King's Hardware
Bar · Ballard
5225 Ballard Ave NW, Seattle, WA 98107
Highlights
Skee-ball, burgers, slushies, and a dog-friendly patio
Skee-ball, burgers, slushies, and a dog-friendly patio
"King’s Hardware in Ballard is less of a restaurant and more like a debaucherous bar where you can get a full meal of decent pub snacks. Said debauchery is powered by copious amounts of taxidermy, a rowdy patio, spiked slushies, and your friends' competitive aggression when they catch a glimpse of the Skee-Ball machine. Gather everyone out on a bunch of shoved-together tables and order a round of tater tots, chicken tenders, and cheeseburgers." - aimee rizzo, kayla sager riley, gabe guarente
"The Deal: $10 For Cosmopolitans, Boilermakers, Margaritas, Rainier Pitchers, And Green Tea Shots; Discounted Snacks For a fun place to hang out with friends or coworkers, King's Hardware is a good bet. Simple pleasures there include the tater tots, which are on a special happy hour platter alongside fries and onion rings." - aimee rizzo, gabe guarente
"One of Ballard’s most fun places for dinner features taxidermy, huge baskets of buffalo wings, boozy slushies with rotating flavors (hope for mango lemonade), and not one, but two Skee-Ball machines. While you can stay inside with your dog and enjoy the dive-like surroundings, their patio has enough room to pad around if you and Woof Blitzer need some fresh air. " - aimee rizzo, gabe guarente
"King’s Hardware is an extremely lively and very dimly-lit bar in Ballard with taxidermy, huge baskets of onion rings, a solid burger, rotating alcoholic slushies (hope for watermelon vodka or mango lemonade), and two skeeball machines. On weekends, it’s packed with just the right amount of people so that you’re not hearing crickets or feeling like a ball in a ball pit." - Aimee Rizzo
"If hanging out while playing skee-ball, eating fried bites and burgers, and drinking watermelon vodka slushies doesn’t sound like an extremely fun birthday to you, keep scrolling. If it does, you can do all those things at King’s Hardware, one of our favorite classic Ballard bars. And if it’s nice out, you’re going to want to hit the back patio, where there’s more natural light and a separate bar." - aimee rizzo
