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The back bar at The Neighbor Lady in Seattle, copper shelves stacked with whiskey and a hand-painted Order at the Bar sign

Central District · Midtown Square

The neighborhood's second living room.

A public house on 24th Ave. Patterned wallpaper, a lamp on every table, a pool table in the back, and someone behind the bar who already knows what you're having.

The Room

Dark wood, damask, and a lamp on every table.

The Neighbor Lady is a neighborhood room first: patterned walls, low amber light, and the kind of evening where a first pint turns into three because nobody rushed you out.

Up front: tall harlequin glass, wooden tables, a bar you can lean on. In the back: felt, cues, a pinball machine, and a chalkboard that turns the whole place into a trivia team on the right night.

  • Pool table
  • Pinball
  • Team trivia nights
  • Patio on the plaza
Players at the pool table in the back room, surrounded by red and gold damask wallpaper
The front room with tall stained-glass harlequin windows and wooden tables
Pinball machine beside the blue curtains and damask wall
Regulars along the bar at night under colored glass pendant lamps
A pint on the worn wooden bar top at The Neighbor Lady

The Bar

A board that rotates, and a Rainier that never leaves.

Happy hour daily, from open until 6pm.
Ask at the bar for what it covers today.

On draft

  • Rainierthe constant
  • Local microIPA & pale
  • Something darkporter or stout
  • Something sourwhen it's on
  • Ciderdry

Ten-odd lines, and the rest of the board changes. Whatever's pouring today is chalked up behind the bar.

Cans, bottles & wine

Tallboys and ponies in the cooler — the usual domestics alongside a couple of imports. Wine by the glass: a white, a red, a rosé and something with bubbles.

Behind the bar

Three copper shelves of whiskey, rye, tequila and gin, poured into cocktails that come out bright green or deep purple depending on the night. Seltzer and shots if that's the evening.

Ask what's pouring

The board rotates. Order at the bar; the bar itself is 21 and over.

Fried chicken sandwich with pickles and hot sauce on a soft bun, a pint behind it

The Kitchen

Food that holds up to a fourth pint.

Fried chicken piled onto a soft bun with pickles and enough hot sauce to matter. Bar snacks that arrive plated like somebody in the back actually cared. Nothing precious, just good.

Kitchen and cocktail menus are printed and change with the season. Call the bar and we'll tell you what's on today.

Two crisp fried croquettes under a blizzard of grated parmesan with pickled mustard seed and pea shoots
Two cocktails, one bright green and one deep purple, set against the bar's black and cream damask wallpaper

How we'd put it

You don't make plans to come here.

You just end up here.

Find Us

On the plaza at Midtown Square.

Corner of 24th and Union, in the Central District. Look for the carved wooden sign and the tables out on the deck.

The Neighbor Lady

1133 24th Ave, Unit Q
Midtown Square
Seattle, WA 98122

Hours

Closing time shifts with the season, so instead of printing a table that goes stale we keep the live one on our Google listing — it's always today's.

Happy hour runs from open until 6pm, daily — it's on the board behind the bar.

Today's hours on Google

Good to know

  • Order at the bar, no table service.
  • The bar itself is 21 and over.
  • Pool and pinball in the back room.
  • Patio seating on the plaza when the weather allows.

Not sure what's on tonight? Give the bar a call and we'll tell you.

The Neighbor Lady's entrance at 1133 24th Ave with the carved wooden sign and people on the deck
The Midtown Square plaza filled with neighbors on an evening, tables in the foreground

Bringing a crowd?

Give the bar a heads up.

We don't take reservations — walking in is the whole idea. But if you're bringing a group, a heads up lets whoever's behind the bar know you're coming.

Or just call: (206) 420-4374

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