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Barking Dog Alehouse
Overall: Good    Score: 70 / 100
705 NW 70th Street
Seattle, WA 98117
United States
(206) 782-2974
Listed Since: January 2004
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Awesome! Awesome! Awesome! Awesome! Awesome!
Barking Dog hits the nail on the head! These guys provide a great service at a great price. The atmosphere is warm and friendly, the food is delicious and the beer is expansive.

Write Your Review Reply to this Review Report Review Seattle, WA
(03/21/2008)
Beer Quality Beer Selection Food Service Overall
Awesome! Awesome! Awesome! Great Awesome!
Great family restaurant and great menu with great beer. And, we can walk to it. I like the recently expanded menu too, with more veggie options. Have been going there since it opened and it never disappoints.

Write Your Review Reply to this Review Report Review See more reviews from Scott Scott, Seattle, WA
(04/24/2007)
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Great Great Good Lousy So So
I live nearby, too, and rarely go to Barking dog. It's way too slow, way too echoey (that beautiful hard concrete floor, bare walls, bare tables, they all bounce the sound around) and a bit overpriced. It's disappointing because I want to like it, I was looking forward to having a neighborhood pub I could hang out at. But I just never feel comfortable enough to hang out. It's a shame.

Write Your Review Reply to this Review Report Review See more reviews from terri terri, Seattle, WA
(02/15/2007)
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N/A N/A Awesome! Lousy Good
I agree that the service is pretty slow, but the lobster bisque is so incredible that I keep coming back.

Write Your Review Reply to this Review Report Review Seattle, WA
(12/15/2006)
Beer Quality Beer Selection Food Service Overall
Great Awesome! Great Lousy So So
We live near Barking Dog and we really want to like it. We have tried going for breakfast, dinner and just drinks. Unfortunately, after about 8 times dining there we keep arriving at the same conclusion: this place doesn't care about good service. I wonder if they discuss this at employee meetings... "Hey, Tina, how can I further alienate the customer?" "Well, Joebob, I like to throw the napkins down at the customer after they've asked for them and silently stalk off." or "How many times did your customer have to come to you to get their drinks or the bill?" "Three times! That's nothing, mine had to ask another server!" Anyway you get the picture. It's a real bummer cause this place has potential for perfection, if they could just get some real service. A sidenote--if you've seen High Fidelity, you have an idea of the service there. Some people are treated ok, if they fit whatever niche the waiters approve. If you cross their invisible line though, watch out, or thinly veiled hostility will ensue.

Write Your Review Reply to this Review Report Review See more reviews from Karen D Karen D, Seattle, WA
(05/06/2006)
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Great Good Good So So So So
This place seems to be hit or miss. The 1st time I went (Friday night) everything was great, including the service. The second time I went (Sunday lunch) the food was just OK and the service was terrible. Lunch took 1-1/2 hours...over 10 minutes just to get a menu, food took forever, and waitress never once checked on us. I had to hunt her down to get the bill. I doubt I'll be going back, there are just too many other places that I enjoy in town. Sad, because it is a pretty cool place with good beer.

Write Your Review Reply to this Review Report Review Seattle, WA
(01/30/2006)
Beer Quality Beer Selection Food Service Overall
Awesome! Awesome! So So Good Great
I'd like to add a bit of sanity to the reviews. If you find the wildly strong emotions from the previous reviewers normal, then you might want to ignore this. However, if you tend to not have violently strong emotions to an eating establishment,as I do, read on. The beer selection here is probably the best in Seattle. A nice Northwest selection that you don't find elsewhere. When you're tired of Mac & Jack's, Sierra Nevada, and Mirror Pond (beers I love by the way) and you want something different, this is the place to go. Same goes for wine. Tired of Columbia Crest and Hogue, this place has some nice off the beaten track options. Scotch Whisky too. Everything said about the food is true. It's disappointing, but I don't always go to a pub to eat. As for service, I haven't noticed anything amiss so I guess that means the service is pretty standard.

Write Your Review Reply to this Review Report Review See more reviews from Daranee Daranee, Seattle, WA
(12/22/2005)
Beer Quality Beer Selection Food Service Overall
Awesome! Awesome! Awesome! Awesome! Awesome!
Can't say enough good things about this place. Dunno about the knocks on the service; waitresses have sat down with us, told us their life stories, made us worry they were coming over later and we hadn't vacuumed. I'm not kidding, either. The Ahi+wasabi salad is fantastic, good lobster bisque, vietnamese sandwich (yes, they call it that), solid pizzas, highly adequate philly cheesesteak, great specials, totally decent pastas. Awesome scotches, always good belgians (and served in proper glasses, no less), always good local micros on draft. Too much pressboard, cheesy decor, some ass-biting hard chairs/benches, some cheesy customers overly affected by the mirror. But, man, I *love* this place and there's always something that bugs a curmudgeon like me. I almost didn't post for the sake of crowd control.

