Seattle Recs

Hi All,

I will be traveling to Seattle with the GF and her family sometime in early July. As I’ve never been to the Pacific Northwest, I’m looking for some awesome brewpubs, breweries, and just great local food spots that are "must stops."

Everything is pretty tentative as of right now, but I figured I’d throw this out there early to get some solid feedback. All recommendations are greatly appreciated!

Cheers & Regards,
James

If you stay downtown, take a short bus ride, car trip, whatever, up to the Fremont, Greenlake, and Wallingford areas. Those three neighborhoods include: Bottleworks, Big Star Beer Market, Brouwers, Naked City, and Uber, amongst other places,e.g. Hales, Fremont Brewing Co., etc.

All of the places I’ve mentioned can easily be visited in one afternoon, without you having to worry about getting around in a timely fashion. Also, I wouldn’t slight the QFC at the University Village shopping center; they have a fairly extensive selection. I visit the QFC frequently, and I’m never let down.

Head to West Seattle, and pay a visit to The Beer Junction. They have a spectacular new space off of California Street, and there’s even parking in the back lot. They also have a nice set of taps, which they, previously, did not have. Also, there’s Beveridge Place Pub, which has a fairly nice atmosphere and selection.

If you make it out to Redmond, there’s Malt and Vine, but if you go there on a weekday, don’t go during rush hour. I’m not too well aware of bars, or other beer destinations they have out there, other than a Whole Foods, which has a fairly decent selection.

If you’re only going to be downtown, I’d say Elysian and Pike are your two best brewery choices. In terms of bottle shops, there’s a small deli that is fairly nondescript actually at Pike Place Market, that, in my opinion, offers a wonderful, calculated selection for the out-of-towner.

Capitol Hill includes a QFC with a badass selection, as well as Stumbling Monk.

Others may have more, that is - better, recommendations, but these are the places I frequent, so have fun, while visiting. If you’re at Uber on Friday night, I’ll be there.

Yes to Beer Junction for sure if you want to look for good local stuff in bottles. Morgan, the owner can guide you to some nice local brews that fit into your favorite styles. May be closed Monday and Tuesday if I recall correctly, so check first.

Hair of the Dog brews are around in bottles and are sought after outside the region. I think Adam is unique, and does not make it out of the Pacific Northwest much. Sample Blue Dot DIPA if you can because it separates itself from the crowd of pretty well.

Georgetown Brewing has Lucille, which is tap only local IPA that many locals swear by. I’m not one of them, but I understand the attraction if you like big, aromatic IPAs.

I do like Pike downtown for their stout and Belgian triple, not so much their other brews.

Collins Pub near Pioneer Square has a lot of good stuff on tap.

Have fun.

Holy shit. Thanks for the depth here guys. Great feedback to work from. Makes me look forward to the trip that much more.

Make sure to check out my hood too. Ballard neighborhood, just north of downtown. Check out the following bars:

Noble Fir - great small appetizers and about 15+ taps

and right across the street is:

Urban Family Public House - 15+ taps, not much food, if any. Taps are usually good with some Belgian ones usually and awesome NW IPAs (like Boneyard)

Make sure to also check out The People’s Pub - german centric bar, with great food (including great German fare) and about 15 taps of German and NW beer. Awesome happy hour prices and options.

Also moving into the neighborhood soon just a short walk from both of these on Market St will be The Kangaroo & Kiwi. They’ll have probably over 20 taps, and some pretty good grub.

These are pretty damn good "beer geek" bar/restaurant lover options, but there are other places that have beer but don’t cater specifically to the beer geek crowd. Stick to the above places predominantly.

Also, another epic beer bar on highway 99 / Aurora just north of 73rd is Uber Tavern. Be sure to check that out. Not too far away from there, a little further west is Greenwood and you can hit up The Yard, Naked City or even 74th St Alehouse.

But the biggest recommendation is in Fremont and CheersMate already mentioned it, but definitely didn’t highlight it. Brouwers. You absolutely need to go to Brouwers. Amazing food, 60 something taps, over 300 bottles of some pretty ridiculous stuff including vintage stuff and just the coolest bar you’ll walk into in the area, and possibly the world (at least according to RateBeer and BeerAdvocate who consistently rank it amongst the top 10 beer bars/restaurants in the world)

Hope this helps!

Julian

Originally posted by CheersMate
If you make it out to Redmond, there’s Malt and Vine, but if you go there on a weekday, don’t go during rush hour. I’m not too well aware of bars, or other beer destinations they have out there, other than a Whole Foods, which has a fairly decent selection.

Great, thanks again for all the recommendations. Ill def let you know if I’m available for a beer, right now the plans are still in the works. Cheers.