Earl's on the Ave — Restaurant in Seattle

Aggressive, deliberately confrontational, and unprofessional door staff. Several door staff (3-4 employees) came out from INSIDE of Earl's to aggressively confront our group in the STREET as we were walking past on our way to another bar.

Visited Earl's with a group of friends, one of whom is Canadian. Our Canadian friend presented an Employment Authorization Card as an ID to the door staff. The employee glanced at the card before motioning our friend out of line without saying a word. After several other people had entered the bar, our friend asked him for an explanation, to which the employee responded with "we refuse the right to refuse service to anyone", with no further explanation.

A manager eventually came out to explain that Washington State does not accept EAD cards as a valid form of identification, despite the EAD being an identification document issued by the federal government. However, as he was very professional and courteous we did not argue the case and left Earl's.

After doing more research on valid forms of identification in Washington State and finding online that the EAD is listed as a valid stand-alone document by the Washington State Department of Licensing, our friend approached the doorman and asked if they could see the manager again. The doorman was very dismissive, said that he would not call the manager, then got up and went into the bar. At that point we left to go to another bar.

The REAL issue was an hour later, when we left the other bar and walked past Earl's again to get to our next location. All of us remained on the street and at no point attempted to enter Earl's property.

As we walked by, our friend made eye contact from the street with the doorman who was INSIDE Earl's. Without any provocation, the doorman, as well as several other bouncers, then came OUTSIDE of Earl's to confront our group in the street, cussing at us and coming to within a foot of our faces. All of this happened on the sidewalk, as we were walking away from the bar.

It is deeply concerning that Earl's staff deem it appropriate to pursue and confront people outside their premises, especially in such a belligerent manner. This behavior not only hurts the reputation of the establishment but also raises serious questions about the staff's suitability for serving an international clientele in a diverse city...

I've been here many times and let me start off the bat by saying this is the first time something like this has happened to me and I do not think it is normal. About 45 minutes ago I try to go to this bar to meet some friends, as usual. I get to the front door and don't really notice a bouncer, more of a dude smoking a Juul out front so I assume the guy is inside, but no turns out this guy is the bouncer. He stops me asks for my ID, the usual and immediately looks skeptical. Two things to note I have much longer hair since the picture, and a strong limp due to some pain that makes me limp right now. He initially tells me I can't go in, but after some back and forth he lets me in if I promise not to drink. Now I had no intention of not drinking but figured might as well go with it and said okay. Got inside, met my friends, drank some beer, he sees, immediately asks me to leave. Now I did ask why, the reason being that I'm drunk, but okay, I'll let it be and leave. I don't know what gave off this impression, but I was very capable of handling myself (especially in relation to other people there). But I figure this small thing they did to me warrants this small thing...

Most Discriminatory experience I've experienced in my life. Asked for pitcher and made small talk with tattooed white bartender about her having frekles n me recently finding out I have red hair n frekles because I have Irish descendent. She said your cut off on beer go. I told her if I was tall n attractive that would just be bar small talk I'm not drunk I'm confident this will be my first drink of the day and went to give her the money . Then two guys pushed me out n she pepper sprayed me in the face I was shouting in pain for about half a hour n even called the ambulance. We are all sinners . Our money is green too. I have a alcohol license and am a chef . N that was going to be the first pitcher of beer I was going to have with another short under payed discriminated Mexican cook as we wait for laundry. Justice will...