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1721 1st Ave. S. Seattle, WA 98134

206-264-2428

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Best Good-Time All-Day Happy Hour
Award Winner 2008

Cuisine(s): American, Bar Food, Traditional
Hours: Daily 2pm-2am
Alcohol: Pitchers

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One of the city's best-kept secrets that's hiding in plain sight, this sophisticated, working-class watering hole has retained its personality (peanuts on the floor, darts on the wall) and familial ambiance (Starbucks execs bellied up alongside construction workers) amongst mass-market neighbors like Safeco Field and Showbox Sodo. It could be the most crowded, insufferable shouting match in town. Instead it's pleasantly tight, and joyously raucous when it should be.

2008 | Best Good-Time All-Day Happy Hour

Like the name suggests, Hooverville keeps it simple: free peanuts, shells on the floor, cheap beer, and friendly bartenders. In fact, the bartenders are so friendly that you actually feel like you're somewhere else (sorry, rest of Seattle), or maybe in a simpler era. Named after a shantytown that occupied this neighborhood, and many others around the country, during the Great Depression, Hooverville is open every day from 2 p.m. to 2 a.m. and boasts both pinball and darts. The bar doesn't... More »

First Call: Hooverville, After the Fire

By Chris Kornelis | Wed, January 27, 2010

The Watering Hole Hooverville, the best bar in town for people who like peanuts, beer, the Mariners, the Black Crowes, or who work at Starbucks headquarters down the street.The Barkeep Sean McAteer, who says, "When I was younger, I liked brown ale... More »
Here's Rye in Your Eye

By Maggie Dutton | Wed, October 01, 2008

There's something about the time, the weather, or the giant pink exploding elephant that is our financial system that has me craving whiskey. I have two ways to drink whiskey: bourbon to celebrate and rye to forget. I'm not the only one. Rye whisk... More »
Life at Hooverville, Home Depot's Menu, Great Guinness Head at Home

By | Wed, March 05, 2008

At Home at Hooverville This SoDo bar takes its name from the shantytown that occupied its space (and many more that populated the country) during the Great Depression, named for (and blamed on) President Hoover. This two-year-old spot has the lo... More »
To All the Whos in Hooverville

By Maggie Dutton | Wed, June 28, 2006

In Seattle in the 1930s, hundreds of shacks stood from Harbor Island to First Avenue South. The men who built those scrap lumber, cast-off tin, and flattened oil drum shacks were casualties of the Great Depression—formerly upstanding blue-collar w... More »

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seattleweeklybestof | Seattle, WA | 62 Reviews

| Wed, May 6, 2009

Like the name suggests, Hooverville keeps it simple: free peanuts, shells on the floor, cheap beer, and friendly bartenders. In fact, the bartenders are so friendly that you actually feel like you're somewhere else (sorry, rest of Seattle), or maybe in a simpler era. Named after a shantytown that occupied this neighborhood, and many others around the country, during the Great Depression, Hooverville is open every day from 2 p.m. to 2 a.m. and boasts both pinball and darts. The bar doesn't have a set happy hour because, in the words of one bartender, "It's always happy here." I'll say. You can get pints of Pabst or Rainier all day long for $2.50. Simple cocktails are always $4.75. The well liquor, by the way, is decent: Jose Cuervo tequila, Bacardi rum, and Jim Beam whiskey. And they just started serving pizzas, 11-inch pepperoni-and-sausage, Hawaiian, or four-cheese pies that serve two for just $10. Now that's good times.�Aimee Curl
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ameier | Seattle, WA | 58 Reviews

| Tue, June 29, 2010

Love Hooverville before a show at the Showbox. You can eat peanuts and just throw them on the ground! So awesome.
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Debbie250 | Seattle, WA | 71 Reviews

| Tue, February 23, 2010

You got to love a place where you can throw peanut shells on the floor, but you're not afraid to drink from the tap.