Write Your Review Reply to this Review Report Review See more reviews from Tom Tom, Seattle, WA
(04/17/2005)
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Good Good Good Lousy Lousy
This place is owned and operated by the same two miserable, unhappy aggressive people that own Freds Rivertown Alehouse in Snohomish. Good food, good beer, but incredibly bad wait staff that must get their attutudes from the ogres that run the place. Why waste your money and time here- go somewhere where they will appreciate it.

Write Your Review Reply to this Review Report Review seattle, WA
(02/18/2005)
Beer Quality Beer Selection Food Service Overall
Awesome! Great Great Great Great
Finally, all three things came together; beer, food and service. I have been here numerous times and for some reason things did not seem to gel. This time was different. Even though the place was busy, service was great. That may be the key. They have a nice selection of Belgian drafts and a great selection of Belgian bottles.

Write Your Review Reply to this Review Report Review See more reviews from Bob Morseburg Bob Morseburg, Seattle, WA
(02/15/2005)
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Awesome! Awesome! Awesome! Great Great
The last reviewer must not have been to the Barking Dog recently. Pizzas and food in general has always been amazingly good when I've been there (and that's alot). This pub seems to always be busy, but I have never, ever been dissapointed with the service. I give it a 10 all around!

Write Your Review Reply to this Review Report Review Seattlle, WA
(01/29/2005)
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Good So So Lousy Lousy Lousy
Save your time and money as THE BARKING DOG is howling to be put out of his misery! Go to one of the other true pubs in Seattle's north end or one of its many great restaurants. This place only survives because it is truly the only establishment in a quiet residential neighborhood deemed a "restaurant" and can therefore offer hard liquor or beer and still allow customers to bring infants, toddlers and children. Too bad the food is awful, parents deserve more.

We gave it The Barking Dog 3 tries because of its location and advertising, but it failed miserably in the pub food category on each occasion. The pizza's crust was actually like cardboard and the toppings and taste were below any chain home delivery type, and worse than some frozen supermarket pies. The appetizer platter was equally disappointing. This dish was served with extremely tiny portions, including a bit of salmon, a few grapes, a minutia of tapanade and just 3 small, single slices of mediocre bread on which to spread everything, even though we had 4 people and were obviously sharing a snack. When we asked for some more bread for the spreads, the slow, sloppy waiter grunted and brought 1 more single slice! The 3rd strike was a French Dip sandwich served with an exceptionally small amount of meat, bread not fit for dipping and overly salted au jus.

AVOID this overpriced place unless you have no taste buds and you seek out small children crying, and toddlers reaching for things on your table, while eating BAD food and enduring untimely POOR service. By the way, the atmosphere is not particularly pub-like: the contemporary hardback chairs and furnishings look more like a cold lobby bar in an airport hotel; nothing charming, warm, particularly comfortable or interesting except the color of the wood. The barking dog is obviously barking for more, not sleeping in peace after a satisfying bite and a fine pour.

If you're in this neighborhood, hit the Reading Gaol Pub & Grill just a couple of blocks south or Hale’s Ales a mile south instead.

Write Your Review Reply to this Review Report Review See more reviews from Kibby Sheigh Kibby Sheigh, Seattle, WA
(01/15/2005)
Beer Quality Beer Selection Food Service Overall
Great Great Great Lousy So So
I've been to the Barking Dog 6 or 7 times now, on different nights of the week. And while beer (and scotch) selection are great, and the food is shockingly good for a pub, they just can't compensate for the conisstently lousy service. Staff is slow, no matter the time of day or day of week, and never exceptionally nice to make up for it. On one occasion, a server was outright rude. So, while i love the food and beer/liquor menu, I just can't keep going there.

Write Your Review Reply to this Review Report Review seattle, WA
(01/09/2005)
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Awesome! Great Great So So Good
Beer selection and quality were great. Food is very good. The only detraction is the slowness of the service. On a day that was not very busy, the server found other places to be or wished to be.

Write Your Review Reply to this Review Report Review See more reviews from Bob Morseburg Bob Morseburg, Seattle, WA
(07/18/2004)
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Great Great Great Good So So
The fact that they advertise 10 oz pours of Belgian beer at high prices and only give a shy .25 liter pour (less than 8-1/2 oz.) is a big turn off. Get twice as much Chimay at Stumbling Monk for the same price.

Write Your Review Reply to this Review Report Review Seattle, WA
(07/02/2004)
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N/A N/A So So So So So So
The servers were not so attentive, and that detracted from a true neighborhood feel. I prefer the 74th St or Prost in the Phinney neighborhood. Sorry, Barking Dog...get your servers to be a bit more friendly, then I'll return.

Write Your Review Reply to this Review Report Review See more reviews from Gin Gin, Seattle, WA
(06/04/2004)
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Great Great N/A Great Great
21 beers on tap, 15 of them local craft beers, 5 belgians and 1 cask. I will certainly go back for lunch or dinner, the menu looked very interesting.

Write Your Review Reply to this Review Report Review See more reviews from Dave Dave, Tumwater, WA
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