| | Hipster bar at the forefront of Ballard gentrification (using the term generously); basically a watering hole draped in black iron and burnished wood with a bull skull theme, and fancy bar.
Surprisingly, the food, while just slightly upscale bar food fare, can be quite good. The nachos are a steal--large, hot, loaded with cheese and guacamole, and highly recommended. Okay, actually that was all I had, but really, they were surprisingly good. My more enterprising friends went on to order some kind of octopus thing, but it turned out to be about 90% garbanzo beans and beef (??), and, I'm told, was over-spiced.
But the nachos were good. The table was rickety, even if it did have a big cow skull carved in the center. The people watching is pretty good, as the young and beautiful come here to be loud and obnoxious, and you can watch them get drunk, then fight their way out through the crowd and enshrouding door curtains, and fall into the inevitable waiting cab at the curb. |
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