A deluge of Stranger readers voted on their favorite Seattle bartenders, and we profiled the five winners for the 2019 edition of our Happy Hour Guide. This is Timothy, who you can find behind the bar at 1900 Fifth at the Westin Hotel (1900 Fifth Ave) downtown Monday through Thursday.
How did you get into bartending and how long have you been at it?
I wear many hats. I’ve done quite a lot of different things and continue to. We’ve moved a lot, so I often say I’m as much a professional tumbleweed as I am a geographic one. But for me, it always comes back to storytelling.
It’s all about elevating a person’s experience and getting them to see something in a different way and consider something that they hadn’t before. Bartending is a natural fit in all of that—it’s about storytelling, it’s about connecting with people and making an experience ideally bigger and better than it was.
