Shorty's — Restaurant in Seattle

I am not the type to normally leave reviews, especially bad ones.

I’m a bartender and have been for years. Trust me, I have daytime fantasies about being as entitled, condescending and dismissive as the bartender I experienced today was able to act:

You’re living the bartender dream buddy, acting as terribly as possible knowing that it won’t affect your livelihood.

Bold move…

Tonight I experienced what I personally perceived as a hateful intolerance of gender. It’s unclear to me if the rudeness was because I was a woman or because I’m a straight woman, I’m still so perplexed by it all. Regardless of my own sentiments, I was at times singled out by gender and would heavily deem this place as an unsafe establishment for females, god only knows how they would treat multi pronoun individuals… (not sure if that’s the correct phrasing, but at least I’m trying to be more considerate than this bar).

Overall my review is:

poor customer service (friendly ONLY TO MALE PATRONS) sticky floors buttons in machines improperly serviced (& the staff does not care to even try to solve problems). dong friendly, that’s low key a bonus

Wow!! What an amazing dive bar with great beers and a vibey environment in Belltown. They had really down to earth bartenders who have worked there for 15+ years who had a lot of positive energy and passion about the business. I've been to several dive bars and this honestly made the best impression from all the ones I've visited in queen Anne, Capitol Hill, u district, Greenlake, and Belltown. This is a pretty cool place to grab a beer and hang out with friends, they have a ton of pinball machines and bowling games. NEGATIVE: Bouncer. Terrible. Be aware, bouncer is on a power trip and very disrespectful. The bouncer was extremely rude and unnecessarily aggressive to all my friends and even went as far as to threaten to punch my friend in the face and continued to make violent remarks out the door as we were leaving. Note: We were all sober and had came in just to grab a beer so this was not a drunken misunderstanding. I spoke to the bartender who was very understanding and genuinely concerned. I just want to say the bouncer is not a reflection on the establishment ALTHOUGH they should look into to replacing him. I've worked in the industry and bouncers are usually very firm and friendly, even the introverts. There is no need to be rude...

If you want an arcade and pinball experience done right, save your souls and go to Vidiot in West Seattle! I don’t know if the bartenders are being run into the ground or if they are all apart of a Debbie Downers fan club but the blonde with a beanie and blonde with dreads are about as exciting as a used napkin. The short blonde with a neon green beanie was rude and void of any positive energy until, what seems, a friend of hers showed up and she dropped what she was doing to go chat him up at the end of the bar. The neon green beanie woman had the patience of a house fly and handful of judgmental facial expressions that would scare a young child. The hot dogs are no better then any of the boiled sewage water dogs you can find anywhere else in the city and the dread lock blonde had about as much energy you could pump out of a dry well. Maybe the agenda of this measly dive bar is to hire woman with a docile, inpatient and rude attitude but it crash landed on my night and encouraged me to never recommend this “bar” again. Heard they are going under and I couldn’t imagine why lol. Hope these awful bartenders move on to greener pastures but they would probably spoil that too. Avoid this place, save your soul and pay the extra few dollars to go to Vidiot in...