2222a 2nd Ave, Seattle, WA
$, Games!, Outdoor drinking, Tattoos, DJs, Late nite eats, Veggie friendly
Shorty’s appeals to child and punk rocker in all of us. The pinball gets a solid B+, with its mixture of vintage games and classic mid-90s Williams machines (including the ever maddening Adam’s Family). They appear to pay their maintenance bills, as games are always in good playing condition. Best of all, you can drink yourself silly while sampling all the options (note to those who like to drink alone!).The service is appropriately to the point and your fellow drinkers tend to share a love for booze more than any other characteristic, though the crowd is more middle aged punk and less Belltown big-panted.It’s hard to evaluate Shorty’s food. At the end of a night of drinking, there’s nothing more appealing than a solid veggie dog, complete with all the fixings (including an atomic green relish). The dogs go down easy, too. I’ve had three on some nights. At this point, I have nothing but enthusiastic praise to offer. It’s only later that questions arise. Perhaps it’s on the walk home, or maybe later falling asleep, but almost certainly by morning the life saving edibles will have turned into a gastro-intestinal knife fight. All in all, it might be a fair trade. It doesn’t stop me from returning, eventually.