BTB Advertiser Elliott Bay Brewhouse and Pub will be celebrating its 3rd birthday this Saturday March 6th!

Live reggae from Dub Lounge International starts at 8pm.

Families are welcome and there’s No Cover!

Cheers to a great local establishment!

Elliott Bay Brewhouse and Pub is located at 255 SW 152nd in downtown Burien; phone: 206.246.4211. This family-friendly neighborhood pub offers a full pub menu, large party facilities, tournament-sized shuffleboard tables, along with party platters and beer to go.

More info on Elliott Bay Brewhouse & Pub is available at their website.

Here are a couple of videos of Dub Lounge International to whet your rastaman appetite:

A “Beer Can and Breweriana Show” is coming to the Des Moines Masonic Temple (located at 2208 South 223rd Street in Des Moines) this Saturday, Oct. 3rd from 9am to 1pm.

Hosted by the Rainier chapter of the Breweriana Collectors Club of America, this is a meeting where beer lovers can trade collectibles, get items appraised or just check cool old beer-related stuff out and get thirsty.

“Breweriana” members collect everything from cans and labels, to caps, taps, and even matchbooks. Walk-ins are welcome, and despite the adult beverage topic matter, all ages are welcome and encouraged to come.

Here are the details:

WHAT: “Beer Can and Breweriana Show”

WHEN: Saturday, Oct 3rd from 9am to 1pm

WHERE: Des Moines Masonic Temple, located at 2208 South 223rd Street

INFO: For more information regarding this show contact Carl Scheurman at 253-653-4499, or check out the Breweriana Collectors Club of America website here.

If it’s September, it must be time for the third annual Oktoberfest at Burien’s Elliot Bay Brewhouse and Pub (a returning BTB Advertiser) – that’s right, following in the German tradition, Oktoberfest starts in September! Big difference is that the Germans celebrate for 16 days, into early October.

Elliott Bay’s celebration will take place on Saturday, Sept. 26th.

Michael Goldsmith, General Manager of Elliott Bay, sat down with BTB earlier this week to lay out their plans to be a part of Burien’s Oktoberfest. The aim is to provide the city of Burien and surrounding area with a “family friendly area-wide celebration in the broadest sense.”

“We’re really excited about the music,” said Michael. “We’re presenting live music inside and outside from 2-9pm.”

Here’s a line up of the bands:

• Mellifluous Zephyrs will be playing traditional German Polka music on wind instruments
• Jonathan Kimball will play Folk/Blues and Acoustic
• Sunderlyn, “a powerpop altrock band” according to their website

In addition to the music, Elliott Bay has developed a special Oktoberfest Menu. In the true Oktoberfest tradition they’re setting up beer tents outside with “festival-style tables.” This means that you may have to sit with strangers, but the more you get into the spirit of Oktoberfest, the less strange they might be to you.

Elliott Bay is Burien’s only award-winning brewery, making the beers their customers enjoy right on the premises. Such popular local beers as:

• B-Town Brown
• Highline IPA
• Hop von Boorian

This family-friendly neighborhood pub offers a full pub menu, large party facilities, tournament-sized shuffleboard tables, along with party platters and beer to go. Monday-Wednesday they’re open to from 11am-10:30pm. Thursday-Saturday ’til midnight. The kitchen closes 30-minutes before the doors are locked. On weekends they open up early for brunch at 9:30am. They’ve also got a great happy hour with great happy hour food and beers.

If you can’t wait ’til Elliott Bay’s Oktoberfest, stop by and give ‘em a try. Then stop back on Saturday, Sept. 26th and enjoy the fun, food, ice cold beer, music…and make some new friends!

You’ll find Elliott Bay Brewhouse and Pub at 255 SW 152nd, right at the corner of 4th Ave SW. For more information, call (206) 246-4211 or visit their website here.

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The B-Town Blog welcomes Super Deli Mart, our newest Advertiser!

New owner Min Chung has been in the grocery business since he was young and has vast experience having managed his first store when he was only 17 years old.

Super Deli Mart’s grand reopening was this past Labor Day weekend and it was a big success. He made and sold a lot of Hoagies!

Min welcomes you to Super Deli Mart.

“What makes these Hoagies so good?” we asked.

“It’s the mamu.”

“Mamu?”

Min said “it’s the secret sauce used on the original Hoagy’s Corner sandwiches and we still use the same secret ingredients and we make it fresh daily.”

