With COVID numbers rising again, these 60 Seattle bars and restaurants now require proof of vaccination for entry

With the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus spreading in Washington state, there are at least 60 bars and restaurants in Seattle from Friday afternoon require customers to provide evidence that they have been vaccinated to eat or drink on their premises.

The self-imposed mandate is spearheaded by many big names on Capitol Hill, including The Unicorn, Linda’s Tavern, Rumba, and Canon, and it comes as the state faces a fifth wave of infections. At least a dozen bars were temporarily closed last week after their employees tested positive for COVID-19 or came into contact with an infected person. As a result, many bar owners announced on social media that proof of vaccination is now required in order to dine or drink on their premises.

“No shirt, no shoes, no vaccine, no entry,” said Linda Derschang, who owns Linda’s Tavern and Oddfellows Cafe + Bar on Capitol Hill and King’s Hardware in Ballard. “This is about protecting our employees and our guests,” said Derschang, who checked the COVID-19 vaccine cards on Thursday before her Ballard dive.

The bar industry cannot afford to close again because of the pandemic and everyone must do their part, she said.

Because institutions have their own rules about vaccination records, the self-imposed restrictions vary. At King’s Hardware and Oddfellows, guests who cannot prove they are vaccinated will be asked to dine on the outdoor deck if there is seating, management said.

At Oddfellows, people under the age of 16 are not required to provide proof of vaccination, but are asked to wear their masks when not seated.

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The spike in COVID-19 cases hit the bar industry hard last week.

After an employee came into contact with an infected person at Vitos on First Hill, management closed the bar last weekend and didn’t reopen until Wednesday after every employee’s COVID-19 test was negative, owner Greg Lundgren said.

After that horror, Vitos managers and employees came to the conclusion that they would only be comfortable knowing that every customer they served was fully vaccinated, Lundgren said.

Unicorn, one of the most popular bars on Capitol Hill’s Pike Pine Corridor, was also closed last week after two vaccinated employees were infected, prompting bar owner Adam Heimstadt to plead solidarity with colleagues who own other local bars show by refusing entry to customers who are not vaccinated.

“We all need to band together to request a vaccination card. It’s the only way. If a place doesn’t, people just go to that bar and they may make someone sick, ”he said.

Institutions that enforce a “no vaccine, no entry policy” are mostly bars that serve a clientele who hop from bar to bar and often come into close contact with other guests in a crowded room.

With the Delta variant hanging around, it’s likely that the list of bars and restaurants in the Seattle area that require proof of vaccination will continue to grow, compiled by Jessica Tousignant of Seattle Restaurants United.

Bars and restaurants in the Seattle area now require proof of vaccination

Capitol

• Barboza
• Corvus & Co
• CC Attles
• Olos
• Inner passage
• La Dive
• freedom
• Life on mars
• Light sleeper
• Linda’s tavern
• Marmite
• Montana
• Drunk Nacho
• Pneumos
• Oddfellows Café + Bar
• Pine box
• pony
• Queer / bar
• revolver
• rumba
• run away
• Speckled & Drake
• More schnapps
• Taku
• The cuff
• The doctor’s office
• The rhino room
• The Roanoke
• unicorn
• union
• Wild Rose

Bell City

• Strength of the navy
• Rob roy
• Roquette
• Screwdriver bar
• Shortys
• Trade wind tavern

Ballard

• Add to
• Ballard Station Public House
• Hotel Albatros
• King hardware

Fremont

• The barrel thief
• Schilling cider house

Phinney Ridge

Beacon Hill

Central district

Columbia City

Downtown

First hill

Ravenna

Laurelhurst

• Burke-Gilman Brewing Company

Pioneering place

• Bad bishop
• Lower abdomen
• Meyer

Then do it

Georgetown

West Seattle

• The Good Society Brewery & Public House

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