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Seattle Music Venues: The Showbox at the Market

Where: 1426 1st Ave. [map], Seattle, WA, United States, 98101
October 30, 2007 at 9:30 AM | by ced138 | 0 Comments

The Showbox at the Market sits comfortably in Pike Place Market, the city's most tourist-friendly stretch of shops and fish mongers. Since opening in 1939, the venue has hosted icons like Duke Ellington, Muddy Waters and the Ramones. It also provided a venue for now-well-known Seattle-based acts like burlesque queen Gypsy Rose Lee and Pearl Jam. Today, the guitars are out and DJs and drum machines are in: The Showbox is the best place in Seattle to catch hip hop.

Before the latest Method Man concert, fuel up on food and drink right at the venue. The Green Room is an adjacent bar and diner open Tuesday through Saturday from 5 pm to 2 am, or anytime there's a show. It pays to get there early: you can't beat the happy hour specials.

Related Stories:
· Showbox at the Market [Official Site]
· Live Music coverage [Jaunted]
· Seattle Music Venues coverage [Jaunted]

[Photo: Kevin Crumbs]

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Best Raw Bars :: Elliott's Oyster House

Where: 1201 Alaskan Way [map], Seattle, WA, United States, 98101
October 18, 2007 at 3:01 PM | by pbb | 0 Comments

Shucking season is here, and we're searching for the top raw bars. Our map has the exact locations of the best briny bivalves.

While San Fran's Swan has its share of devotees, we could never overlook the best place on the West Coast for oysters: Seattle. And while we know it's a bit touristy, Elliott's Oyster House deserves all those guidebook mentions. With a deck overlooking Elliott Bay, there's no better place to order a platter and enjoy the Emerald City.

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Zig-Zag Cafe

Where: 1501 Western Ave. [map], Seattle, WA, United States, 98101
February 17, 2006 at 12:00 PM | by johnrambow | 0 Comments

The mixologists behind the "At Brown's Bar" podcast clued us into the wonders of The Zig-Zag Café, which they call the best cocktail bar in Seattle. The Zig-Zag keeps lots of semi-obscure liqueurs and other ingredients on hand, and takes pride in sloshing them together well. Sounds like a perfect place to finally try those drinks that were your great-grandpappies' favorites back in the day.

Related Stories:
·   Zip Zag Café [Official site]
·   Zig-Zag [Drinkboy]
·   Zig-Zag Café [Citysearch]

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Hotel Max

Where: 620 Stewart Street [map], Seattle, WA, United States, 98101
October 28, 2005 at 11:29 AM | by sedona | 0 Comments


The newest hotel on the Seattle scene is Hotel Max, another foray into minimalism (we think we'd like to see an anti-minimalist hotel sometime soon...tcotchkes everywhere, junk piles in the hallway...) Anyways, Max does have some cool features-like its total art-theme. Every room door features a photograph by a local artist and "The whole place is designed as a foil for both emerging and established artists & photographers in town," so be surprised with new pieces everywhere you look.

Its got 163 rooms with flat-screen tv's, marble bathrooms and "floating" sinks. Intro rates are $129, after Jan 1. they go up to $179, although we hear the rooms are "NY tight." They've also got a well-received restaurant just off the lobby.

Related Stories:
·   Minimalist Hotels to the Max [USA Today]
·   Old Vance Hotel reinvented as Hip Hotel Max [KING5 Seattle]
·   This Hotel Smells Like Teen Spirit [HotelChatter]