A reader writes to our restaurant guide suggestion email:

You should add air-conditioning as a feature. Fuck it's hot.

Your wish is our command, reader, and this information is only going to get more valuable as all the ice on the planet melts: Air-conditioning has been added as a feature for both bars and restaurants. We're aiming to chain an intern to a computer and have them go through every damn place in town marking the ones that have cool, cool A/C, but meanwhile, put your favorites in comments and we'll start there.

Off the top of my head: The Feedback Lounge (new in West Seattle and SO cold you can't believe it), Bastille (new, French, Ballard), Tango (has a little paper sign heralding their A/C stuck to their sandwichboard on the sidewalk), the Brooklyn (great happy hour), Anchovies & Olives, Purr...

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