November 9, 2009
This place is lucky they got a total of 38 from me. The atmosphere isn’t horrible, but it’s not all that great either. The food is OK, but can be overpriced. One reviewer likened this place to Applebee’s. I concur when it comes to the dishes. The reason I gave the TAPHOUSE such a low grade was because of the beers. The selection isn’t huge by any means and when thinking of a taphouse you’d think of good choices and a place that knew how to pour a beer. Unfortunately this is where it gets bad. Hefeweizens are clear. Let me repeat this so it will sink in. Hefeweizens are CLEAR. This is just an absolute atrocity. Also, when pouring a beer a nice thick head (for brews that apply), should be maintained. Not the TAPHOUSE. They attempt to fit as much liquid in a glass as possible while pouring off what helps make a beers flavor and smell. Finally, if you order something other than a Heineken prepare to wait. Because they have so many taps on the wall the bartender has trouble actually finding your beer. I once waited half an hour before I got a Hoegaarden because the bartender couldn’t find the correct tap. I could go on and on, but honestly if you’re a beer lover and are looking for a good atmosphere to enjoy a few pints, avoid this place like the plague!

October 7, 2009
If you took a respectable beerhall and inbred it for a couple generations in a polygamist cult, you’d get something resembling the Taphouse. Atmosphere is a sexed-up Applebee’s where the trinkets on the wall have been swapped for a LOT of beer taps. Inevitably with a list that long there are a few remarkable beers to be had. But this is a place for people who want to drink overpriced "safe" beers, perhaps branching out bravely into their first Tripel once already drunk. Meh...

October 1, 2009
With so many taps how could the selection be bad. Well they have so many safe beers that the selection of great beers suffers. The bartenders are not that knowledgeable as they should be and sometimes a little arrogant. You might pay 10 bucks for a beer that you could find in a neighborhood joint for 6. This is kind of a tourist trap.

September 4, 2009
In town for a wedding and staying essentially next door. Had to go out with cousins to their swanky-type bar so I had to go here toesrds the end of the night (thankfully my one cousin is a lightweight and could only last out until 1130). So anyways, the place. You walk into a very nice carpeted entry room to go downstairs. I liked the setup a lot, A+ to the designer. There was a cool wavy bar facing the equally curved wall of 160 taps to the right of coming down the stairs. The dining room was quite large and noisy with some smaller rooms on the sides for a more secluded big group. Also if you swung left from the stairs you had pooltables nice new ones too. Everything was nice, neat, and new looking, which sounds great but this almost felt forced. Maybe it was the crowd (there was some comic or video game conference and man was there way too much star wars analysis happening 3 years removed from anything associated with the series). I loved the layout but it somehow wasn’t working for me but I’m giving it the nenigit of the doubt there. As for the food I only had a reverse happyhour Cabot roll and it was quite good . The service was slow, but it was packed and the bartender couldn’t take 3 orders wo a deuche saying your favorite, or your finest ipa, or suprise me, she was getting ticked about that. But she did knock a beer or two off the tab for bearing with the nerds all around me. Lastly, the selection 160 beers on tap! A lot of them nw hop bombs. Loved it!

August 21, 2009
Okay. I am a hop head to begin with and when I visited this place it wa "IPA" week with 40 IPAs on tap. Frickin heavenly. The service was decent and the menu was also average but the IPA/APA/DIPA selection was pretty much legendary. Okay, so you have to pay for the good stuff but being from the other coast I was willing to lay out the shuckles. It was (again) frickin awesome. To quote Peter Griffin "This house is freakin sweet"!

July 12, 2009
Stopped in and had Yeti, Pliny, La Folie, and The Duchess all for $4 a glass. Happy hour was great. Good deal on the food aswell. A ton of good stuff on the wall of taps. Along with a nice line up of Seasonal.

June 19, 2009
Nice spot in downtown Seattle. The tap display is very impressive. Need to ask for the seasonal list to get the more interesting stuff. Wait staff was nice but it’s a big place and service was kinda slow. I would venture back...

May 21, 2009
I can easily complain about this place due strange vibe, trendy architecture and poor staff. But the fact remains that it has 160+ taps of mostly craft brews and some that I don’t know anywhere else to drink on draft in Seattle - stuff like Rogue Shakespeare. The appetizer menu is funky and sufficient. No character, but enough beers from around the world that would only disappoint the ultra-beer geek, which some of us are!

May 3, 2009
crowd was very young, and more like a meat market than anything else, they had over 160 on tap, and all on the beer menu i had already had, this really is not my type of place but more loud and ’yuppyish’ for my taking. since that i had already had all on the menu, i asked the server if there was anything else that was ’newer’ and she produced a list of about 12 beers. she even printed out the stats on the one that i chose, seemed very knowledge able on the beers being served and on the new ones. overall a lot of beer, a lot of noise, but overall a decent place to have one or two beers.

March 11, 2009
Too the jaded northwesterner beer fan, I’m sure this is a fairly pedestrian setup but when you live on the eastern side of the US and you can’t get draught offerings of the some of the best beer brewed in the USA, this is an excellent bar and grill with 160 taps available for consumption. I had the privledge to stay a block from this smorgasbord and it gve me the opportunity to samble rare and excellent brews. The beertender was pleasent, knowledgeable, and helpful. The sushi was great and 30 second trip back to my hotel room couldnt be beat.