Dante's

Dante's Monday Night Karaoke

It’s a shame Dante’s in the U-District only offers karaoke on Monday nights, because they have the best stage for crooners in town. There are two levels that open up to the bottom floor where the mic is set up - singing your favorite tune on a packed night with people from all sides looking down cheering you on will make you feel like a star. The show is hosted by KJ Josh with Absolute Karaoke, who has the biggest song selection around. Get there when it starts and you’ll have a great shot at singing at least three times that first hour. The bar offers $2 Wells, $3 Jell-O Syringe Shots, $5 Touchdowns, and Wash Apples. JEFF ROMAN

Price: Free

Those people who claim the University of Washington lacks a consistently great bar within walking distance of campus-and there are many-have never been to Dante's. A self-proclaimed "U-District Tradition since 1966," the bar's air hockey, pinball and pool tables skirt a massive dance floor, overlooked by a DJ booth that's always spinning something good. Ted Bundy used to party here, a fact that the bar celebrates with a wall full of clippings near its entrance. The cavernous, medieval-looking bar also dedicates an entire room to Dante's Inferno-themed mementos. Dante's kitchen seems to consist of nothing more than a deep-fat fryer, and is the sort of place a newly-minted 21-year-old can "puke and rally" with impunity. After midterms it's not unusual to find a throng of engineering students on the bar's upper level ringing in the occasion with a round of boat races. Not boat races with mere cups of beer, but boat races in which each racer must consume an entire pitcher by his lonesome. That's hardcore. That's college. That's Dante's.

• Cuisine(s): Bar Food

  Hours: Sun 12pm-2am, Mon-Sat 11:30am-2am

• Features: Multi-Level

  Entertainment: Live Entertainment, DJs

• Alcohol: Pitchers

  Parking: No Parking