners, Spooky Bars, and More

October 26, 2020
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Knock back a pumpkin spice Fernet shot in a skull-shaped glass at Navy Strength's "fully immersive haunting experience" Nightmare on Wall Street (Navy Strength)

Halloween is almost here, and Seattle bars and restaurants are celebrating in socially distanced style. Whether you want to indulge your sweet tooth with Salt and Straw's "Spooktacular" ice cream flavor series, take part in a campfire tale-themed evening Past Event List at Mountaineering Club List , or order Paragon Supper Club List 's Le Dîner Noir Past Event List for takeout, there's no excuse for a dull Halloween this year—even if parties are canceled. Read on for details on the spookiest food and drink events and specials so you can plot a delicious weekend full of thrills and chills. Plus, check out our food and drink guide and our guide to socially distanced and virtual Halloween events List .


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SWEETS

Batch Baking Company List
In a tribute to the classic sweet Pearson's Salted Nut Roll and to Halloween, the nostalgic bakery is baking up brownies studded with candy corn and peanuts.
Capitol Hill
Pickup

Byen Bakeri List
Adorn sugar cookies with colorful icing and sprinkles with DIY decorating kits from the Scandinavian bakery.
Queen Anne
Pickup or delivery

Cinnaholic List
For a limited time, the vegan cinnamon bun bakery is offering rolls topped with pumpkin spice frosting, "Cinnadoodle" cookie bites, marshmallows, and cinnamon dust.
Capitol Hill
Pickup or dine-in

Cupcake Royale
Seattle's original cupcakery is celebrating the holiday with a few seasonal specials, including Pumpkin Spice (a cupcake made with Elysian Brewing’s Night Owl Pumpkin Ale and topped with swirls of pumpkin spice frosting and candied pumpkin seeds), Pumpkin Cardamom (a pumpkin cupcake made with pumpkin puree and topped with cardamom cream cheese frosting and sprinkles), and Caramel Apple (an apple cinnamon cupcake filled with apple compote and topped with salted caramel buttercream). 
Various locations
Pickup or delivery

Deep Sea Sugar & Salt List
If you'd like to sample the flavors of your Halloween treat pail in cupcake form, Georgetown's Northwest-inspired specialty cake shop has a Halloween candy cupcake box, complete with cupcakes inspired by Junior Mints, Lemonheads, Twix, Mounds, Reese's, 100 Grand, and Mounds and packaged in a box with an adorable Sharpie monster face. The box is available for pre-order for pickup during Halloween weekend, Friday through Sunday.
Georgetown
Pre-ordered pickup

Fuji Bakery
In the spirit of the season, the Japanese-French bakery has rolled out fluffy pumpkin spice custard-filled malasadas and spooky monster-eyeball cupcakes.
Chinatown-International District, Queen Anne, and Bellevue
Pickup

Good Day Donuts List
White Center's friendly neighborhood donut shop will festoon a half-dozen donuts with extra creepy accoutrements, like blood, spiders, eyeballs, and more. The box is available for pre-order for pickup from 9 am-1 pm on Saturday.
White Center
Pre-ordered pickup

Lady Yum
The macaron maven invites you to "embrace your inner ghoul" and "eat, drink, and be scary" with a myriad of seasonal flavors, including "black magic" (a take on the classic magic cookie bar, but with activated charcoal in place of graham cracker and with the addition of cornflakes), pear frangipane, hazelnut maple mocha, and a pumpkin spice macaron filled with the brand's popular Harry Potter-inspired "butterbeer" flavor. They've got you covered for all your Halloween festivities with Halloween-themed macaron towers, champagne packs (six macarons with a choice of champagne), and packs of 10 or 15 spooky seasonal macarons, available to be shipped to your door with two-day delivery.
Various locations
Pickup or delivery

Lowrider Baking Co.
The Central District cookie shop's Halloween specials include chocolate ghost cookies, "pumpkins and bats" birthday cake cookies, and stuffed Halloween birthday cake cookies with some delightfully gruesome green slime encased inside.
Central District
Pickup or delivery

The London Plane List
The bright, airy wine bar will be well stocked with "ghoulish cakes," "graveyard pudding," "creepy popcorn balls," "boo meringues," and "ghostly mochas," as well as other drink specials. There will also be a costume contest and free treats for kids.
Pioneer Square
Pickup or delivery
Oct 31 only

