Rob Roy

Chiho brings actual izakaya spirit, communal small plates and Japanese whisky, to a Seattle dining scene that usually reaches for Pacific Northwest seafood instead of borrowing from Tokyo.

The original marquee is still intact from 1914, a repurposed theater turned cocktail lounge that has quietly watched over a century of Belltown change from the same room.

Screwdriver keeps the neighborhood bar formula simple, cold beer and strong cocktails delivered with the kind of easy Pacific Northwest friendliness that makes a first visit feel like a fifth.

Roquette pours French classics with Pacific Northwest polish, proof Seattle’s cocktail scene can go full Parisian without losing its own accent.

Cyclops has survived Belltown’s relentless gentrification with its bar art and its irreverent soul fully intact since the 90s, one of the few places in the neighborhood still recognizable to itself.