- STILL Liquor
- Interior with beam and salvaged-barn bar.
At a table at STILL Liquor, two guys are discussing their work in its own special tongue. Things are “in sync” among various teams, marketing and other; the word “nontraditional” is used over and over, an incantatory spell. They are business casual, having cocktails. There is mention of software, Facebook, feeds, metrics. Acronyms fill the air. At the bar, two guys are discussing Elliott Bay Book Company’s impending move to Capitol Hill. They’re happy to have it in the neighborhood, though worried about how detrimental to their wallets it’ll be. One of them mentions an art show he was in recently. They’re scruffy, hunched over $2.50 happy-hour cans of Rainier, their longboard skateboards leaning up against the bar next to them. A silence settles comfortably, acronym-free.
Two local guys run STILL. The bartender says that they flipped a bunch of houses, remodeling them all themselves, and that this is their first bar. They did all the build-out, constructing simple wooden booths and a bar top with lumber recycled from a barn. STILL looks good without trying too hard…