These sandwiches include:

• The Cheesy British
• The Canadian
• The German
• The French
• The American
• The Italian
• And many others

Min’s Super Deli Mart is unique because they not only have those wonderful Hoagies, but they are now offering full and half size kegs to go with stock on hand and a menu of all kegs offered in the Seattle area!

If you pre-order a week in advance your keg will be waiting for you at a perfectly-chilled 36 degrees.

They also offer a selection of wines at great prices. Buy four bottles, get an additional 10% off and you can mix and match!

Min enjoys a good cigar on occasion so he offers a great selection of premium hard rolled cigars at great prices.

Min grew up in Burien. He grew up eating these Hoagies. He and his father would stop at the store on their way to Vashon Island to fish and fuel up on Hoagies purchased at the same store that he now owns, 22-years later. His lifelong dream is realized!!

Min would like to thank all the folks who stopped by this Labor Day Weekend making his grand re-opening a rousing success. And a special thanks to those who came all the way from Burien to stop in and say Hi.

Super Deli Mart:

9051 35th SW
Seattle, WA 98126
Phone: 206-937-1442
“Call to pre-order!”

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John F. Kennedy High School’s 2nd Annual Wine & Microbrew Tasting is coming Saturday, Sept 19th from 7pm to 10pm, and this 21-and-older event will feature Australian wines and Northwest microbrews.

Light hors d’oeuvres will be served throughout the evening.

Commemorative glasses will be on sale for $5 each, and featured wines will also be available for sale by the bottle.

Tickets are just $25 per person, which includes six 2-ounce tastings (additional tastings are available for $2 each).

Tickets will be pre-sold only and are only available until Friday, Sept 11th. Click here to download a Registration Form (PDF), which you must print, fill out and mail in by Sept. 11th, so hurry up!

A couple of years ago two Irish cousins rolled into Burien to open Mick Kelly’s Irish Pub and Restaurant.

Within just two short years, Mick Purdy and Adrian Kelly were awarded Business Leader of the Year, 2007 by the City of Burien.

Recently celebrating their third year in Burien, Mick and Adrian and their staff have become expert fundraisers for various service organizations, diseases and victims.  Thus far nearly $60,000 has been raised for the following causes:

• Burien Lions Club
• A cancer victim to pay for treatment
• Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation
• Autism
• The family of Deputy Steve Cox
• The victims of Burien’s apartment fire in June (co-sponsored by BTB & Discover Burien)

Mick Kelly’s hosts fundraisers once a quarter.

Giving back to their community is just part of a marketing formula which includes lots of events – these are the guys that gave us a three day St. Patrick’s Day celebration in their first year in business – a fair amount of Irish culture including Irish Dance and dance lessons every Sunday from 6-9pm (with free tuition) and traditional Irish singing on Saturday and Sundays starting at 3pm.

They additionally fill a few seats the fourth Wednesday of every month with local members of Drinking Liberally (a national grass roots progressive social group that gives like-minded, left-leaning individuals a place to talk politics).

Mick’s been in the Burien area for some time and previously owned an Irish Pub in Wallingford.  Adrian came across the great pond a few years back. He literally grew up behind the bar as his family has been in the bar and restaurant for over 80 years in Belfast, Ireland.

Besides the obvious Irish beer on tap (Smithwicks, Harp, Magners Cider, Guiness) they have imports including Newcastle Brown Ale and Stella Artois and eight micros from the Northwest and Alaska, plus both domestic and imported bottled beers. Good to know for those on a budget: Happy Hour prices on beer are reduced by up to $1.25 a pint. Happy Hour times include Sunday-Friday 3-5pm and Sunday thru Thursday 9-11pm. A Happy Hour menu includes sliders, Mexican appetizers, and a few favorites from their regular Irish fare, to name a few.

Ever had a Irish Margarita or Irish Rood Beer? These are just a few of the classic cocktails on Mick Kelly’s cocktail menu.  Or there’s the Martini menue which includes the Belfast Brownie, and the Kelly’s Choc Pop Martini. Their rather extensive wine list includes Mick Kelly’s Private Label wines vinted by Washington winery St. Hiliare and Burien’s own E.B. Foote Winery.

