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For around five months starting last October, Seattle-area restaurant workers were required to stop guests at the doors of bars and restaurants to ask for proof of vaccination before dining inside. The King County mandate requiring bars and restaurants to check for vaccine proof (or a negative COVID-19 test) for indoor dining expired on March 1, but some Seattle-area restaurants and bars are opting to require customers to be vaccinated anyway.
Before the mandate began, at least 140 Seattle-area restaurants were requiring proof of vaccination for indoor dining. And 87 percents of respondents in an Eater Seattle poll released last September wanted the city to require proof of vaccination for indoor dining. Some business owners, though found the requirement to be another burden for short-staffed restaurants and bars.
Since some Seattle-area restaurants started requiring proof of vaccination last July, there has been some pushback from anti-vaxxers looking to punish bars and restaurants for these measures by leaving one-star reviews on Yelp and Google. Other restaurateurs, though, including Cafe Lago’s Carla Leonardi, say most guests have appreciated the stricter vaccination measures.
Below is a non-exhaustive list of restaurants and bars still requiring proof of vaccination for indoor dining, gathered from social media announcements and email and phone confirmations. Some restaurants are letting unvaccinated customers dine outside; others are only letting vaccinated customers in all parts of the business. Most of the places below accept a cell phone photo of vaccination cards as verification (rather than the card itself), as long as the picture is accompanied by a valid ID.
If you see any other businesses with similar vaccine requirements or notice changes to policies at businesses already on this list, please send us a tip.
BALLARD
Ballard Station
The Blue Glass
Watson’s Counter
Copine
BEACON HILL
Breezy Town Pizza
The Flora Bakehouse
Homer
Musang
BELLEVUE
Fogrose Atelier
BELLTOWN
Navy Strength
Trade Winds Tavern
Screwdriver Bar
Rob Roy
CAPITOL HILL/FIRST HILL
Artusi
Glo’s Cafe
Bait Shop
Capitol Cider
Corvus and Company
Clock-Out Lounge
The Doctor’s Office
Karachi Cowboys
Linda’s Tavern
Inside Passage
Marmite
Oddfellow’s
The Pine Box
Rumba
Unicorn/Narwhal
Spinasse
Vito’s
Central District
L’Oursin
COLUMBIA CITY/HILLMAN CITY
Archipelago
Off Alley
Twilight on Rainier
FREMONT
Meesha
Kamonegi
Hannyatou
DENNY TRIANGLE/DOWNTOWN
Le Caviste
Cherry
Kremwerk
Timbre Room
EASTLAKE/CASCADE
Sushi Kappo Tamura
GEORGETOWN
Ciudad
Mezzanotte
GREENWOOD/PHINNEY RIDGE
Oliver’s Twist
Windy City Pie
KIRKLAND
Cafe Juanita
Nasai Teriyaki
MADISON VALLEY
Cafe Flora
Surrell
MONTLAKE
Cafe Lago
PIKE PLACE
Cafe Campagne
PIONEER SQUARE
Pioneer Square D&E
QUEEN ANNE
Betty Restaurant & Bar
RAVENNA
Kricket Club
Nasai Teriyaki
REDMOND
Nasai Teriyaki
SOUTH LAKE UNION
Gold Bar
U DISTRICT
Nasai Teriyaki
WALLINGFORD
Octopus Bar