Retro Restaurant & Lounge

While visiting Seattle, I was looking for a more laid back, low key bar to grab a few drinks. We found the Retro restaurant near downtown that's a bit of a "hole in the wall." Do not expect upscale or even moderately; but for drinks, bar food/ small bites and a quick game of pool, it's a nice stop. We had nachos and regular non-crafted cocktails.

The homemade chili is very good. Just a suggestion! Ask for sour cream if that's what you like. It is a bit spicy.

A great local bar with "home cooked" meal food. To start, the atmosphere is lively and there are tables as well as bar seating. The drinks were crafted perfectly and the service was spot on. As far as the food goes, the mozzarella sticks were fresh and crunchy, the meatloaf slider (my favorite) were delicious and the taco salad was a good portion and fresh. Overall, no complaints here. There is a pool table in the back as well as a juke box. If you wanna stop in for a couple drinks or some bites, it's a good low key choice.

I usually try to find a good dive bar when traveling. Sometimes it's a hit, sometimes it's a miss. Retro was out of the park. The food was so good at amazing prices. We had a party of six and we're seated immediately with our drinks ordered. The cheese sticks and onion ring apps were very good and some of the best onion rings I've had in a long time. The chowder was so good with tender whole clams and hunks of potatoes, defiantly homemade with fresh ingredients. The burger was huge on a soft, sturdy bun. Even well done as I like it was tender and juicy. My wife had the fish n chips that were tender and perfectly fried with homemade tarter sauce. Local beers on tap were cold and tasty. Service was friendly and spot on with great tunes playing in the background. Find another place where dinner and drinks for six is well under $200. Love, love, love!!!

I love dive bars and as rule seek them out, but generally they have something awesome that draws you in. This place wasn't dive bar status just a place with bad food, terrible drinks and even worse service.

Not good, as soon as you walk in you are hit with that sewage smell that seems to be in a lot of places by the harbour but this was overwhelming, could have just been the day. Server was very nice and prices were very reasonable but the food was crap. I had the club sandwich with the greens salad. Sandwich was ok but barely any chicken. The "greens" salad was very bitter romaine lettuce, that's it, no other veggies. I asked for blue cheese dressing and my friend got ranch, you couldn't tell that either of our lettuce had dressing at all it was just like creamy nothing. She had quesadilla, small portion but it is on the small plates menu. The place was kind of dirty too, maybe try a burger if you go, the people next to us had burgers and they looked good. No pics sorry.

We checked Yelp for the nearest dive bar and this gem was in walking distance from our hotel and post dinner at the Hot Pot place... too full to eat more but thirsty for a Stoli Blueberry in soda with lemon. Cozy and quaint. Felt safe inside when someone came in unruly. The walls are decorated with famous paintings, movies and musicians. This place is the longest living old bar in Seattle.

I'm not going to lie when we came up to this place and saw a mostly empty restaurant on rainy Monday afternoon, my partner and I almost immediately started looking for other places to eat. Not because this place was creepy or anything but because it just felt like a bar for locals and older guys getting their beer on. After a couple minutes of anxious scrolling we gave up and were like fuck it how bad can it be.We sat and ordered our food, chatted for a bit and slowly succumbed to the charm of this place. The bartender took our order and was extremely sweet and kind to us, something I'm realizing there is absolutely no shortage of in Seattle. When the food came I lunged at our mozzarella sticks and unintentionally did one of those cinematic cheese pulls trying to split the damn thing in half. That bite was heavenly. It was such velvety cheese. So, so delicious. Our burgers after were a wonderful compliment and we sat there just staring at each other with full bellies. I noticed the pool table behind us and the waitress mentioned it was free so we waddled over to the back and I had my partner order us a beer. I had so much fun. This place will now live as a memory of "the good days".

Overall pretty mid/average place. The lowest rated in our Seattle tour for sure. Beef taco salad was underwhelming, burger was decent, and onion rings were okay. We were one of the only folks in the place, very chill. Attentive and kind waitress. Just not great food flavors. Wouldn't recommend.

Stopped in here for lunch on a Monday around noon. There was only one other person in there and I was relieved because the more touristy areas were packed. There was only one server working but that seemed fine since there was only two total parties there but I'm not sure what would happen if there were a few more people.The food was pretty tasty. We had nachos and a plate of fries to share. The nachos were a little lacking in cheese for my preference but there was plenty of other toppings and sauces. The fries were perfectly seasoned and a great texture. I didn't have any alcohol so I can't say how good those options would be. But I recommend giving this place a try if you want to go a little out of the way of the tourist areas.