"For better or worse, you can’t write a guide to Seattle dives without plugging the Baranof. This grungy, nautical-themed Greenwood bar got a new owner and a subsequent facelift in 2023, and olden-time Seatttleites might mourn the updates to the interior—it’s a little cleaner, there’s new flooring, and the doors close in the restrooms now. But dry your eyes, because they still open at 6 a.m., they still have karaoke (Wednesday through Sunday, with bingo on Monday nights instead of Saturday mornings), and that legendary 13-hour happy hour is still a go. Most importantly, the clientele is still as profoundly, breathtakingly drunk as ever." - Meg van Huygen
