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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

News Hunter Gatherer Lodge to Close This Weekend/New Restaurant, 95 Slide, to Open in Its Place

Posted by Grant Brissey on Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:05 AM

This weekend the HG Lodge is throwing its final parties before it closes its doors for good. Proprietor Marcus Lalario says he's tired of the nightclub game, "I've been been doing it for 15-20 years now. I tried to get out before the War Room, but didn't, and now it's just the right time."

He says he's a grown more interested in the restaurant business via his other interests in Li'l Woody's and Captain Blacks. Lalario intends to remodel the building as 95 Slide (named after Ken Griffey Jr's slide into home to beat the Yankees in the 1995 AL Division Series), a restaurant/sports bar with "a strong emphasis on quality food."

He expects the restaurant to open later this spring, at an unspecified date. "The Hill needs a legitimate sports bar. We want a comfortable spot that looks good, has great food, and is a fun hangout, even when there isn't a sporting event."

The final event parties will be the return of 2080s—a weekly night that took place in the building's former War Room incarnation, and for which I used to be a shitty bus boy—on Friday. DJ Scene is flying in from Las Vegas to join Fourcolorzack for the classic lineup. Then Saturday is the final installment of Good Saturday, at least at that location.

Lalario has owned the lease on the 722 East Pike property for years, during which it's seen numerous businesses come and go, including the Hunter Gatherer Lodge, the War Room, Bleu, the Beat Box, and probably a bunch of other stuff I'm forgetting. When asked how the proposed developments on the block might affect his plans, he said simply, "Well, I've got a long lease, so they're going to have to buy me out."

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isn't "bill's off broadway" the go to sports bar on the hill? and right around the corner from the hg lodge?

Posted by yos-wa on March 28, 2012 at 11:25 AM

the Comet isn't a legit sports bar?

Posted by sayin' on March 28, 2012 at 11:30 AM

May I still have happy hour drinks on that roof during those six glorious weeks of summer we get, please? Preferably with Radjaw as DJ.

Posted by care bear on March 28, 2012 at 11:36 AM

@1, yes, but you must admit bill's emphasis on quality food isn't exactly what you'd call heavy.

"When you're 95-Sliding into home, and your shorts are full of foam: diarrhea..."

Posted by gloomy gus on March 28, 2012 at 11:39 AM

@1 My buddies went there for some NCAA hoops a few weeks back. One of the patrons, in an attempt to point out how stupid everyone else is for caring about athletics, screamed "SPORTS!" while the room cheered on a last second play. So while yes, they do provide sports on televisions, you still may be subjugated to self important a-holes who think their interests are better than everyone else's and will take the time to go to a sports bar to prove it.

Posted by JF on March 28, 2012 at 11:53 AM

That is holy ground, where once stood the Brass Connection.

Posted by meowmeowkitty on March 28, 2012 at 12:07 PM

@5 - but that's the hill. the majority of the people on the hill are not necessarily sports fans. so no matter where you open a sports bar, there will be detractors. if you don't want any of those, you should hit up a sports bar downtown or something. i dunno.

@4 - agreed.

Posted by yos-wa on March 28, 2012 at 12:14 PM

Not that I've been there, but I thought Auto Battery was trying to do that?

Posted by NaFun

on March 28, 2012 at 12:31 PM

@5 That's fair enough. I just don't know why someone goes out of there way to be a detractor. Also, I never experienced anything but good time sports fun at the Auto Battery.

Posted by JF on March 28, 2012 at 1:00 PM

Damnit. @7

Posted by JF on March 28, 2012 at 1:01 PM

Seattle has needed a good sports bar since Jersey's closed. Man that place was off the hook. I think the only truly mixed bar in Seattle. Didn't matter if you were black or white, a suit or a punk, you were there to watch sports. It was awesome.

Posted by kutis on March 28, 2012 at 1:10 PM

@7 Sports fans that live on the hill will come out of hiding. It just needs to be a sports bar but in the capitol hill style. Dead animals on the wall. A TV perched on a tree trunk. Old timey seattle sports memorabilia everywhere, blah blah blah. I'm betting that's what this place will look like. Or else some weird hyper-modern place. Also, they should have skee ball.

Posted by Chester Copperpot on March 28, 2012 at 2:19 PM

@12 could we instead of having a "sports bar" maybe have a "bar sports bar?" one with ample amounts of pool tables, dart boards (steel tip, motherfucker!), skeeball, shuffleboard, foosball, etc. now there's a place i can go hang out! i know there's plenty of bars with some of those things, but none with ALL OF THOSE THINGS (that i know of, please let me know if i'm wrong).
pinball and big buck hunter can be allowed, but i'm cool with keeping it all analog bar games as well.

especially steel tip darts. i can't think of one bar on the hill with steel tip darts. enlighten me, please.....this is vital information for me. wait, does bill's off broadway have those....if so, then fuck.

Posted by yos-wa on March 28, 2012 at 2:44 PM

@13 Tommy Gun has steel tipped darts.

Posted by I'm 85 Years Old on March 28, 2012 at 2:56 PM

@12:

Or else some weird hyper-modern place. Also, they should have skee ball.

Auto Battery.

Posted by Josh Bis

on March 28, 2012 at 3:31 PM

Isn't the Elite a sports bar? Or does it not count because it's a gay bar?

Also, I agree with @2...the Comet is a damn good place to get drunk and watch basketball...even with a show happening.

Posted by LEE. on March 28, 2012 at 3:59 PM

Auto Battery has a lot of TVs. And hot dogs. And otherwise swell bartenders who know very little about sports or what channels they might be on or how to find that out. As such, it's not a sports bar.

Posted by chimsquared on March 28, 2012 at 4:19 PM