For lunch or dinner, Mick’s offers appetizers, huge salads, homemade soups, clam chowder and chili, pasta, steaks, chicken, pork tenderloin, burgers, sandwiches and nine Irish Specialities including Bangers & Mash, Belfast Supper, Shepherds Pie, Corned Beef and Cabbage, Irish Turkey Dinner, Chicken Potpie, Fish and Chips and Emerald Isle Pie. Mick Kelly’s opens early on Saturday and Sunday where they offer breakfast starting at 7am, and really really good Bloody Mary’s!

They proudly serve Misty Isle Meats, which is environmentally-cultured beef free of antibiotics, added hormones, growth enhancers or anything else that alters what nature does best. Nothing more. Nothing less. Misty Isle Farms’ cattle produce beef products with all the juiciness, tenderness and flavor you expect in a good steak or ground beef.

Mick Kelly’s Irish Pub – a Burien institution in just three years.  Try it, you’ll like it.  They’re located at 435 SW 152nd (right across from the new Burien Town Square – see map below). The bar opens Monday – Friday at 11am and at 7am on weekends.

Adrian Kelly told BTB “it’s fantastic to be a part of the development and future of Burien.  It’s on its way and can only get better.”

We think so too, especially with business leaders like Mick and Adrian.

So click on their Ad, check out their website, and go quaff a pint with these great folks!

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BTB Advertiser Elliott Bay Brewery begins offering Brunch starting this Saturday, Nov. 15th from 9:30am – 2:30pm and continuing every Saturday and Sunday morning.

As all good B-Towners know, there’s nothing better than a good solid locally-made, high-quality brunch to make your weekend, and we highly recommend giving your own local, organically-certified brewery’s a try.

Elliott Bay Brewery is located at 255 SW 152nd in downtown Burien (Street View map below), so we’ll probably see you there!

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Burien’s historic Bison Creek Pizza has been remodeled, and will re-open this Saturday as Bison Creek Pizza & Pub!

The grand re-opening starts at Noon and goes until 2am.

One reason we’re all over this is that we love the history of the place. The building that houses Bison Creek once served as the “Burien Theater” and showed movies from 1957 and continued until the 1970s when the now-gone Lewis and Clark Theaters were built. According to some sources, the theater was popular for its Saturday triple features of low-budget monster movies, Jerry Lewis double features and the classic Beach Party series.

After the projector lights faded for the last time, it became home to a very unique restaurant called “Big Bob’s Pipe Dream” which had a large 1918 Wurlitzer organ that was moved from Seattle’s Coliseum Theatre (now Banana Republic). The Coliseum was owned by the Bullitt family, who owned KING-TV (disclosure: the Publisher/Editor of the B-Town Blog got his first media “gig” at KING-TV’s “Almost Live!” in 1985, and was proud to say he worked there when an elderly Dorothy Bullitt still ran the place). The story goes that one day the Bullitt sisters decided to sell the pipe organ, and “Bob,” who was a TV technician for KING-TV, was interested. The sisters offered it to him, but he thought he couldn’t afford it. Their reply was, “Would a dollar be too much?”

So this KING-TV tech guy buys a big ol’ pipe organ for a buck from the Bullitt sisters and moves it to Burien! The pipe organ allegedly ended up being sold to a man in Oregon, who used parts to build another one.

And now, the former-movie-theater-turned-pipe-organ-joint-turned-pizza-joint is starting anew as a remodeled pizza-pub-joint.

Bison Creek will now have “pub hours” on both Friday and Saturday nights – starting this Sat. Oct. 11th from 10pm-2am (21 and older only), with live music!

The new owners are inviting everyone to come down for the grand re-opening this Saturday starting at Noon until 2am, so get down there, show your support and tell ‘em the B-Town Blog sent ya!

Bison Creek is located at 630 SW 153rd Street (map below).

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Elliott Bay Brewhouse and Pub (BTB Advertiser) will hold its 2nd Annual Oktoberfest this Saturday, Oct. 4th, which will include:

• A special Oktoberfest menu available all day
• Live music starting at 5PM
• Special Hop Harvest and Mashing Pumpkin seasonal ales
• Fun for families and children of all ages
• And of course, the infamous Chicken Dance, which you can learn by watching this wonderful instructional video from everyone’s-a favorite-a program, The Lawrence Welk Show:

Elliott Bay Brewhouse and Pub is located in the heart of downtown Burien at 255 SW 152nd Street (map below) and can be reached at (206) 246-4211.

