Mark DeJoy
Irish bars, like dive bars, are presupposed to be welcoming. Like a great dive bar, a great Irish pub is worn in, not worn out, and undoubtedly not in a model new constructing. You need your Irish bar like your leather-based jacket: damaged in, with patina, not shiny with its price ticket nonetheless connected. In case your bar is alleged to be haunted or claims to be the town’s oldest, a lot the higher.
Irish pubs are additionally the yin to rooftop bars’ yang: each are locations the place the meals is much less vital than ambiance. So what’s the standards for an ideal Irish pub? It’s not sufficient to have Guinness on draft, an Irish flag above the bar, and the Pogues on the audio system. A terrific Irish pub will even have a convivial ambiance, prefer it’s the neighborhood’s front room. If there’s meals, it ought to be well-made and satisfying Irish-American classics, and by no means treasured (you’re not going for a Celtic incarnation of nouvelle delicacies). There ought to be loads of house for a gaggle, nevertheless it must also be doable to go for an “okay, let’s see if this individual can truly cling” date. Dwell Irish or Americana music is an effective bonus. And oh yeah, at the very least one different Irish beer on draft in addition to Guinness.
We up to date this map in March 2025 (simply in time for Saint Patrick’s Day) by updating our descriptions of those bars, however after consuming and ingesting at numerous Irish pubs round Seattle we didn’t discover any value including to the checklist.
As regular, this checklist is organized geographically, not ranked. Did we miss one thing? Electronic mail us at seattle@eater.com.
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