Macrina Bakery
Macrina covers all the bases with their spooky ghost cupcakes, peanut butter chocolate crunch cupcakes decorated with spiderwebs, mini pumpkin cheesecakes, and more. Plus, for your Día De Los Muertos festivities, they'll be baking a traditional pan de muerto through November 6th.
Various locations
Pickup or delivery

Milk Drunk List
This fried-chicken-and-soft-serve spinoff from the owners of the Beacon Hill hot spot Homer is swirling pumpkin mascarpone ice cream into house-made waffle cones this month.
Beacon Hill
Pickup or delivery

Molly Moon's Ice Cream
Embrace pumpkin season with a scoop of pumpkin clove ice cream from the local ice cream chain, made with organic pumpkin from Oregon's Stahlbush Farm.
Various locations
Pickup or delivery

Pagliacci Pizza
Instead of trick-or-treating, let the candy come to you: Pagliacci will include a little treat bag with all orders of a whole pie on Halloween, while supplies last.
Various locations
Delivery
Oct 31 only

Salt and Straw
For October, the Portland-based artisan ice creamery's limited series of "spooktacular"-themed flavors includes Great Candycopia, a salted butterscotch ice cream stuffed with homemade versions of Twix, Heath bars, and peanut butter cups; Creepy Crawly Critters, a light green matcha ice cream with real chocolate-covered crickets and toffee-brittle mealworms; and Mummy's Spiced Pumpkin Potion, a vegan and dairy-free twist on the pumpkin spice latte made with August Uncommon Tea.
Ballard, Capitol Hill, and Totem Lake
Pickup, delivery, or dine-in


Shug's Soda Fountain List
Pike Place's retro soda shoppe will feature a limited edition pumpkin ice cream flavor this weekend, ready to be dropped into a frothy float or a milkshake.
Downtown
Pickup or delivery


Trophy Cupcakes
The gourmet cupcake bakery and party store has everything you need for your frightening fête, including decorated dozens of cupcakes (decked out with little ghosts, spiders, monsters, and more), a Trophy "boo" box of gifts and treats to surprise your friends and neighbors, a "Monster Mash" cupcake loaded with candy and treats, a Halloween magic piñata cake, adorable decorations, macarons, bottles of wine, and more.
 Various locations
Pickup or delivery

Top Pot Doughnuts
The longtime Seattle stalwart is selling their classic raspberry jelly bullseye doughnuts with a spine-chilling twist—an eyeball embedded in the center.
Various locations
Pickup or delivery

MEALS

Big Mario's List
Planning a Halloween movie night in? We've got the perfect pairing for you: SLAY Past Event List The Stranger's horror-themed short film festival, has teamed up with Big Mario's to offer special SLAY-themed pizzas. Each pie is a salty-sweet combo of pineapple and black olives, sriracha, goat cheese, and basil. It's "enough to spook you but also enough to leave you shrouded in mystery," as they write. Stop by any of their locations on Halloween only to grab a slice for $6.66 (get it?) or a whole pie for $26.66.

Cafe Nordo List
The innovative dinner-theater destination Cafe Nordo will bring the spooky drama to your home with a combination cocktail kit/dessert/puzzle box Past Event List . A mysterious black cake box tied in a turquoise ribbon will arrive at your door, along with an antique key and a letter. It's then up to you to piece together a "story of love, betrayal, and a deadly dose of lead acetate sugar" using an online portal, ingredients, letters, and puzzles. There's also an option to add on a dinner and wine to make it an even more immersive experience. Or, if you're up for an in-person experience, check out their BLOODY DELICIOUS dinner series Past Event List : Chef Erin Brindley has conjured up a special prix fixe menu of dark and spooky delicacies—including housemade fettuccine with uni butter and black lime caviar allegedly brewed in a witch's cauldron, Silkie Bantam black chicken and roasted pepper coq au vin with fingers fingerling potatoes, and Tres Leches with sherry pomegranate molasses and pomegranate arils that looks like blood splattered on snow—for a limited number of lucky diners on the week of Halloween. For the setting, they're making use of the Alice in Wonderland-inspired sets from their Curiouser and Curiouser show, which was canceled early on in the lockdown. 
Pioneer Square
Delivery or in-person