EDITOR’S NOTE: If you’ve never quaffed a few brews whilst wearing lederhosen and doing the Chicken Dance at an Oktoberfest party, you ain’t livin’!

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The B-Town Blog would like to lift its pint glass full of original, organic, locally-brewed brew and offer up a hearty toast to its latest Advertiser, Elliott Bay Brewery of Burien!

Elliott Bay Brewery is located at 255 SW 152nd Street in downtown Burien (map below), at the intersection of 4th Ave SW and SW 152nd, kitty-corner from the Burien Town Square construction.

They’ll be serving up lots of great food and fresh brewed beer at our second-ever “Blog Party 2.0” on Monday Aug. 25th, from 6pm on, and we invite all our Readers, Contributors and Advertisers to come on down and toss back a pint or three. That night will also serve as a Fundraiser for both the Highline and White Center Food Banks, and while there is no cover charge, all attendees are kindly requested to bring at least two cans (or boxes) of food.

Elliott Bay Brewery brews its own beers right on the premises, and you can even check out the big old tanks in the corner window (sometimes you may even spot the Brewmaster). And of course, strictly in the name of research, your BTBers have sampled just about every brew there is to quaff at Elliott Bay Brewery, and we’re happy to say there’s not a bad one in the batch.

On July 27th, Elliott Bay Brewery received notice that 12 of their house-brewed beers had been awarded organic certification from the WA Dept. of Agriculture. Elliott Bay Brewery is the first brewery in King County to brew certified organic beer and the only brewery in the state to gain certification for so many of its beers.

Currently, Elliott Bay Brewery is brewing up:

• Alembic Pale Ale
• B-Town Brown
• Highline IPA
• Hop von Boorian
• Luna Weizen
• No Doubt Stout
• Pilot Light

As well as these seasonals, most of which are named after Burien’s namesake Gottlieb Von Boorien:

• Abbey von Boorian
• Noir von Boorian
• Red von Boorian
• Sunnydale Pale Ale

Aside from being the area’s only brewery (and organic one at that), Elliott Bay Brewery is also green – they’re now participating in Puget Sound Energy’s Green Power program and purchasing approximately 60% of our electricity from wind power sources.

Elliott Bay Brewery also serves up some of the area’s highest quality pub food, most of which is made on-site from scratch, including hummus, crab cakes, salad dressings, soups, salads, and sauces. Their gourmet burgers are available with either all-natural Black Angus beef, chicken breast or vegetarian garden patty. All are served on buns baked with spent grain, a high-fiber by-product of their brewing process. You can view and print their full menu here (PDF file).

As you can probably guess, Elliott Bay Brewery also donates quite a bit to local charities, including these schools:

• St. Francis of Assisi
• Des Moines Elementary
• Shorewood Elementary
• Cedarhurst Elementary

So, to review:

• Certified Organic Beer
• Brewed Locally
• Hosting Blog Party 2.0
• In Tune With Local History
• Eco-Friendly and Very Green
• Serves Great Pub Food Made From Scratch
  
• Donates to Local Charities

Oh yeah, and one other thing:

• Brews a Ding Dang Fine Brewski!

Please click on their Ad, check out their offerings, attend Blog Party 2.0 (on Aug. 25th), and enjoy a fine meal and refreshing beverage (heck, they even serve excellent root beer on tap for the kids!).

Elliott Bay Brewery’s operating hours are:

• Monday-Saturday, from 11 am – 12 midnight
• Sunday from 11 am – 11 pm

Happy Hours are:

• Daily from 3 pm – 6 pm
• Nightly from 10 pm – close (that’s right – a second happy hour!)
  

For more information, please visit their website here.

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UPDATE: Due to scheduling conflicts with a band, we’re moving this party up a bit…stand by for updates shortly!

Here’s what we can tell you now:

• Location will be Elliott Bay Brewery, located at 255 SW 152nd Street in downtown Burien
• It will double as a Fundraiser for both the Highline and White Center Food Banks
• NO COVER CHARGE (but suggested donation of at least 2 cans/boxes of food)
• We will have a local, all-original band play an acoustic set!
• Appetizers will be served, courtesy Elliott Bay Brewery
• We will of course be doing some Live Blogging!
• Surprise Guests!
• Lots of Humor!
  
• Much more, so sign up for our Newsletter so you don’t miss anything!
  

We’ll see ya then!