Barnes & Noble Downtown
This is now the biggest seller of new books in downtown Seattle. Thanks a lot, Jeff Bezos.
600 Pine St
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-264-0156
Pike Pine Retail Core
206-264-0156
Paper Hammer
Paper Hammer sells plenty of handmade stationary items, and it's all beautiful stuff. If it's made out of paper and you want it, they've got it.
1400 Second Ave
Pike Place Market
206-682-3820
Pike Place Market
206-682-3820
HoneyHole
Serving big, sloppy hot sandwiches, HoneyHole will quiet any stomach grumbling for comfort food. For your grumbling liver, they also have a semi-tiki-themed fu…
703 E Pike St
Seattle
206-709-1399
Seattle
206-709-1399
Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum
A members' library with events open to the community.
93 Pike St #307
Pike Place Market
Pike Place Market
Left Bank Books
This wonderful ultra-leftist bookstore has been in the Pike Place Market forever. It's run by people who REALLY MEAN IT, as in the store is operated by committ…
92 Pike St
Pike Place Market
206-622-0195
Pike Place Market
206-622-0195
Comet Tavern
The Comet’s done a fine job of getting people drunk since 1948. More recently—for a long time—it was a place to see hearing-impairing punk bands, get beer spil…
922 E Pike St
Seattle
206-322-9272
Seattle
206-322-9272
Athenian Seafood Restaurant and Bar
The food is nothing to write home about, but it's worth shoving your way through the Pike Place Market tourists gawping at fish to get to the old-school, unfan…
1517 Pike Pl
Pike Place Market
206-624-7166
Pike Place Market
206-624-7166
Seattle Mystery Bookshop
Seattle Mystery Bookshop is one of the last bookstores left in Pioneer Square, which used to be the city's literary district. It's the best resource in town if…
117 Cherry St
Pioneer Square
206-587-5737
Pioneer Square
206-587-5737
Chin Music Press
This is the office and storefront of local publisher Chin Music Press, which produces beautiful novels, art books, and non-fiction.
1501 Pike Place #329
Pike Place Market
Pike Place Market
Crescent Lounge
Seattle's venerable Crescent Lounge is a seedy, wonderful dive with a colorful host of regulars and the best karaoke on Capitol Hill.
1413 E Olive Way
Capitol Hill
206-565-8827
Capitol Hill
206-565-8827
Elliott Bay Book Company
This is a place to browse big titles and local zines, research, hang out, curl up in a corner, meet up with friends, buy gifts, and marvel at the architecture.…
1521 10th Ave
Capitol Hill
206-624-6600
Capitol Hill
206-624-6600
Emmett Watson's Oyster Bar
The place’s motto is “Beer, Wine, and Food for Thought, Est. 1978,” and while the whole place is great, the small bar in the back is the greatest. Oysters on t…
1916 Pike Pl, Ste 16
Pike Place Market
206-448-7721
Pike Place Market
206-448-7721
Big Little News
This newsstand and bottle shop has taken the place of the former space of the vintage store No Parking on Capitol Hill. According to Capitol Hill Seattle, the …
1102 E Pike St
Seattle
Seattle
Pioneer Square Saloon
An old-fashioned-looking saloon. It isn't "sceney," but it still draws in a crowd that likes to party. A nice alternative to the sometimes overdramatic P-Squar…
73 Yesler Way
Pioneer Square
(206) 628-6444
Pioneer Square
(206) 628-6444
Central Saloon
This is Seattle's oldest bar, and it knows how to party.
207 First Ave S #1
Pioneer Square
206-622-0209
Pioneer Square
206-622-0209
Twice Sold Tales
Twice Sold Tales is a Capitol Hill institution. It's home to a brilliant collection of used books, and also cats. You'd better not be allergic to cats.
1833 Harvard Ave
Capitol Hill
Capitol Hill
