‘Tis the season to be with family, friends and loved ones, but who says that means you have to stay home? We’ve compiled a list of places in Seattle that are open Christmas Eve and/or Christmas day. If you know of a spot that isn’t on our list, leave it in the comments. Happy Holidays!
Anchovies & Olives:
Christmas Eve: 5pm-12am
Andaluca:
Christmas Eve: 6:30pm-9pm
Christmas Day: 7am-12pm, 3pm-9pm
Art Restaurant:
Christmas Eve: no happy hour, open 6:30am-2pm,
Christmas Eve Dinner 5pm-9pm (reservations recommended)
Christmas Day: 6:30am-11am, 12pm-8pm
Bastille Cafe & Bar:
Christmas Eve: back bar will be closed however, they are serving
traditional French Christmas Eve feast – reservations only
Cafe Campagne
Christmas Eve: 11am-4pm
Canlis
Christmas Eve: opens at 5:30pm
Daily Grill:
Christmas Eve: 6am-11pm
Christmas Day: 6am-11pm
Del Rey
Christmas Eve: opens at 4pm
Christmas Day: opens at 8pm
Elliot Bay Brewing:
Christmas Eve: 11am-7:30pm (growler fills for 50% off!)
Feedback Lounge
Christmas Eve: 4pm-2am
Christmas Day: 4pm-2am (Limited menu, Unlimited rock)
Hattie’s Hat
Christmas Eve: 11am-2am
Christmas Day: opens at 8pm with DJ’s and dinner specials
Julia’s on Broadway
Christmas Eve: 8am-11pm
Christmas Day: 9am-11pm
Lombardi’s
Christmas Eve: 11:30am-10pm
Maximillien:
Christmas Eve: 10am-3pm. Closed for Dinner.
McCormick & Schmick’s:
Christmas Eve: all locations 11:30am-2am
Harborside Lake Union Location:
Christmas Day: 11:30am-2am
Oliver’s Lounge:
Christmas Eve: 11:30am-2am
Christmas Day: 11:30am-2am
Po Dog’s:
Christmas Eve: open until 3pm
Ponti:
Christmas Eve: open 4pm-11pm
Ruth’s Chris
Christmas Eve: 6:30am-10pm
Christmas Day: 6:30am-10pm
Salty’s:
Christmas Eve: 11am-8pm
Six Seven Restaurant:
Christmas Eve: by reservation only
Christmas Day: by reservation only
Zayda buddies:
Christmas Eve: 11am-9pm
Christmas Day: 4pm-9pm
This list is NOT all encompassing, if you know of a spot we are missing, drop us a line in the comments. We’ll keep adding to the list as the info continues to trickle in.
When it comes to giveaways this one has been really enjoyable!
1st we got the opportunity to give away a gift card to an amazing Portland Restaurant.
2nd we got to co-host this giveaway with said amazing restaurant’s amazing bar manager: Jacob Grier.
3rd so many of you have been so adamant about how BADLY you want to win this GC (see comments from last week’s post).
With the delicious happy hour at Carlyle, we could definitely be persuaded to just keep the Gift Card and enjoy it ourselves, but alas, we’ll have to give it away as promised.
2nd Runner up and winner of a GoTime.com T-Shirt is: ( TBA – it’s one of the folks that signed up for our newsletter and I don’t want to broadcast their email address here… you know who you are!)
1st Runner up and winner of a GoTime.com Prize Pack is: Adrienne – Adrienne you left a comment on our Carlyle Happy Hour Spotlight, and you WIN! We’ll be dropping you a line shortly so you can claim your prize!
And the Grand Prize winner of a $50 Gift Card To Carlyle is: Vanessa @themonkeysknow – Vanessa, you did just about everything you could to win this prize and it paid off! Well done! Drop @gotime_portland a DM with your mailing address and we’ll get that GC sent your way!!
Congratulations everybody! If you haven’t signed up for our newsletter yet, please do so! You’ll be the first to know when our next giveaway is kicking off (very soon) and get great details on all the amazing happy hours in your city. Until next time… Cheers!
