Shorty's on 2nd Avenue is the Coney Island themed Belltown carny dive with hot dogs at the bar, two rooms of pinball through the back and boozy slushees up front.
Tip: Daily noon to 02:00. Cash bar, pinball back room with no cover, hot dogs and corn dogs run all hours.
Address: 2316 2nd Avenue, Seattle, WA 98121
Screwdriver on 1st Avenue is the basement rock and roll dive in the historic Barnes Building, a former grunge era recording studio, with Belltown Yacht Club's live music room next door in the alley.
Tip: Daily 16:00 to 02:00. Go down the staircase between the photo walls to find the bar. Belltown Yacht Club next door for ticketed live music.
Screwdriver on 1st Avenue is the basement rock and roll dive in the historic Barnes Building, a former grunge era recording studio, with Belltown Yacht Club's live music room next door in the alley.
Tip: Daily 16:00 to 02:00. Go down the staircase between the photo walls to find the bar. Belltown Yacht Club next door for ticketed live music.
Hillside on East Olive Way is the neighborhood Capitol Hill bar with 18 rotating drafts, 100 plus liquors and a game room running pool, darts, pinball, skee ball and Big Buck HD.
Tip: Daily 14:00 to 02:00. Happy hour 16:00 to 18:00 with $1 off drafts and wells, $8 Evan Williams and PBR. Trivia and pop ups rotate.
Q Nightclub on Broadway is the 12,500 square foot Capitol Hill room designed by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson with a Funktion One rig, anchoring the city's house and techno bookings on weekends.
Tip: Open Wednesday through Saturday. Headline nights run 22:00 to 03:00 Friday and Saturday; weekday lounge programming closes by 02:00. Tickets via Tixr.
Trinity Nightclub on Occidental fills a Pioneer Square corner with three rooms, two dance floors and a 360 degree LED wall, the only 18 plus dance club running every weekend in the state.
Tip: Doors Friday at 22:00, Saturday at 22:00. 18 plus to enter, 21 plus to drink. Massive Fridays and Reload Saturdays anchor the calendar.
Monkey Loft is the SoDo warehouse dance bar inside a 1929 brick building, with an upstairs Deck patio over the skyline that becomes the after hours techno spot south of the stadium.
Tip: Programming clusters Friday and Saturday after 22:00, often through dawn. The Deck opens in warm months for outdoor sets.
Kremwerk on Minor Avenue is the underground queer club that pairs with Timbre Room and Cherry to run a three space complex of techno, house, drum and bass and drag near Capitol Hill.
Tip: Doors Friday and Saturday 18:00, programming through 02:00. Buy advance tickets via Dice; the complex sells out on big bookings.