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What’s the least bad bar in belltown that will be showing the dodgers game tonight?

Going to be visiting in April from the UK for a couple of weeks- first time in the North West for us. Will start and end in Seattle with a slow road trip to Portland and back as well. Making a list of reccomendations from this thread for records shops and food and we are planning on doing a Twin Peaks tour one day. Anything we should not miss? Being British obviously we will be looking for beer and maybe a gig or two could be fun or possibly some baseball…

Ballard will be your dozen+ breweries option. I lean towards Reuben’s (multiple locations just in Ballard), Lucky Envelope, and Bale Breaker for overall slates. Plus Cloudburst on Ballard’s west side (Shilshole) and Fremont Brewing, a few miles east in Fremont. Urban Family and Great Notion (and Dirty Couch, a bit south in Magnolia) for fruited beers. If wild yeasts and saisons are your thing, Fair Isle is excellent, as is Holy Mountain, a mile south on the way to Ballard.

https://www.travelchannel.com/roam-blog/food-culture/twin-peaks-locations-in-real-life Good list of locations. Snoqualmie being my hometown, I remember them filming here when I was a kid. The Falls and the Reinig Road are must-dos. Would suggest going to the bottom of the Falls, either from the trail at the top or by driving down the hill, taking the hatchery road to the car park, and walking around to the base. Both are low impact routes. Majestic when looking up at it.

Thanks for those :)

I haven’t lived in Seattle since 1993, last visit was five years ago, and every one of those breweries is new to me.

Oh wait, I did go to Fremont beer garden.

Ballard also has the good record stores IMO.

http://washingtonbeerblog.com/seattle-breweries-beer-stops/ has a map of Seattle brewery locations. There’s also the free Washington Beer Mobile App with a great map of the whole state. Still very helpful, though not sure the map has been updated since Dec 2022.

Seconding Fair Isle and Holy Mountain (pardon my ignorance but it was the location along the train tracks and not too far from a Hawaiian Bakery that was excellent).

Also had really good beer and food at The Foundry. Previous visits had taken us to Brouwers which was an amazing experience.

We ended up staying in Belltown which was central and perfect for us.

yeah Holy Mountain is great, there's also a pizza place right next to it now that I've heard is v good. Other food recs: Mai Thai Ku in Phinney Ridge, the Central District has great Ethiopian food, esp Cafe Selam; the International District has a wide variety of Chinese, Vietnamese, and Japanese food, Pho Ba is my favorite no-frills pho place. If you're interested in local history or just want a chill place to hang out the Panama Hotel Tea House is a historic building with a lot of documentation of the Japanese community in the early 20th century, also has a really nice cat that will probably come greet you.

Record stores: Wall of Sound in Capitol Hill is excellent, especially for weird/obscure stuff, Daybreak Records in Fremont has a lot of reasonably priced classics, Jive Time and their annex in the Fremont Vintage Mall are also solid. In Georgetown there's a record store in the same building as the Fantagraphics comics store, last time I was there they had a great collection of African records from the 70s.

If you're in town on 4/20 my friends in the shoegaze/motorik band somesurprises have a record release show at the Tractor Tavern, also I think William Tyler is playing with his band in both Portland and Seattle earlier that week.

If you go out to North Bend for Twin Peaks stuff you can also find some really nice hikes that start nearby, though I'd recommend going on a weekday if you want a little more solitude. Useful website: https://www.wta.org/go-outside/map. For wandering around in the city, Discovery Park is beautiful and big enough to get a little lost in.

^^ cosign all of that, I don't know all of those recs but I know some and I trust Joe (I still think abt that Mekons show we both saw every day b/c I am relistening to my CD collection in alphabetical order and I am right in the middle of Mekons section)

I can second the Wall Of Sound recommend, I have been shopping there ever since I moved to the west coast in 1990

hell yeah, is Me revealing itself as a lost classic?

dude I still need that one! it is literally in my discogs cart rn. that setlist blew me away.

