Thunderbird Tavern

Rabbits welcome. Food is great. Backyard garden is my favorite. The foliage is mature and lush. I also love the Monday Night Football Free Board.

If you want a dive bar with sports on and decent beer for fair prices, come here. Service is good, too, and it feels like a locals' place. What isn't good? Well, the $3 secret sausage, while flavorful, did a number on me -- so skip that if you're now an adult with a picky GI system. Bottom line: Come on in, grab a seat and a beer, and enjoy the locals. Skip the sausage.

Over the course of being in Seattle for four days I've been four times. A great place to have a cheap pint. They have about 15 varieties and some bottles. Drinks are about $5 each and are nice full pints. The staff is very nice and come to you quickly. The pool table is only 75 cents. Everyone here has been very friendly even though it's a dive bar. They have a great ginger ale/beer too for the non drinkers. Secret sausage is served here. $5 for the secret sausage , served "Seattle Style" with a hot link and cream cheese. Their firlander sauce brings the heat on it too. For $5 you get the dog and some kettle chips. Great place to hang out, as the TV is on too. Cheers!

Dude! I'll take any place in Seattle with a good atmosphere, friendly people, amazing service, strong - heavy pours, delicious food and an incredible outdoor patio. Seriously, as a Seattle native, how have I not been here before.

We met up with my recently transplanted ATX_YELP buddy to hang at her favorite Seattle dive bar. The Thunderbird is your quintessential dive bar. It's dark, There is a variety of music on the jukebox, drinks are strong and cheap, and of course you need a pool table or two. Be aware when you enter the bar you will get the once over form the regulars. Not to worry as everyone is pretty darn friendly. The T-bird is a great neighborhood dive bar that would be a perfect hideout (Cat ;^) ) to have a few cocktails on the down low....

I just moved to Seattle from Austin last Friday, and my first order of business was finding a great neighborhood bar like I had in Austin. The bar should have Norm Peterson-like regulars, cheap drinks and a good jukebox. And, well, Thunderbird fits the bill.I've been here every day this week so far, and have already made a lot of new friends who are starting to feel like family. My standard well vodka soda drink only costs $3.50, just like it does at Hideout Pub in Austin, and I can manipulate the jukebox to fit my tastes with the TouchTunes app.The only flaw here is the lack of parking (only a few spots on the side), but I can always park in the nearby neighborhood and walk it, or just take Lyft. This is because the snooty strip club next door isn't willing to share its spots but is more than willing to encourage their patrons to take Thunderbird's spots. I have yet to try the food, but I have no doubt it will surpass expectations, turning the trifecta from my first paragraph into a quadfecta. To note, Hideout Pub in Austin also has great food, so this newfound quadfecta is a natural progression. The night crowd is a little different than the happy hour crowd, but not in a bad way. What I mean is, I have yet to be approached by a creeper at Thunderbird, unlike at a select few other Ballard area bars who shall remain nameless. But, there's always tomorrow night.

Service is awesome as the staff is super friendly. The food is cheap and just really good. The happy hour is probably the cheapest in Ballard. It's nice to get away from the bars that like to charge $8 for a well whisky when you can come here for cheaper drinks and a no frills bar. It's not flashy but it's friendly and that's what makes this place worth 5 stars.

Heavy pours and reasonable labor. Observed some ladies of the evening coaxing up other bar goers. What a night!

This place had all the markings of a typical dive bar. There were plenty of TVs to watch sports and a couple of pool tables. The interior was dimly lit with more tables and seating in the back. It was a neighborhood bar with a lot of locals and frequent barflys.Their website said that their happy hour is from 4-7pm but when we arrived at 6pm the bartender said it was actually 4-6pm. She told us though that "it's not happy hour but our stuff is cheap anyway" which was a funny exchange and gave us a chuckle. She was right though because wells were $5 and the Moscow mule was $8 (although it was just okay).We played pool, watched some TV, and just hung out. It was a cool vibe.

Classic dive tavern that is slightly up scale and clean. It was nicer inside than I expected and they served beer. If it was closer to me then I'd be back more often.