Nobody can blame Seattle eating places for dialing again the offers these days; wholesale meals and booze prices have surged because the pandemic, and there’s no finish in sight. However the truth stays that we want comfortable hour greater than ever—particularly after watching a Swiss stop-motion function about demise, or a movie a few girl who needs to be a chair (actual movies displaying at SIFF!). I’ve scouted out the perfect comfortable hours close to all of the SIFF theaters, so you’ll be able to feed your soul (and stomach) with low cost snax and drinx to get well out of your post-film existential disaster. Each bar or restaurant listed right here is not more than a fast 10-minute stroll from the theaters in query, and often manner nearer.
Paramount and AMC Pacific Place
Seattle has probably the greatest rum libraries in the entire rattling world in Rumba—and this place has bought a fantastic comfortable hour besides. On daily basis till 6 p.m., meals choices like deviled eggs (two for $4), Jamaican jerk wings (three for $7), Caribbean brisket sliders ($6 apiece), and ahi tuna tostadas ($8 per) hold issues tropical, whereas drink specials embody the Barbados punch ($9) or your selection of the three completely different daiquiris on the menu for $14. For $9, the R&R entails a Rainier tallboy and a 1-ounce shot of the Cuban-style home rum mix. Plus, it’s so fairly in there.
Lonely Siren in Pike Place is such a frickin’ vibe, with its massive sunny home windows and Iberian delicacies, wine, and cocktails. Two of their Portuguese wines are 5 bucks a glass, in addition to draft beers and ciders, whereas bubbles and wells are $6. For $9, you may get a tônico, which is your selection of gin, ruby port, tawny port, or white port mixed with botanicals and Seattle Soda Co.’s tonic and poured into an enormous medieval goblet. Conservas—imported tinned fish—are $12, as is the luscious Siren Smash Burger.
SIFF Cinema Downtown
Recent off a well-deserved James Beard nomination this spring, beautiful Roquette doesn’t have to have a contented hour. But it surely does, as a result of it loves you. Specials embody a buck off wine, beer, and bubbles, 12-dollar Negronis and martinis, and a each day menu cocktail that’s additionally $12. Additionally, there’s an enormous low cost on their signature excessive/low snack, an oz of Osetra Caviar served with crème fraîche and Bugles, for $85. That’s $40 off!
Within the historic previous Sit & Spin spot—actual ones know—Luka’s Sit, Sip & Roll began doing pub meals and splendidly bizarre cocktails on Could 1. (Proprietor Jess Gifford, who previously owned Lava Lounge, White Rabbit, and Mr. Darcy’s and presently owns Cottontail Membership, named the bar after her pet rabbit.) From 4 to six p.m. day-after-day, they’ll have $8 home daiquiris and a $10 smashburger-and-beer combo, plus extra each day specials as whimsy dictates. Be certain to strive the Orange Juice Jones, a boozy tackle an Orange Julius with acidulated pineapple and garam masala, and the home kvass constituted of fermented Raisin Bran—amongst different wild concoctions from cocktail polymath Dakota Etley (Sophon, Rumba).
Navy Power will see Luka’s 8-dollar daiquiri and lift them a 6-dollar daiquiri, from 4 to five p.m.! Simply kidding. It’s not a contest, guys. They’re completely different daiquiri ideas, too, though you received’t discover any daiquiri quackery at both of those very high-level cocktail bars. This tiki joint additionally affords you a panoply of 10-dollar choices, e.g., nachos, a rummy mai tai, or a glass of no matter’s within the slushie machine at present. All of these things are gateway medication for the actual juice at Navy Power, although, the place proprietor Chris Elford goes HAM on the cocktail swag—we’re speaking skull-shaped cocktail picks, submerged glowing neon balls, and drinks which have been set on fireplace.