It’s one thing to offer ordinary food at happy hour (you know typical bar eats), but Carlyle takes it one step further by offering extraordinary food with a happy hour discount. Can’t top that! For the more expensive taste you’ll get $3 off a couple pricier menu items like oysters and muscles but not to worry for those looking for something a bit more standard. If you hadn’t heard, Carlyle’s burger was recently highlighted as Portland’s “Best Burger in Town” by PDX Plate and at happy hour you’ll be happy to give it a try for just $8!
The Burger will pair nicely with any of their happy hour beer and wine, but since you’re saving your dough on the happy hour food, why not give some of their signature cocktails a try. Bar Manager Jacob Grier crafts beautiful cocktails like this:
Thyme in a Bottle
made with Bombay Sapphire, Famrigoule thyme liqueur, maraschino liqueur, and lemon juice and this:
Horatio
made with Krogstad aquavit, Cointreau, Fernet-Branca, and orange bitters.
Grier, a recent transplant from Washington, DC, left the nation’s capital and its emerging coffee scene to make you (and Portland) cocktails! Not only does he bring the experience he acquired running a weekly craft cocktail speakeasy out of his Arlington apartment to the bar but he brings it to his current project: Liquidity Preference… Why’s this important you might ask? Liquidity Preference is helping us host a giveaway for a $50 GC to Carlyle!
If the $5 burgers aren’t up your alley Chef Jake Martin makes a wide array of dishes that will, all of which is easily affordable, when it’s FREE! Entry into our contest is E-A-S-Y and you can enter more than once to up those odds!
1 Entry: leave a comment on this blog post
1 Entry: RT any of our tweets about this giveaway
2 Entries: Follow Carlyle on Twitter
3 Entries: leave a comment on Jacob’s Blog Write Up about this giveaway
5 Entries: Sign up for the GoTime.com Newsletter where you’ll get notices about cool happy hours around town (like Carlyle) and more giveaways to come!
Good luck and come on back this Friday to see if you’re our lucky winner.
Carlyle Happy Hour
Mon-Fri 4pm – 6:30pm
Food:
$3 off select menu items with purchase of a cocktail including: Hand Ground Hamburger, Seasonal Oysters on the Half Shell, Puget Sound Mussels, Welsh Rarebit, Cheese Plate, Calamari Fritti, Butter Lettuce Salad, Soup du Jour, $22 Charcuterie Platter; $10 Cattail Creek Lamb Sheperd’s Pie; $5 Marinated Olives; $3 French Fries; $3.50 Bread Service
Drink:
$3 beer, $4 wine
Our favorite foodie Kate Opatz takes us along for the ride on her dining adventures:
Jelly Bar is wonderfully dark. Dark enough, even, to forget how dismal it is outside. It’s separated from Long Provincial restaurant (the new-ish sister restaurant of Tamarind Tree) by a couple of stairs and a glowing tank of jellyfish.
Happy hour happens daily here, from 4-6. On Sunday through Thursday it repeats from 10-midnight and on weekends it’s 11-2 am. To eat a full dinner from the extensive happy hour food menu would be an easy task. There are spring rolls and noodle soup, chicken wings and a banana blossom salad with soft-shell crab. Prices vary but are uniformly reasonable.
And the drinks, you ask? Well, there are deals on those, too. Any drink made with Stoli, Jack Daniels, or Bacardi is $4. The wide-ranging house cocktail list isn’t discounted during happy hour, but considering the food prices, you might be able to splurge.
Jelly Bar Happy Hour
Daily 4pm-6pm, Sun-Thu 10pm-12am, Fri-Sat 11pm-2am
Food:
Happy hour food menu including spring rolls, noodle soup, chicken wings, banana blossom salad with soft-shell crab
Drink:
$4 Bacardi, Jack Daniels, Stoli, Bacardi wells
Editor’s note: This blog post was written by a GoTime.com Guest Blogger. The author is solely responsible for its content.
Our guest blogger, Inna, takes “Snapshots of Seattle” and has taken a snapshot of List’s happy hour for us!
