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2222A Second Ave. Seattle, WA 98121

206-441-5449

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Seattle Weekly
Recommended
Best Place to Play Pinball
Award Winner 2011

Cuisine(s): Bar Food

Hours: Daily 12pm-2am

Price: $
Payment Types: MasterCard, Visa, cash

Features: Patio/Sidewalk Dining, Takeout, Private Party, Banquet Facilities, Wheelchair Accessible

Serving: Dinner, Late Night, Lunch
Alcohol: Full bar

Reservations: Not Accepted

Parking: Street

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Where else can you have your pick of cheap beer - from Hamm's to PBR - and play arcade games like Big Buck Game Hunter, all under the watchful gaze of velvet clown portraits and carnival-themed murals? With a hot dog-only menu, Shorty's keeps it real in a neighborhood obsessed with swank. The dogs come with green relish, jalapeños, onions, cheese dribble, and Mama Lil's Peppers (goat horn peppers soaked in garlic olive oil and rendered so damn hot they can probably burn through the lining of your stomach, but, hey, you only live once). The Spicy Pepper Cheese Dog-like all specialty dogs available as a regular ol' hot dog, a German sausage, or a veggie weenie-is the crown jewel of the Shorty's collection.

2011 | Best Place to Play Pinball

If the Seattle Pinball Museum in the International District somehow lucked its way into a liquor license, it would take this honor. But because it hasn't, probably never will, and also doesn't serve the city's best vegan, Chicago-style hot dog, the slipper best fits Shorty's, Seattle's clown-and-carnival-themed pinball mecca. Shorty's has more games than any other Seattle bar (between 15 and 18, depending on what's out of service at the time), and also more history--as the host of an... More »
2008 | Best Place for Grown-ups to Play Vintage Arcade Games

Those with coulrophobia (an extreme fear of clowns) shouldn't even come within spitting distance of Shorty's, but if you can get past the freaky carnival theme and the clown dolls staring you down from every nook and cranny, it's the best place in town for kids of drinking age like myself to play Ms. PacMan for hours on end without a passel of screaming brats ruining our playin' mojo. Even if Shorty's wasn't a bar, the mural alone--a horrific cartoon of an escaped circus lion hunting a... More »

Shorty's Kicks Ass, and So Does Kick-Ass

By A.J. Tigner | Fri, April 23, 2010

The Dinner: A "Number Three" at Shorty's Coney Island. The Movie: Kick-Ass at Big Picture Movies at 2505 First Ave, in the basement of El Gaucho. The Screenplate: I should start here by saying tha... More »
Taking Direction

By Laura Cassidy | Wed, January 19, 2005

EVERYONE'S A CRITIC—and everyone else is a critic of the critics, so I get lots of e-mail. Some are fraternal, relating experiences similar to ones I've recently shared; and some are hostile, implying, as one did last week in response to my recent... More »

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seattleweeklybestof | Seattle, WA | 62 Reviews

| Wed, May 6, 2009

Those with coulrophobia (an extreme fear of clowns) shouldn't even come within spitting distance of Shorty's, but if you can get past the freaky carnival theme and the clown dolls staring you down from every nook and cranny, it's the best place in town for kids of drinking age like myself to play Ms. PacMan for hours on end without a passel of screaming brats ruining our playin' mojo. Even if Shorty's wasn't a bar, the mural alone�a horrific cartoon of an escaped circus lion hunting a shrieking clown�would likely be enough to send the under-10 set packing. Hell, it even gives me the heebies. But Shorty's isn't the best only because it's a bar and must ban minors to stay in business. It's the best because of its sizable wall o' video games in the front room�Ms. PacMan, Galaga, Donkey Kong, Target Terror, Mario Bros., and Big Buck Hunter Pro among them�not to mention the 16 pinball machines in the back room, better known as "Pinball Cove." And at the universal price of 50 cents per play, it's almost possible to pretend that it's still 1991, our president is, uh, Bush (dammit!), and you're eating that Shorty's cream-cheese hot dog on your parents' dime.�Sara Brickner
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fionncycle | Seattle, WA | 9 Reviews

| Fri, October 23, 2009

Clowns, cheap beer, pinball, cream cheese hot dogs. 'Nuff said.
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Troubador | Seattle, WA | 5 Reviews

| Thu, March 18, 2010

crowd is very emo, but the pinball is fun.
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