Featured review · Woodinville
The Shed: wine country from four floors up
The SOMM hotel's forest-inspired rooftop is the best reason to stay in Woodinville past your last tasting.
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Downtown · Review
Phocific Standard Time: the cocktail bar hiding above Pho Bac
Vietnamese cocktails up a staircase behind the pho counter. No reservations and two dozen seats, so come ten minutes early.
Pike Place · Review
The Nest, reviewed: Elliott Bay's best sunset seat
Watch the ferries cross while someone brings you a martini. Reserve or regret it.
Pioneer Square · Review
Smith Tower Observatory Bar: drinks at 462 feet
The 1914 elevator is half the experience. Go at blue hour, order the Prohibition menu.
Capitol Hill · Review
Terra Plata's rooftop garden, an hour before sunset
Earth to plate, herbs growing at your elbow, and the best paella on a roof in this city.
Downtown · Review
Fogo de Chão's Next Level: steakhouse first, rooftop second
The downtown churrascaria hides a rooftop lounge above University Street. Skewers optional, caipirinhas mandatory.
Downtown · Review
Frolik happy hour: downtown's easiest rooftop
No line, no reservation, $8 cocktails from 3 to 6. The fifth-floor patio nobody talks about.
Patio season 2026
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Everett
The MuseCoffee by day, whiskey by night, on the waterfront.
U District
The Mountaineering ClubThe rooftop everyone keeps telling me about.
Belltown
The BrimCoffee at the Edgewater, right over the water.
South Lake Union
ALTITUDE Sky LoungeSixteen floors up at the Astra Hotel.