The College Inn died for awhile. Will go back there next year.
Shultzy's was basically dead in 2021. It's back thankfully.
BigTime could only let in 30 people at a time in 2021 instead of the proper packed in fuckfest that it was this year.
Finn's survived throughout all of it so that it could usher out players from the team. The trashiest place out of all of them.
Shultzy's is so good. Best German food in Seattle.
College Inn is what it is...a bar.
Honestly, U District bar scene has sucked ass for forever
I don’t know that I fully agree re: Schultzy’s, but they have the best fries I’ve ever had.
I also loved The Rat and the Raven. I went there at midnight the day I turned 21, and then ended my formal 21-run there the next night.
I somehow never went to Northlake Tavern and am sad that I didn’t.
Sad times, indeed.
Northlake was great as a broke, hungry college kid. As an adult there are far better choices for good food.
Northlake Tavern was my dad's favorite place when he was at UW from 1957-62.
It was a big deal back in the day. On one occasion I recall waiting in line to be seated with some friends when Chip Hanauer blasted past us. Those of us in line were pissed, we thought he had cut in front of us, a few folks even made some nasty remarks only to find out he was meeting some people who already had a table. He turned out to be very cordial, Anyway, cool place back in the day.
It really was. I remember that time. The pizza took on a legend of its own. People talked about it all the time, which was almost too much of a set-up. Pizza can only be so good. It was pretty good pizza if you're not a thin-crust person. Kind of sloppy but good. I recall it being expensive, but everything seemed expensive in those days.
I first ate Northlake pizza around 2007 and thought it was fucking terrible.
I'll never forget the night my underage roommate panicked when Rocky at Lenny's - with zero interest in carding him - asked him what he wanted and he frighteningly blurted out "I'll have a Vodka Collins." Rocky patiently put her hand in his shoulder and said, "We only serve beer and wine here, Honey."
Great fucking rainy day bar for Jalapeño Petters (4 for a quarter - I think it was) washed down with Rainier Drys for 2 or 3 games of pool.
Those were the fucking days, gents.
I had a fake Alaska DL with my picture on it from the time I was 19. The first time I went out with it was at the phoenix underground downtown. I was weirdly nervous at the bar and asked for a whiskey sour. The bartender, annoyed as fuck, waved his hand at the wall, void of bottles but with a row of taps and proceeded to ignore me for the next 20 minutes.
But Earl's is still open, right? As long as we can still pre/post game on bottom shelf booze poured to the top of the glass with a splash of soda, we'll survive.
Moved to a different spot a few blocks south of the original location years ago. Kind of became a generic shitty sports bar that continues to over serve. Far less chicken wire and homeless people.
Is the old French Lady still the bartender or did she sell the last couch…
I thought she was Eastern Euro, not French.
She poured me more than a few gin and tonics back in the day.
Fucking priceless. In the mid-90s I was speaking French to her thinking she was French, and all this tim she was fucking Eastern Euro. Awesome. She must’ve thought I was a complete douche (not wrong)
This thread is dangerously, but epically nostalgic. Wandering through the bars was so special BITD.
The year I took off between undergrad & grad was a different bar every night. 1. Sunday - Grateful Dead night at the Blue Moon - Girlfriend: Can we have a clean ashtray? Bartender: Dumps ashtray on floor, puts back on table. 2. Monday - ??? - 2. Tuesday - $3 Electric Iced Teas at Harry's - "the bird bar" - on Lower Queen Anne. 3. Wednesday - $1 Rolling Rocks at Rory's on Eastlake - "Think Leave" the pool sharks would bark. 4. Thursday - The Duchess - YKW - Never saw so many Cal hats in one place. Fucking Traitors. 5. Friday - J&M, of course - Roommate bartended there, former Husky linemen would let me skip the line. 6. Saturday - Red Onion, the Attic, or Hank's. Hot honeys in Ked's, ponytail through the hat hole. Still love that look. Also at the Duchess.
