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It’s where they come to clink glasses while they share highlights (and lowlights) of a long labored through work day, engage in raucous (but respectful) debate on topics that range from local politics to sports (everyone is of course a die hard Seahawks fan), and of course partake in a wallet friendly menu that features comfort food hostile to any diet and Washington mainstays Vitamin R (Rainier Beer, as if that needed explanation), PBR and Mac & Jack’s.
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The theory that what it lacks in aesthetics it more than makes up for in communal spirit is on full display almost nightly, as immediately after walking into the place you’re treated to the sight of an ethnically diverse, mainly blue collar clientele from the surrounding West Hill area – including retired veterans from the nearby VFW who want to mingle with others, public servants of the Skyway Fire Station 20, and postal workers just discharged of their duties for the day, along with the hundreds of sole proprietors and small business owners in the area starved for social interaction with anything not a computer monitor – all locked in interaction with one another.
It’s like going to your favorite uncle’s house every time you come in.” says Patty, who is semi-retired and been coming to the Beachcomber for years. No one is sitting here judging you or trying to impress anyone. “This a a place that you can come and relax, while you pal around with everyone. It’s the “everyman” of bars the consistent, “likeable” Tom Hanks that runs afoul of today’s score of hot, flavor of the month pubs that seek to be more than mere “watering holes” that populate the more “attractive” segments of the city.īut if you ask any patron that has frequented one of Skyway area’s most venerable businesses, they wouldn’t have it any other way. In terms of modern vogue, well the fact that its jukebox evidently believes they stopped making music after 1988 should say it all.
When you step to the counter to order a drink you won’t encounter a “mixologist” with the ability to instantaneously conjure whatever esoteric concoction an overactive imagination can conceive or an encyclopedic knowledge of libations (one indelible moment of a recent visit there was when a patron ordered a “Pinot” and the bartender asked if they wanted the “white” or “red” one). Anyone walking through the doors of the Beachcomber Bar & Grill in Skyway might be overwhelmed by its apparent “ordinariness” – especially if one is prone to a fetish for the hip and trendy that is standard for any bar or lounge that graces Belltown or Capitol Hill.Īs you enter, the decor doesn’t make you feel privileged just to have your eyeballs grace it – nor does the atmosphere drench you in an oasis of hipster chic.
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