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Match: Argentina/Austria, June 22, 10am. Tom’s Watch Bar is located directly south of Climate Pledge, and apparently on Center grounds, as they’ll occasionally show up on the Seattle Center events calendar. Normally on Mondays they open at 4pm, but today they opened early for the World Cup. I’m not sure this happens for all weekday games. When I walked in around 10:10 they already had a couple dozen patrons, and easily doubled that by the end of the game. The place is all ages. The best thing about TWB is it’s huge and full of screens, so you could easily imagine during the third round of group games, when two games are airing simultaneously, they could show both no sweat. I got semi-lost trying to find the bathrooms (SW corner, btw). The sound and video are also good here, as was the service. The bar seats were slightly padded, which is better than most, but the bar had no footrest, which is a weird and uncomfortable choice. Now for the bad part: food. I’d been warned their food was salty. So why did I order the loaded tots? I was thinking I’d pick something easy. How can one screw up tater tots? Well, add salty bacon, and salty queso, and oh, hey, why not salt the tots as well? I know why places add too much salt in general (better taste, and makes you buy more drinks, for starters), but this was ridiculous. I should have gone with the Caesar salad, but they probably would have skipped the anchovies and kept the salt. It was early, so I just drank a Diet Pepsi. And 3 waters to offset the salt. Probably your safest bet is to stick with drinks only here, and generic ones at that. KEXP’s Gathering Space is way more comfortable, and the food at the Armory is better, which says just how unimpressive the food is here. submitted by /u/Worldly_General_5672 |
