![]() I’m also a fraud as a Seattleite because I had never been inside the fucking Smith Tower until last week! PARTIALLY not my fault because it was closed to the public for ages and then only the restaurant and observatory were open for a while, but no one really knew when? Still not cool. It’s original to the building’s completion in 1914 and was supposedly funded by the last empress of China-that would have been Dowager Empress Cixi, who died six years earlier in 1908, but okay?-and it was a rentable events space until 2016 when it was transformed into a luxe bar-resto. ![]() (I only say “actually very good” because this isn’t a Sk圜ity-at-the-Space-Needle tourist trap situation, despite it being easy to imagine.) Up on the 35th floor, at the base of the penthouse pyramid, this opulent space was once, for decades, known as the Chinese Room. That’s why, when I saw that the historic Smith Tower offers a monthly cocktail class, I snapped it right up.Īfter a revamping in 2021 and some initially spotty opening hours, Pioneer Square’s iconic Smith Tower now has all kinds of cool shit going on, including its actually very good lounge, the Smith Tower Observatory Bar. And I sure as shit didn’t know that they’re correctly called Hawthorne strainers. Until last week, I wasn’t even totally confident about how to use one of those curly springy strainers. Look, I may write a column about cocktails, but I’m a total fraud who has never worked at a bar a day in my life.
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