Hooverville Bar — Restaurant in Seattle

Security was rude and aggressive on 4/1!!! My friend and I had in and out privileges at the showbox sodo from across the street since we’re over the age of 21. The lines for the bathroom were horrible at showbox so we tried running over to this place. I’ve done it in the past, no problem. There wasn’t security either at that time. This time, there was nobody outside to check ID’s either so I had walked towards the bathroom with my friend and security came and grabbed my friend and I and aggressively pulled us outside. He tried to say he had tried to get our attention a few times and shined a light at us which I never heard him or saw the light when I was obviously facing a way where I wouldn’t have seen him since the bathroom is straight in front. I told him to not touch me and showed him my ID and he refused to let us in the bar because we weren’t planning on buying a drink. We were just going to use the restroom. I personally could not buy alcohol. I got deviated septum and sinus surgery a week before to where I still wasn’t able to drink. I also feel like we were profiled because we were dressed...

Came to Seattle from out of town for a concert and afterward found this bar. After my whole family was let in, brother and his wife, myself and my partner, my father, my sister-in-law’s parents, my mother was coming in and realized she only had her credit card with her, not a photo ID. Of course, this is a non issue considering she’s 55 right? We are clearly her children and over 25 right? Nope, the bouncer told her she needed to leave immediately because of course she’s a minor that we’re trying to smuggle into this dive bar for a beer. He was pretty awful to us and I’m extremely disappointed in the way our experience here turned out. He could have spoken to my mother like a person, rather than treating her like a rowdy teenager trying to pull one over on her. I’ve never had anything like this happened to myself or my mother and found the whole thing unprofessional and honestly pretty ridiculous. The place wasn’t very busy and they lost 8 customers, but clearly the customers don’t matter to...

Decent place. Good place to stop on a ride home. It's not what it appears to be... But in a late night in the middle of the week, it is kinda what they try to pretend to be It's kinda interesting. The people who go there on the weekends wish they were the people that go there Wednesday at 1am. If that makes sense. The scotch selection is respectable and warrants stopping by on a quiet night. The beer is good. I need to go there just blindingly high on hallucinogens sometime to see how it glows. If I was in my twenties I'd be enamored with it. But places like the ☄️ just don't exist anymore.... So It's like as close as you get to a dive bar in Seattle. Late on a weekday or Thursday. And if your there then... Tip hard. Girls are lonely...