• Azzurri is Fremont’s new wine and soccer bar that, as of last week, was only serving two kinds of wine and, to be frank, needed the attention of a broom. Also, the panini are not that good. Yet it is kind of a great place! Find out why over here.
• The Feedback Lounge in West Seattle is rock ‘n’ roll-themed. Food is pub grub plus. They have “the SUNNDECK, a 40-foot long outdoor lounge area,” and a music-related happy hour from 4 to 6 p.m. every day. Today is AC/DC “high voltage” Friday. Wear rubber-soled shoes.
• The Tiger Lounge in Georgetown is “Seattle’s only go-go bar,” which means lava lamps and beaded curtains. Outside, there is a fire pit, which may or may not be go-go in some way. Pub grub and gourmet pizzas are available.
• Sinners and Saints is right near Azzurri in Fremont. Intriguing detail: Goldfish races are occasionally held in an upside-down, water-filled fluorescent light fixture (has PETA found out yet?). Food is Spanish—tapas, paella.
• Hudson in Georgetown is brought to you by the Smarty Pants people and has homestyle Southern food.
• Captain Blacks on Capitol Hill is already famous for its chicken and waffles (it’s boneless kosher breast meat, all sliced up for you, which you may find to be suboptimal, and it costs $11, but it’s pretty damn good). There are two outdoor decks, front and back. The Stranger has recently learned that the apostrophe in “Blacks” was lost at sea.
• Snoose Junction Part Dieu is the Ballard pizzeria’s new Greenwood outlet. Lots of video games, and LPs you can choose from for them to play upstairs in the bar. (Did they mean Part Deux?)
Enjoy the weekend!
Is the Azzurri a “dive” bar?
In french, “Part” can mean a slice of food ie. pizza, cake, etc. “Dieu”, of course referring to god or the heavens. I think they are trying to say they serve slices of heaven or something. I don’t really agree. You Snoose you lose.
The fried cheese curds at apostrophe-less Captain Blacks are little morsels of GOLD. Yum!
Captain Blacks — “The best of suburban Dallas, for some reason in the middle of the most progressive neighborhood in the northwest!”
Once again Fremont for the win! Sounders! Sounders! Sounders!
The lack of apostrophe in Capital Hill’s Captain Blacks chicken and waffle makes me, uh, um, errr… really guys?
#6: Captain Blacks are a brand of cheap cigar popular amongst socially conservative men in the south, just like the fried meat they serve at the restaurant. It’s not possessive.
@1: LOL – Only if Ronaldo is drinking there.
So please…WINE and SOCCER? Only in Seattle, folks, only in Seattle. I can imagine some Gooner glassing a Hammer supporter in a North London alley…the poor Hammer fan says to the police, “He did it with a Lafite Rothschild 78, officer!”
As fuckin’ if…
What’s up with all the lame names for bars and restaurants?
There’s already 2 other Tiger bars in Seattle, come the fuck on people and get some original names.
#7 – I’m the last person on earth that’d correct a sign’s grammar, that wasn’t what I was getting at. Knowing it’s a cigar brand does clear up some “wasn’t Chop Suey enough?” feelings of weirdness I had, however. Consider me clueless, still slightly confused, and mostly in the mood for chicken, waffles, and beer.
@6 and 7: On the phone, the owner said they named it after a brand of pipe tobacco that’s called Captain Black. By all rights, it should be Captain Black’s—he just didn’t like the looks of the apostrophe.
@8: It’s Italian, and Italian beer isn’t so hot….
@10: I know, right!?
@4 I just got off the phone with America. They’ve agreed to stop eating meat. Will you go away now?
…and then there’s Martins Off Madison – no apostrophe – even though Martin owns it. Is there an apostrophe shortage we’re unaware of? Caused by the misuse of the possessive its?
I always get confused by that and end up at Martinis Off Madison which is located below a tattoo parlor.
Or at least somebody there keeps giving me a martini for every fiver I slip em.
no live music at the “feedback lounge”.
lame lame lame lame lame
#14 – I’m surprised there was even an “s” available, with the rampant misuse of Spud”s” Fish and Chips and Fred Meyer”s”.
Anyhow, when it comes to signage, I’m all about making it look how you want it over making it “correct”.
Every time I catch a soccer game (football) in Italy or France, the bar has wine.
So?
They also have good munchies.
@8: because England is the only country with soccer, right?
@19: It’s the country by which I define my preferred football experience; but, uh, not sure why you ask. Concern troll?
@20: it was a rhetorical device. Mostly, I thought you were being a bit of a twat. Football’s global, you know, you don’t have to constantly define it by what the English do. (They’re pretty boring, fan-wise, these days. Germany has the crowds, Italy has the dangerous violence. England just has high ticket prices and corporate boxes.)