Red Door Ale House and Murphy's in Wallingford were regular stops, too.
There is NO FUCKING COMPARISON between then and now. NONE. So don't even try.
But Earl's is still open, right? As long as we can still pre/post game on bottom shelf booze poured to the top of the glass with a splash of soda, we'll survive.
Moved to a different spot a few blocks south of the original location years ago. Kind of became a generic shitty sports bar that continues to over serve. Far less chicken wire and homeless people.
Is the old French Lady still the bartender or did she sell the last couch…
I thought she was Eastern Euro, not French.
She poured me more than a few gin and tonics back in the day.
Fucking priceless. In the mid-90s I was speaking French to her thinking she was French, and all this tim she was fucking Eastern Euro. Awesome. She must’ve thought I was a complete douche (not wrong)
But Earl's is still open, right? As long as we can still pre/post game on bottom shelf booze poured to the top of the glass with a splash of soda, we'll survive.
Moved to a different spot a few blocks south of the original location years ago. Kind of became a generic shitty sports bar that continues to over serve. Far less chicken wire and homeless people.
Is the old French Lady still the bartender or did she sell the last couch…
I thought she was Eastern Euro, not French.
She poured me more than a few gin and tonics back in the day.
Fucking priceless. In the mid-90s I was speaking French to her thinking she was French, and all this tim she was fucking Eastern Euro. Awesome. She must’ve thought I was a complete douche (not wrong)
This thread is dangerously, but epically nostalgic. Wandering through the bars was so special BITD.
The year I took off between undergrad & grad was a different bar every night. 1. Sunday - Grateful Dead night at the Blue Moon - Girlfriend: Can we have a clean ashtray? Bartender: Dumps ashtray on floor, puts back on table. 2. Monday - ??? - 2. Tuesday - $3 Electric Iced Teas at Harry's - "the bird bar" - on Lower Queen Anne. 3. Wednesday - $1 Rolling Rocks at Rory's on Eastlake - "Think Leave" the pool sharks would bark. 4. Thursday - The Duchess - YKW - Never saw so many Cal hats in one place. Fucking Traitors. 5. Friday - J&M, of course - Roommate bartended there, former Husky linemen would let me skip the line. 6. Saturday - Red Onion, the Attic, or Hank's. Hot honeys in Ked's, ponytail through the hat hole. Still love that look. Also at the Duchess.
Red Door Ale House and Murphy's in Wallingford were regular stops, too.
There is NO FUCKING COMPARISON between then and now. NONE. So don't even try.
I liked it better when the Duchess was a tavern and you could still smoke cigarettes there.
I remember going into the bar my grandma used to own in Montana at five years old. Nobody gave a fuck if little kids were in bars there except for maybe Mi zoo LA and Bozeman since the rich fags took over.
I remember going into the bar my grandma used to own in Montana at five years old. Nobody gave a fuck if little kids were in bars there except for maybe Mi zoo LA and Bozeman since the rich fags took over.
Two places I miss are the Last Exit on Brooklyn, on the west end of campus down toward old Mercer and Terry-Lander. I discovered coffee there. To be more precise, I discovered the mocha coffee there and thereby started on the road to becoming a fat ass with that habit. Nipped that in the bud.
A pack of us also used to eat at Orange King pretty much every day. That place could also make you into a fat fuck, what with all the rice plates. Good shit though. MSG factory, but good.
Remember Schultzy's fondly, and yes, the Lincoln Kennedy record sign stood there for years. I'd have assumed it would still be there. Who could break that record? @CFetters_Nacho_Lover or @CfettersNachoLover - either one of you two fat asses? Anything to add?
I consumed about 200 lbs of MSG at the China First restaurants BITD.
I still have heartburn from it. It may have burned a hole in me.
I used to get their Mongolian Beef about 3-4 times a week back when I was at the U.
This thread is dangerously, but epically nostalgic. Wandering through the bars was so special BITD.
