Celebrating Pride, CHS stopped by Pony for a drink on a sunny afternoon. Timmy Roghaar has been bartending at Pony for a year now and this is his first bartending gig ever. “I’m also a drag queen,” Roghaar informs us while making our drink. “I go by Strawberry Shartcake and I’ve been performing for about three years now. You can catch me at R Place about once a month and at the Palace in Georgetown,” Roghaar says. Continue reading
Eleanor
Jamie Lutton is a familiar face behind the counter of Twice Sold Tales. You may recognize the cats as well. While four cats live in the store, they aren’t really anyone’s specific pets. “They’re actually here to keep mice out of the building,” Lutton tells CHS. “There are lots of rats and mice because they eat the scraps from Dick’s… their job is to make sure we don’t have any trouble like that.” Continue reading
Greg Clark was behind the bar at Soi when CHS stopped by for a cocktail.
A video game programmer and avid gamer, he’s between projects at the moment, but at the top of his game when it comes to creating cocktails.
The Superstar is a recent innovation with apple brandy, O.F.T.D. (an overproofed rum,) orgeat (fortified almond milk), topped off with lemon, lime, saline, and Angostura bitters, served over a single cube. Continue reading
Heather Strock has owned Broadway’s Canary Salon for almost six years. If you’ve had your hair cut there in the past year, you’ve likely seen Cali, the two year old, excited but super sweet, pit mix. Now found lounging in the lobby area, Cali was formerly at the Seattle Animal Shelter in Ballard for more three months. She is a well behaved dog who can fist bump on command. Give it a shot. It’s fun. Continue reading
Corey Reed has been a bartender on Capitol Hill for more than eight years, having worked at Grim’s for two and now DeLuxe Bar and Grill for the past six. When he’s not serving you booze, he’s hanging out with his Corgi, Archer, which he says is “my favorite part of my life.” Salt Lake City makes an appearance in this cocktail, as Reed prefers High West Double Rye as the base for his Old Fashioned. “A little sugar, we use Toschi cherries, Angostura Bitters, orange peel, muddled, on the rocks” is his recipe and CHS highly recommends taking it outside to enjoy the sights and sounds of northern Broadway.
I drank this on Capitol Hill is a semiregular photographic tour of some of Capitol HIll’s best cocktails and libations. Have a suggestion for something we should drink? Let us know in comments.
Delsey Huitt had her hands full in Cal Anderson with her fairly new-to-the-family pup, Aggie. No, not named because of the Texas Aggies, but because “I was going to name her Maggie, but one day I decided to drop the M, and Aggie was born,” Huitt says. Gentle and sweet, Aggie is a year and seven months old mix of German Shepherd and something else. A rescue from Seattle Humane, Aggie has only been with Huitt for about two months, so give her a pet, and don’t mind her whimpers, she’s an “excited crier.” Continue reading
Moises and Bernardo
Moises Santos is a 24-year-old programmer, food truck designer, and immigrant from Oaxaca, Mexico. His food truck holds down what seems like prime territory — the pot purchasing and stoner friendly parking lot at the Central District’s Uncle Ike’s. The truck is not run like a pipe dream but, instead, puts to use a fat pipe of bandwidth and crunches datasets of Seattle to make business decisions like how much carne asada he might serve up on a Tuesday.
“We’re a pretty innovative culture, we’re hardworking people,” Santos tells CHS as he stands by a corn roaster of his own design.
While the corn roaster is a first run concept, the food truck is a state-of-the-art restaurant on wheels that took two years to design and manufacture.
“It’s an artificial intelligence food truck,” Santos said. Continue reading
The Roanoke brought Weston on as a bartender about a year ago, but when he’s not serving regulars he “drinks at other dive bars and walks around Alki.” Weston’s favorite cocktail to make at the moment is a Maker’s Mark Manhattan with dry vermouth, a cherry, and bitters. “The gal that owns the place is real big into cocktails, she’s been pretty on me to learn stuff, so I’ve been trying to figure it out.” You’re well on your way, Weston. Continue reading
Aaron was crossing Broadway when CHS spotted the giant floofer by his side. Kevin, a lab/Pyrenees mix can often be found with Aaron at his store, Likelihood at 11th and Union. Kevin has his own instagram @KevinTheShoeDog, but if you want the real life thing, you can always go in for some petting.
We ask photographer Alex Garland to follow marchers in the rain and do crazy things like trying to make yet another picture of yet another huge apartment building look interesting. We thought we’d ask him to do something a little more fun. Capitol Hill Pets is a semi-regular look at our furry, fuzzy, feathered, and finned friends found out and about on Capitol Hill.
Oddfellows was a warm, inviting space, on a cold Capitol Hill day. Morgan, a well known face behind the bars of Pettirosso and the Unicorn, has been managing the restaurant since August. When she’s not keeping things moving at Oddfellows, she is an artist, a writer, and a screenprinter. The drink of choice was the Boozy Hot Cocoa made with a standard pour of Powers Irish Whiskey, house made chocolate syrup, and house made marshmallows. After mixing the liquids slowly, the marshmallows are heated, placed on top, and covered with a dusting of chocolate. Continue reading
