Town Hall Seattle
Town Hall is a fantastic organization that hosts book talks and lectures, and more rarely concerts and podcasts recordings, for very low prices—usually $5. Cur…
1119 Eighth Ave
First Hill
206-652-4255
First Hill
206-652-4255
Fireside Room at Sorrento Hotel
Bring a date (or your grandparents) and sink into the inviting and timelessly opulent lounge inside the classic Sorrento Hotel. Many things here are tasseled a…
900 Madison St
First Hill
206-622-6400
First Hill
206-622-6400
Temporarily Closed
Vito's Restaurant & Lounge
After a sad absent spell, Vito’s reopened in the fall of 2010, returned to its old-school Italiano-style glory by Hideout/Vital 5 maestro Greg Lundgren, with d…
927 Ninth Ave
First Hill
206-397-4053
First Hill
206-397-4053
Frye Art Museum
For decades, the Frye, founded in the early 20th century by a Seattle meat-packing family, was a sleepy place full of gilt frames and orthopedic shoes. In rece…
704 Terry Ave
First Hill
206-622-9250
First Hill
206-622-9250
Baltic Room
The Baltic Room hosts top-shelf DJs and occasional live acts with superb sound, an intimate dance floor, and plenty of seating room. The place is swank without…
1207 Pine St
Seattle
206-625-4444
Seattle
206-625-4444
Daniel's Broiler
This new location of the classic Northwest steakhouse on the second floor of the Hyatt Regency serves its signature USDA prime steaks and seafood to the sounds…
808 Howell Street
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-596-9512
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-596-9512
Seattle Art Museum
Seattle's largest art museum was founded in the 1930s by a collector of Asian art. Today most of the Asian collection is housed at the Asian Art Museum in Volu…
1300 First Ave
Downtown Seattle
206-625-8900
Downtown Seattle
206-625-8900
Hard Rock Cafe
If you call, you might get this answer: "Hard Rock Cafe, this is Pete—how can I rock you?" The staff here is so upbeat, it ought to be illegal. The upsca…
116 Pike St
Pike Place Market
206-204-2233
Pike Place Market
206-204-2233
The Showbox
The Showbox is a great place to see a show, even when it's sold out. There's hardly a bad sight line in the house; it's got two bars; and the room has the clas…
1426 First Ave
Downtown Seattle
206-628-3151
Downtown Seattle
206-628-3151
Green Room
The Showbox's side bar, the Green Room, is a comfortable place to hang out before your show starts. They have smaller touring acts play there a few times a mo…
1426 First Ave
Pike Place Market
206-628-3151
Pike Place Market
206-628-3151
Temporarily Closed
The Pike Pub at Pike Brewing Company
Despite the swarms of tourists encircling its Pike Place Market location and the mountains of beer kitsch inside their bar, locals should be visiting this land…
1415 First Ave
Pike Place Market
206-622-6044
Pike Place Market
206-622-6044
Comet Tavern
The Comet’s done a fine job of getting people drunk since 1948. More recently—for a long time—it was a place to see hearing-impairing punk bands, get beer spil…
922 E Pike St
Seattle
206-322-9272
Seattle
206-322-9272
Alibi Room
Aside from the overall hilarity of the music selections (everything from Hall & Oates to the Bee Gees), the insular nature of the small space and the camarader…
85 Pike St #410
Pike Place Market
206-623-3180
Pike Place Market
206-623-3180
Owl N' Thistle Irish Pub
The Owl N’ Thistle is a dark and cozy, family-owned Irish pub with lovely brick walls, antique multipane windows, and shelves filled with elegant-looking books…
808 Post Ave
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-621-7777
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-621-7777
Jazz Alley
This famous joint is on the border between downtown and Paulallentown, dispensing dinner service, cocktails, and world-renowned jazz and fusion acts for all wh…
2033 Sixth Ave
Belltown
206-441-9729
Belltown
206-441-9729
Neumos
One of the most respected and reliable venues in the city as far as booking talent goes, Neumos is the hub around which Capitol Hill rotates. Its relatively sm…
925 E Pike St
Capitol Hill
206-709-9442
Capitol Hill
206-709-9442
Kells Irish Restaurant & Pub
This cozy Irish pub run by the McAleese family has been a favorite for more than three decades. The building was originally the Butterworth & Sons mortuary, an…
1916 Post Alley
Pike Place Market
206-728-1916
Pike Place Market
206-728-1916