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.
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.
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.
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.
0 Comments - Add Yours
by ced138
The mixologists behind the "
