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Find your Perfect Throwback Cocktail

Find your Perfect Throwback Cocktail

These 10 drinks may not be top of mind, but all pack a punch as well as some colorful history

Many are saying once the pandemic fades, we’ll experience a Roaring ’20s decade similar to 100 years ago. So, with some downtime to prepare, why not start perfecting your cocktail game now? These 10 concoctions come from a vintage bar guide from Glenn Shaw Creations — supposedly from the 1950s — found in an antique…

Rob Smith

James Beard Foundation Returns This Fall With New Cocktail Event

James Beard Foundation Returns This Fall With New Cocktail Event

Raising the Bar will be part of the Taste America series, and tickets are going fast

Amanda Reed from downtown’s Heartwood Provisions will be one of the bartenders at JBF’s new Raising the Bar event

AJ Rathbun

5 Drinks to Help Celebrate National Poetry Month

5 Drinks to Help Celebrate National Poetry Month

Wax poetic with these delicious drinks from local bars

Celebrate National Poetry Month with a Dante at Smith or with another local poetic cocktail.

AJ Rathbun

6 Seattle Valentine’s Day Cocktails for You and Your Sweetest

6 Seattle Valentine’s Day Cocktails for You and Your Sweetest

Skip the flowers and chocolates, and have a delicious cocktail instead

Cocktail-up your Valentine’s Day with enchanting drinks like the Chocolate Venus at the Teacher’s Lounge.

AJ Rathbun

Cocktails, Coziness and a Collection of Cool Grains at Lucinda’s

Cocktails, Coziness and a Collection of Cool Grains at Lucinda’s

Edouardo Jordan's new spot is more than just a JuneBaby waiting room

Try the refreshing Calvados highball and other drinks alongside a grain-centric menu at Lucinda’s Grain Bar

AJ Rathbun

Old Ballard Liquor Co. Transforms from Distillery into a Scandinavian Bar

Old Ballard Liquor Co. Transforms from Distillery into a Scandinavian Bar

Swing by for amazing aquavit cocktails and lutefisk handpies

Drink this: the Ballard Fancy at revamped OBLC.

AJ Rathbun

The Canned Cocktails Your Summer Picnic Needs

The Canned Cocktails Your Summer Picnic Needs

Folks used to laugh about pre-made booze in a can, but these will change your mind (and your drinking game)

Summertime, and the living is easy… with these drinks.

A.J. Rathbun

Scrappy's Bitters Are Taking Seattle's Cocktail Bars By Storm

Scrappy’s Bitters Are Taking Seattle’s Cocktail Bars By Storm

Plus: Five Scrappy's Bitters cocktails to try for your at-home tasting

Miles “Scrappy” Thomas makes bartending look easy (here, at Canon)—you can try creating your own cocktails at home with his line of bitters

A.J. Rathbun

Park Lane Public House in Kirkland Features Pub Standbys With a Northwest Slant

Park Lane Public House in Kirkland Features Pub Standbys With a Northwest Slant

The new spot in Kirkland's downtown has a welcoming vibe and a food and drink menu that has the locals already taking note

Tucked in near the center of downtown Kirkland, Park Lane Public House (115 Park Lane, Kirkland) is from the folks behind the Bottle and Bull, located just blocks away. The Public House opened at the very tail end of January, but when I stopped by recently for a visit with some pals, it was bursting…

A.J. Rathbun

The New Wave of Washington Whiskey

The New Wave of Washington Whiskey

These four Washington distilleries are coming of age and serving up some of the best new whiskey around

Wildwood Spirits’ The Dark Door bourbon was recently unveiled to the world

A.J. Rathbun

This Wonderfully Balanced Cocktail Is Worth a Trip to Tacoma

This Wonderfully Balanced Cocktail Is Worth a Trip to Tacoma

The Bamboo cocktail at newly opened en Rama in Tacoma is best sipped slowly

En Rama (in Tacoma) bartender Chris Keil’s love of sherry shows up in this balanced, playful drink that’s best to sip slowly

AJ Rathbun

This Could Be the Best Happy Hour in Kirkland

This Could Be the Best Happy Hour in Kirkland

The multi-million dollar renovation isn't the only thing worth taking note of at the Heathman Hotel

Kirkland’s Heathman Hotel (220 Kirkland Ave.; 424.284.5800; heathmankirkland.com), a boutique property with 91 rooms and suites, couldn’t be better positioned: It’s in the middle of bustling downtown Kirkland with Google close enough to help keep a steady stream of overnight guests filling the beds of its recently, and tastefully, revamped rooms, the result of a…

Virginia Smyth

New Le Messe on Eastlake: Simple Italian, Done Right

New Le Messe on Eastlake: Simple Italian, Done Right

Brian Clevenger's newest restaurant features well-balanced Italian cocktails and cuisine.

As someone who used to live outside a small town in central Italy (and makes an annual pilgrimage back), I don’t think we can have enough reputable Italian restaurants in Seattle. But hitting the gelato-sweet spot that good Italian hits is tougher than an over-cooked Bistecca Fiorentina. Too many places either focus on overwhelming by…

AJ Rathbun

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