Corvus & Co. Past Event List
Start your Halloween off right with a Mediterranean-influenced brunch with limited indoor seating at Capitol Hill's artsy neighborhood bar. The menu includes overnight oats with orange blossom lassi yogurt, stuffed pumpkin French toast, red shakshuka, a seitan vegan hash, and a baked omelette with sage and goat cheese.
Capitol Hill
In-person
Oct 31 only

Dick's Drive-In
Kids thirteen and under who show up to the iconic local burger chain in costume will be rewarded with a complimentary hamburger or cheeseburger.
Various locations
In-person
Oct 31 only

Hotel Sorrento Past Event List
You're invited to party like the undead and dine "one coffin's length apart" at Hotel Sorrento's Zombie Soiree dinner, which includes zombie punch, a three-course dinner with dishes like squash and mascarpone ravioli and pumpkin cheesecake, a wine pairing, and a digestif. There will also be a zombie costume contest, so pile on the face paint.
First Hill
In-person
Oct 30 only

Paragon Past Event List
Pick up a three-course menu from Paragon to linger over by candlelight at home, with dishes like stuffed acorn squash and cocktails like a Pumpkin and Vanilla Old Fashioned and a Spiced Pear and Apple Brandy Martini. While you dine, you'll be treated to a virtual Halloween cabaret performance by the local burlesque collective Mod Carousel.
Queen Anne
Pickup
Oct 31 only

Serious TakeOut List
Tom Douglas himself has prepared a "creepy crawly" family dinner box with buttermilk fried chicken tenders, vegetable crudités, creamy baked mac and cheese, mixed green salad, two "mummy" hot dogs wrapped in pastry, and brown butter Rice Krispy treats and whoopie pies (which come with DIY decorations so kids can transform them into mini monsters).
Ballard
Pickup

Suite Past Event List
During Halloween weekend, the Bellevue restaurant and lounge Suite will have a socially distanced costume dinner party with a "gore-met" three-course meal, a haunted photo backdrop, and a virtual costume contest, available by reservation only.
Bellevue
In-person
Oct 30–31

TO-GO DRINKS

DIY Tea Lab Past Event List
The bubble tea shop will give away free hot cocoa to anyone in costume.
Kirkland, Newcastle
Pickup

Elysian Brewing List
The local brewery has released its lineup of pumpkin beers for fall: Night Owl (a beloved pumpkin ale), Punkuccino (a pumpkin ale with Stumptown Coffee toddy, cinnamon, and nutmeg), The Great Pumpkin (an imperial pumpkin ale), and Dark Knife (a pumpkin Schwarzbier). You can find the ales at Elysian locations as well as grocery and liquor stores. They'll also be hosting their annual squash-themed extravaganza, the Great Pumpkin Beer Festival, online this year—kits are sold out, but you can still get six-packs of the Night Owl Pumpkin Ale through Elysian's website.
Various locations
Pickup

Friday Afternoon List
The geek-themed Fremont tea shop has a whole lineup of horror-themed sips, including the zombie-inspired "Raise the Dead," the vampiric "O-Negative," and the Frankenstein tribute "The Modern ProTEAtheus." If you need an additional nudge to place an order, all of their spooky teas are also currently 15% off.
Fremont
Pickup or delivery

Reuben's Brews List
The Ballard beer-geek favorite has released its annual fall imperial pumpkin ale, Autumn Harvest. It's available at the Reuben's taproom and to-go store as well as at the brewery's Pacific Northwest distributors.
Ballard
Pickup or in-person

SPOOKY BARS TO VISIT

Brewing Savage Co. Past Event List
Prefer microbrews to Milky Ways? This new Kirkland brewery will have its grand opening during Halloween weekend, with treats for kids and beer and wine for adults, plus new releases, food trucks, Halloween music, and Halloween movies. Wear a costume to get $1 off your beer.
Kirkland
Oct 29–Nov 1

Captain Blacks List
The nautical Capitol Hill hangout is currently dressed up with kitschy-cute pumpkin decor and serving autumnal specials like hot toddies and the Rusty Razor (Licor 43, Magdalena Rum, and black tea with lemon).
Capitol Hill

Gold Bar Past Event List
The gilded South Lake Union bar will feature decorations, drink specials, drag performances, and tunes from DJ Lace Cadence. The socially distanced party will be available by reservation only.
South Lake Union
Oct 31 only