Umi Sake Home’s legendary comfortable hour continues to be rockin’ in any case these years. The huge meals menu is the rationale to be right here, with takoyaki for $7, agedashi tofu for $8, grilled salmon collar for $9, and garlic quick ribs for $11… and that’s BEFORE you get to the sushi half of the web page. Rolls are $8 to $11, sashimi’s $10 to $14, and the sashimi don—that’s your selection of tuna, salmon, yellowtail, albacore, or spicy tuna, served à la rice bowl—is $12. It’s all actually beautiful fish, too. Beverage-wise, there’s 4 or 5 sakes on particular for $7 to $9, plus Sapporo on draft for $6 and wells for $8. You’ll be able to stuff your self like a fugu right here for round $20, no sweat.
SIFF Cinema Uptown and SIFF Movie Heart
As a result of they’re European, the Sitting Room has Aperitivo Hour between Tuesday and Saturday, 4 to five p.m. (they’re closed Sundays and Mondays), with a $10 cocktail menu, wine specials for $9, and a greenback off draft beers. Snacks like truffle almonds, olives, and chips and salsa are additionally discounted, together with a particular snacky-sized model of their signature Crunchywrap [sic]. Additionally, anybody who is available in earlier than or after a SIFF present will get 10-percent off the common, non-happy hour menu! You kinda can’t lose right here.
The brand new-ish Touring Goat serves Asian fusion tapas and craft cocktails, and their comfortable hour is often each day from 4 to five p.m.—nevertheless it extends to the length of each Kraken and Storm recreation. HH specials embody $10 wings, $7 pot stickers, or a pair of tacos for $9 (strive those made with Thai larb!). As for drinks, wells are $6, and quite a lot of basic cocktails just like the French 75 and the Darkish & Stormy are $8–9. Draft beers are $6, and Rainier and Coors tallboys are simply $4.
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Seattle’s WURST restaurant since 1988, heh heh, Schultzy’s Bar & Grill was not too long ago purchased by brother-and-sister workforce Will Schulze and Emily Scully—the children of the unique house owners—who’ve labored there since they had been teenagers. The scene is a bit more trendy now, with a punched-up meals menu and a few fancier home beers on faucet! German sausage and beer are nonetheless the secret, although, and from 3 to six p.m., they’ve each day beer specials, 12-dollar cocktails (all of them!), discounted bratwursts and Seattle canine, low cost wine, a really estimable smooth pretzel with beer cheese, and the universally beloved Schultzy’s tots, smothered in cheese and bacon.
Heartbreakingly, the present’s over on the historic Faculty Inn Pub on June 15, because the house owners didn’t discover a purchaser after looking for greater than a yr. So get your ass down there earlier than it’s gone. This basement dive has each day HH specials on booze, Jell-O photographs, and pints—one factor per day is discounted, nevertheless it’s at all times one thing completely different.
Shoreline Neighborhood Faculty
This specific district of Shoreline’s slightly scarce with regards to comfortable hours, however Aurora Borealis, which is a venue with a bar in it, is boldly touting theirs as the perfect comfortable hour in all of Shoreline. The HH menu’s largely food-based, and there’s numerous it—standouts are the birria fries, barbecue pork, and “flippantly breaded” Wisconsin cheese curds. Drink specials embody $4 wells, wines, home drafts, and photographs of Jack Daniel’s, $5 micro drafts, and $6 photographs of Tito’s, Cazadores, and Captain Morgan.
Honorable point out: Drumlin doesn’t have a contented hour, and it’s about 10 minutes away from SCC, nevertheless it’s one of many loveliest bar-restos within the honest metropolis of Shoreline. Recent off a winter hiatus, a menu refab, and a brand new chef/GM, Zephyr Paquette (Terra Plata, Brasa, Le Petit Paquet), the aesthetic is only a contact extra haute than its pubbier earlier incarnation. Order a lightweight, floral Girls’s Work cocktail made with all women-produced components, together with the lamb albondigas, and completely don’t skip the wonderful roasted carrots. Subsequent door, sister restaurant Ridgecrest Public Home does craft beers and ciders, and you may order Drumlin’s meals from there when you’d moderately sit on the cozy bar.