In the mood for half-priced happy hour food in Belltown? List it is!
List is a simple and sexy little restaurant in Belltown with one amazing Happy Hour!
I’ve only had a bottle of wine there once, but it was a delicious Italian red. Something that stood out on my first visit was that they didn’t mind me enjoying the happy hour food (the octopus salad, in fact) without ordering any drinks. One of these days I’ll have to try one of their signature cocktails, however, because I tried a sip of one recently and it was delicious.
The food specials: The cheapest plate during HH is $3 and the most expensive is $7.
I can’t yet speak for all the dishes they serve at List, but the most memorable so far has been the gnocchi with black truffle cream. I also recommend the white wine clams, grilled octopus salad, and grilled ahi tuna.
Oh, and make sure you stop by the bathroom at some point during your visit.
Two words: Heated seat!
List Happy Hour
Daily 4-6:30 pm
Sun-Thur 10pm-12am
Food:
1/2 off food
Drink:
$14 bottle of red or white wine
$3.75 wines by the glass
$2.95 beer on tap
Editor’s note: This blog post was written by a GoTime.com Guest Blogger. The author is solely responsible for its content.
How do we love you all? Let us count the ways… Hundreds of you participated in this weeks giveaway either by
Following Oliver’s Lounge on Twitter
RT’ing our tweets about the giveaway ( a few of you more than once)
or leaving comments on our Oliver’s Happy Hour Spotlight
and we loved reading what everyone had to say about Oliver’s. Your excitement to try something new is just what we were hoping for, and essentially, the whole point! We want to bring you the best happy hours in Seattle and keep you informed on the awesome deals around town, Oliver’s complimentary apps at happy hour, is one of those deals.
Without further adieu and, using this handy Truly Random Number Generator, our 2nd runner up and winner of a GoTime.com T-shirt is:
Graylee we want you to know that WE KNOW you always participate in these giveaways and we appreciate it! Sorry you didn’t win the big guy this time, but you’re getting closer! Drop us a DM with your mailing address and we’ll get that T sent your way!
Our 1st runner up and winner of a GoTime.com prize pack is:
Congrats and thanks for playing! Drop us DM with your mailing address and we’ll get that prize pack sent your way!
Last but not least, our winner of the $50 Gift Card to Oliver’s Lounge at Mayflower Park Hotel is:
Woooo hooooo!!! We have been big fans of Mandy’s Blog for some time now, and you definitely deserve to finally win! SO EXCITED! Maybe you and your date night accomplice can plan your next date night at Oliver’s. Drop us a DM and claim your prize!
I love this giveaway! All of the winners are always so awesome about playing along… see my friends it eventually pays off to get entered to win. To all of you other loyal tweeters, blog readers, followers, and GoTimers we appreciate you too and YOU will be next… one of these days. Big ups to Oliver’s Lounge for helping us host this giveaway. Get in there, get a martini, and enjoy some free nibblies – tell them GoTime.com sent ya!
Did you know back in ’76 a law
was repealed enabling peo
ple to look through windows into bars from the outside? Oliver’s Lounge was quick to jump on board, installing 24′ windows. They did this not just because they wanted to be the 1st bar on the west coast to do so (which they were), but because they genuinely care about their guests and making their time at this luscious lounge as appealing as possible.
One thing that’s helping maintain that appeal is the happy hour, where complimentary apps are the big feature. Yes I said complimentary, as in FR
EE. Get in there, get one of their famous martinis (or award win
ning cocktails), and get a plate to enjoy all the delicious little bites they have to offer. How many spots in Seattle can honestly say they give ANYTHING away for free now–a-days? With the economy in the state it’s in, I’m surprised McDonalds hasn’t started charging for ketchup! And yet… dear sweet Oliver’s stands true with their tall gorgeous windows and their complimentary appetizers at happy hour. Located adjacent to the Mayflower Park Hotel lobby, somehow this lounge remains a hidden gem in the backyard that is Downtown Seattle. A delightful treat.