Dreamland Bar & Diner List
Fremont's recently opened bar and diner is temporarily transforming into a spooky experience called "Screamland Past Event List ," fully decked out in cobwebs, skulls, and inflatable monsters. There's also a costume contest for Halloween weekend, with a $100 gift card for the first place winner and $50 gift cards for second place winner and the best group costume.
Fremont
Oct 30-Nov 1

Fiddler's Inn Past Event List
Fiddler's Inn will host a socially distanced, reservation-only pumpkin carving contest sponsored by Seapine Brewing, Rooftop Brewing, and Future Primitive Brewing. Each attendee will receive a 10" pizza, a pint of beer, and a hollowed-out pumpkin. Plus, at 9 pm, the judges will proceed to announce the winners on Facebook live, with categories for Best in Show, Most Creative, and Most 2020.
Wedgwood
Oct 28 only

Korochka Tavern Past Event List
The cozy, unpretentious Korochka Tavern in Wallingford will host tarot readings accompanied by a special cocktail, available for $50 by reservation.
Wallingford
Oct 29 only

Little Radio List
This laidback Tacoma bar and eatery is "in full Spooky Season mode" with pumpkin donuts, pumpkin beer, and thematically appropriate cocktails like the Zombie and the Corpse Reviver #2.
Tacoma

Little Tin List
Get a little witchy with Little Tin's October cocktail "Death Becomes Her": whiskey, Italian amaro, Italian espresso liqueur, lavender bitters, boozy amaro cherries, and a house "mother tincture" consisting of hawthorne, lavender, and lemon balm. Pairs well with casting hexes and swaying to "Rhiannon" in a fringed shawl.
Ballard

Mountaineering Club Past Event List
Live out your own personal episode of "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" with the rooftop bar Mountaineering Club's campfire tale-themed evening, with DIY pumpkin spice s'mores, campfire candles, "ghost story kits" with custom booklets and mini flashlights, "supernatural spirits," and a spooky playlist by Light in the Attic Records. Bring your own blanket to snuggle up in.
University District
Oct 31 only

Navy Strength Past Event List
As a spooky-season tradition, Belltown’s award-winning tiki bar Navy Strength temporarily transforms into a “fully immersive haunting experience" called Nightmare on Wall Street each October, with libations inspired by classic and modern horror flicks. This year, they're bringing the spine-chilling immersive experience home to you with weekly cocktail kits for you to take home, make, and enjoy while watching the film they're based on, complete with popcorn, snacks, and your very own keepsake zombie glass. This year's lineup includes drinks inspired by MandyIt Follows, and more. The bar will also be open in all its Halloween glory for limited in-person service, with drinks like pumpkin spice Fernet shots served in skull glasses and the Carrie-inspired Telekinetic Energy (a slushie set on fire with aged rum, Rainier cherries, Benedictine, dry curaçao, and “blood” paint). Walk-ins are allowed, but reservations are recommended to avoid a lengthy wait.
Belltown

Olmstead List
The Capitol Hill bar will celebrate Halloween by screening a different horror movie Past Event List every night until Halloween, along with appropriately spooky drink specials. Their sports bar will also have all-day happy hour. Plus, there's an Instagram costume contest: You can come in and snap a photo of yourself at Olmstead in full Halloween regalia on Friday or Saturday, post it on Instagram, and tag the bar for a chance to win a $100 gift card.
Capitol Hill

The Pine Box Past Event List
Snack on popcorn and watch A Nightmare on Elm Street and Cabin in the Woods at Capitol Hill's mortuary-turned-watering-hole the Pine Box as you disembowel pumpkins and craft your own jack-o'-lantern masterpiece at a pumpkin carving party. The socially distanced event will take place in the Pine Box's covered beer garden, with movies projected on a screen.
Capitol Hill
Oct 27 only

Vito's Past Event List
In lieu of their annual ER Crawl, which lets the hospital-horror side of Halloween shine, Vito's spent the first couple weeks of October inviting patrons to show off their costumes in the most COVID-friendly way possible: without their germy bodies inside them. Now, when you stop by for dine-in through Halloween, you can check out the costumes on display and vote on which lucky winner should get the $500 prize.
First Hill

Water's Table Past Event List
Feast your eyes on the stunning view at a special Halloween edition of the Hyatt Regency Lake Washington restaurant's lakeside Dock and Drink. The outdoor event will feature spooky cocktails, socially distanced trick-or-treating, and a Halloween costume contest to win a complimentary staycation package.
Renton
Oct 31 only

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