Catching up on all these recommendations, will be there in two weeks. Is there a good online source for music and event listings?

https://visitseattle.org/things-to-do/events/

I don't think we have events here

https://everout.com/seattle/ is pretty useful for upcoming events. There are also a few local instagram accounts that do rundowns of local gigs - bandsofseattle and seattlesynth are the ones i remember.

Would definitely recommend everout over the other link

Or say itt what sorta things you’d want to see and what dates yr around for

Just waiting on our flight to come over, very excited. We are in town from Sunday night until Weds morning this week, then back again next Monday or Tuesday until Friday morning.

If anyone knows any great bands playing, any genres I’m all ears- although I tend towards more dancey or electronic stuff, and my wife is a bit more metal than me. Going with a Twin Peaks tour guide on Tueday, might go and see a restored print of Tampopo showing in Central Cinema on Monday (and find some banging ramen beforehand so we don’t get too hungry).

Might see some baseball on Tuesday night if we find a good ticket…

Speaking of which I have no idea where to sit at a baseball game… what is best bang for buck for cheaper ticket with good spot for a game. I’m used to going to football games so I like a little bit of an atmosphere if that’s what I can expect.

I was just looking at show listings for the next few days, had totally missed that Matmos is playing here tomorrow!

Tampopo will be a DCP just in case you meant "print" literally - there's nothing screening on 35mm this week in town. (1979 porn film California Creamin' on Friday, and Reefer Madness plus shorts on Saturday, at the Grand Illusion, all on 16mm though, if anyone else reading wants to know.) I was planning on Tampopo-ing Tuesday or Wednesday, but if you'd like a drink with an internet stranger before going in, there's a great beer place - Chuck's Hop Shop - about 40 steps around the corner. (Joe might live in walking distance too...? silby also.) Central Cinema does food and drinks inside (no noodles) if you want to save time, but there are loads of ramen places ten mins over the hill in Capitol Hill*, a good local taco mini-chain two blocks away (or a less good truck on the corner), and there will be a poke truck at the beer place. If you're interested in legal edibles or combustibles etc while in town, carry your passports with you too - two weed shops across from the taco place.

* from the "tour guide" part of the Twin Peaks note I'm assuming you're on foot / public transport in town: get an Orca card each (think Oyster) at the airport train station and whack $40 on it - you get two hours of transfers covering train, bus, sad streetcar and ferry for every tap-on, so that might even cover both legs of your stay.


A gig option for each night -- I only know the first one, but...

15th: Matmos at the little basement room under the new Crocodile that used to be a mini-cinema. Potential sunset-over-the-harbour patio FAP at the Old Stove Brewery beforehand?
16th: a metal show at the new Croc proper

You're just missing Oneohtrix Point Never at the Paramount (beautiful big 1920s ex-movie palace) on the 18th, and Mrs Shabadoo will be missing Helmet and the Cro-Mags at Neumos (great 600-ish live room with side balcony for olds) on the 21st, in case your travel shifts.

22nd: Metal show Sorcia, Lord Velvet (CO) & Mother Root in Fremont (a bus location)
23rd: Combo Chimbita x Pachyman looks fun at Neumos
24th: a jazz big band at seated cabaret venue The Triple Door
25th: an ambient classical cello-and-loop-pedal artist at the Triple Door

and for other rep cinema: Edward Yang's Mahjong (also a 4K resto) tomorrow at the Egyptian on Capitol Hill (or Sam Raimi's Spidey-Man in some multiplexes); Kiki's Delivery Service and At The End Of The Tunnel (Argentina 2016) at the Egyptian on the 22nd (or Spider-Raimi 2 as above); Sorry To Bother You and Gas Food Lodging at the Egyptian on the 23rd; Corn Island (Georgia 2014) and The Whole Wide World (1996) at EGY on the 25th. New release arthouse inc The People's Joker, I Like Movies, Riddle Of Fire, Kims Video doco etc etc at Northwest Film Forum and the Grand Illusion.

The Regal multiplex downtown has big luxurious electric recliners, if you're thinking of new medium-to-major or various-Indian-language films, btw.

Looks like jacket weather daytime tomorrow, t-shirt potential the rest of the week.

Just arrived. We are staying in Capital Hill actually, I’ll send a PM tomorrow.