Just when you thought the free giving spirit was limited to only the happy hour, Oliver’s is stepping up their game! You know the drill, 3 ways to enter and we’ll draw the winner of a $50 GC to Oliver’s Lounge in the Mayflower Park Hotel at the end of the week! GOOD LUCK!
Enter to win by:
- Following Oliver’s on Twitter
- RT’ing any of our tweets about the giveaway
- Leave a comment on this post!
Oliver’s Lounge Happy Hour
Mon – Fri 4:30 – 6:00
Food:
Complimentary Appetizers
Another successful giveaway and we can’t thank you all enough for participating. If we could make everyone winners we would! And hey, with the amount of giveaways we have in the works, hopefully each of you will get your chance at being our winner… but today, there can only be one.
Or three if you count the runner-ups:
Our 2nd runner-up and winner of a GoTime.com T-Shirt (modeled so kindly by our super hot ex-intern) is:
JASON!!!
You were the first person to comment on this blog post and the first name we drew!! Congrats! We’ve got your email address, so we’ll get in touch and get that T-shirt sent your way.
Our 1st runner up and winner of a GoTime.com Prize Pack (which includes a t-shirt and this snazzy GoTime mug among other things) is:
Fozziegrrl
Drop us a DM and claim your prize!
And the winner of the $50 Gift Card to The Hi-Life in Ballard is one lucky duck by the name of…
JAMIEOFALLTRADES
You win, you win, you win! Congratulations! Just drop us a DM and we’ll work out getting the Gift Card to ya! Congratulations!
We heart The Hi-Life and their happy happy hour, even if you didn’t win, it’s definitely worth checking out.
In the meantime, we’ve got another giveaway coming next week so stay tuned and if you’re looking for a good happy hour this weekend, you know GoTime’s got the hookup with all the all the happy hours in Seattle!
Lisa Rivera, our loyal guest blogger takes us on an investigation of the comings and goings in Ballard:
Not so fast there, partner! Bit Saloon ain’t quite a goner.
Contrary to reports stating otherwise, The Bit Saloon in Ballard did NOT close down this past Halloween weekend. A call to this Ballard institution Friday night revealed that they plan on staying open, said the on-duty manager, though she couldn’t give a definitive time line as to how much longer that would be. “It’s between me and the landlord,” she said.
Read into that whatever you will, but the bottom line, she said, is that The Bit is living to see another Rainier-fueled night. Happy Hour runs everyday from noon to 7p.m., so get over there while you can still revel in one of Seattle’s last genuine dive bars.
Editor’s note: This blog post was written by a GoTime.com Guest Blogger. The author is solely responsible for its content.
Once a home to Seattle’s finest fire fighters, the Ballard Firehouse revamped into a lovely little restaurant by the name of The Hi-Life in ’05. It’s now home to a happy hour that would make any fire fighter proud.
Bop by on a weekday and your odds are pretty good it’s gonna be happy hour since the specials appear twice each weekday and from 5pm-10pm on Tuesdays. Thus giving you plenty of opportunity to indulge in their $3 wood-fired pizzas, cubanitos, mac-n-cheese, salads and more. Wash it down with a cool tap, well drink or house wine, (all just a measly $3 during happy hour) – and you could walk away with a full on buzz, to compliment your full tummy and your wallet which will still be… you guessed it… full of cash!
Not that you’ll need that extra cash if you win our awesome giveaway. If you hadn’t noticed, GoTime.com recently had a bit of a site makeover. To help launch the new site and spread the word to Seattle, Hi-Life has been kind enough to donate a $50 Gift Card for us to give away! There’s a couple ways to get entered to win:
- FAN The Hi-Life on GoTime.com
- RT any of our tweets about the giveaway
- Leave a comment on this post!
Win or lose, be sure to check out the The Hi-Life happy hour!
The Hi-Life Happy Hour
Mon, Wed-Fri 5pm-6:30pm, 10pm-11:30pm
Tue 5pm-10pm
Sat-Sun 10pm – 2am
Food:
$3 bites and wood-fired petite pizzas
Drink:
$3 drafts, house wine and well drinks
