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…
Photo by Ham Hock from The Stranger‘s flickr pool.
Babeland has wonderfully icy cold air-conditioning as well. Also, free lemonade.
Madison Pub, Bus Stop and The Buck have been my saviors these past two days.
Satellite Lounge – also advertised on their sandwich board outside
According to Central District News the following restaurants/bars have A/C: All Purpose Pizza, The Bottleneck Lounge and Naan Thai Cuisine.
Little Red Hen in Greenlake was surprisingly cool when I went in the other night. Brouwers in Fremont has the A/C blasting.
The Zoo on Eastlake is probably one of the most disgusting bars to be in these past few days.
Chutney’s Bistro in the Wallinford center: yummy food, nice and cool, busy at dinner in the heat, but open for lunch and not busy.
Ivar’s Salmon House last night: just barely airconditioned, not cool enough to count.
A lot of places don’t have air conditioning.
But they do have giant open air spaces that are in the shade.
And nice ceiling fans.
I think they’re fine, provided you order a Long Island Iced Tea.
Quinn’s and Smith both have air-con. But not Olivar. Oddfellows?
Whoever said the Harvard Exit has air conditioning (either here or at Questionland) is a big, fat liar. Granted, it was cooler than my apartment, but I expect frigid air in a movie theater.
The Stepping Stone (pub) and Shiku (restaurant) in Ballard both have A/C.
I made fun of my hubby for putting AC in our house last summer…now I accept my title as Queen A-hole…All are welcome to come over..you could meet our sweet pit bulls and eat the Gazpacho I just made.
Just when I think Seattle couldn’t get more whiny and lame. It’s hot get the fuck over it. It’s hot every day in a lot of places including the northeast basically all fucking summer. Plus they have a think called humidity and real winters.
Recant…The gazpacho tastes like ass..I made a new recipe… the Andalusian kind and it sucks…almost spit it out…blechhh..
I have just learned that Pagliacci on Broadway, Bailey Coy Books, Bleu Bistro, and possibly Than Brothers have A/C.
oh man, Than Bros Pho is just not appropriate food for hot weather……blahhhh
I agree, but I keep doing it anyway.
The Elite has a large fan (not a fat drinker) that simply re-circulates inflammable air as if providing the mise-en-scene for Dante’s sixth circle of hell. Fair warning.
Keep posting! I’m the unfortunate intern who’s going to be chained to a computer. I need all the help I can get. And that’s not a hyperbole. Interns at the Stranger are actually chained to computers.
Chapel and the lower level of the Cha are both very good a/c wise. Cha crowded and cold, Chapel empty and cold. If you are really craving coldness the later is your best choice.
Also see the listing and comments on Capitol Hill Seattle website for bars with A/C on the hill.
http://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2009/0…
Revyve (bar) near the Sculpture Park in Belltown!
Greenlake Bar and Grill has AC and they’re yummy too!
olympia pizza & spaghetti house on 15th has A/C, yummy pizzas and salads, and really nice waitresses.
ooh also, vivace on broadway. be prepared to share your table.
the Butle Bar and Grill has a very cool air conditioned establishment….
I cook there…in the back, over a hot stove/deep fryer/grill….and I am cooler there than I am in my apartment……..
CC’s has air conditioning in the back bar.