A classy looking watering hole, auspiciously named the Beveridge Place Pub, lies on California Avenue Southwest in West Seattle. It's on the corner of Beveridge Place, a half block north of the big intersection of California and Fauntleroy Way SW. The block isn't very impressive looking, as there's a large public housing apartment directly across the street (an absurd circular thing that fairly screams "institutional"); plus, flanking the pub, a downmarket bar and a perfectly good but modest looking family-owned video store.

But inside Beveridge Place Pub, it's a whole 'nother story. Great craft beers, nice decor, and a relaxed atmo. Like a place you'd find in the increasingly spiffed-up Alaska Junction business district, a.k.a. the West Seattle Junction. Here's where you come for a good wheat ale in a smoke-free environment, as opposed to the cancer ward with Bud and gambling next door.

Anyhew, it's crispy hot in Seattle as I write, and the chalkboard sign on the sidewalk outside Beveridge Place Pub today said it all: "Beer. You. Now."

Indeed.

Posted by Matt Rosenberg at July 30, 2005 05:56 PM