The year I took off between undergrad & grad was a different bar every night. 1. Sunday - Grateful Dead night at the Blue Moon - Girlfriend: Can we have a clean ashtray? Bartender: Dumps ashtray on floor, puts back on table. 2. Monday - ??? - 2. Tuesday - $3 Electric Iced Teas at Harry's - "the bird bar" - on Lower Queen Anne. 3. Wednesday - $1 Rolling Rocks at Rory's on Eastlake - "Think Leave" the pool sharks would bark. 4. Thursday - The Duchess - YKW - Never saw so many Cal hats in one place. Fucking Traitors. 5. Friday - J&M, of course - Roommate bartended there, former Husky linemen would let me skip the line. 6. Saturday - Red Onion, the Attic, or Hank's. Hot honeys in Ked's, ponytail through the hat hole. Still love that look. Also at the Duchess.
Red Door Ale House and Murphy's in Wallingford were regular stops, too.
There is NO FUCKING COMPARISON between then and now. NONE. So don't even try.
A Pizza Mart. Cute bartender would serve me drinks after 2am. She was a Philo/religious studies major at Seattle and we'd talk about how stupid epiphenominalism was. Csb. But I guess that's this whole thread.
So fucking cheap too.
My buddy threw up in a pint glass on the bar and didn't spill anything. "I'm not even mad I'm just impressed...but still, get him the fuck outta here."
A Pizza Mart. Cute bartender would serve me drinks after 2am. She was a Philo/religious studies major at Seattle and we'd talk about how stupid epiphenominalism was. Csb. But I guess that's this whole thread.
So fucking cheap too.
My buddy threw up in a pint glass on the bar and didn't spill anything. "I'm not even mad I'm just impressed...but still, get him the fuck outta here."
A Pizza Mart. Cute bartender would serve me drinks after 2am. She was a Philo/religious studies major at Seattle and we'd talk about how stupid epiphenominalism was. Csb. But I guess that's this whole thread.
So fucking cheap too.
My buddy threw up in a pint glass on the bar and didn't spill anything. "I'm not even mad I'm just impressed...but still, get him the fuck outta here."
Deluxe 2 on 25th north of the stadium. Long before Rolling Rock was a thing. Cute waitress there in the bar, got engaged almost and then split up because we were chasing other things
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Freudian Slip?
The year I took off between undergrad & grad was a different bar every night.
1. Sunday - Grateful Dead night at the Blue Moon - Girlfriend: Can we have a clean ashtray? Bartender: Dumps ashtray on floor, puts back on table.
2. Monday - ??? -
2. Tuesday - $3 Electric Iced Teas at Harry's - "the bird bar" - on Lower Queen Anne.
3. Wednesday - $1 Rolling Rocks at Rory's on Eastlake - "Think Leave" the pool sharks would bark.
4. Thursday - The Duchess - YKW - Never saw so many Cal hats in one place. Fucking Traitors.
5. Friday - J&M, of course - Roommate bartended there, former Husky linemen would let me skip the line.
6. Saturday - Red Onion, the Attic, or Hank's. Hot honeys in Ked's, ponytail through the hat hole. Still love that look. Also at the Duchess.
Red Door Ale House and Murphy's in Wallingford were regular stops, too.
There is NO FUCKING COMPARISON between then and now. NONE. So don't even try.
FTFY
https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/northlake-tavern-reopening-big-marios-pizza/281-cf3b3c3f-1262-405f-b961-9500033d9c51
https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/windows-smashed-money-stolen-big-marios-northlake-tavern/281-66d19b64-905b-4e17-ae6b-02b9a7fc2f2a
Welcome to Seattle. What an absolute shithole.
So fucking cheap too.
My buddy threw up in a pint glass on the bar and didn't spill anything. "I'm not even mad I'm just impressed...but still, get him the fuck outta here."
Looks like they still close at 4am. Good chit.