The Library Bistro and Bar brings bookishness to downtown Seattle. It’s reminiscent of 1950s-style restaurants or cocktail bar with their faux lizard skin high-back booths. Shelves of books line the walls near an elaborate wood bar and create a comfortable reading-room feel. The Bookstore Bar’s 10-foot high charcoal-blue bookcases display hundreds of volumes by authors famous and infamous. This downtown Library Bistro is lighted to accent its warm, tangerine colored walls. Retro bubble-raised carpet, oiled oak floors and modern faux copper and bronze checkerboard tiles tastefully garnish the floors. And The Library Bistro's cozy, warm atmosphere attracts a local following. All this makes it an emerging local landmark. The Bookstore Bar features an excellent selection of single malt scotch, single barrel bourbon and international beers. 

This comfy, downtown Seattle restaurant serves contemporary American food at reasonable prices in an environment that is soothing, enjoyable and entertaining. When dining at The Library Bistro, you may sometimes see others inspecting the Bookstore Bar’s extensive selection of cookbooks that are also available to buy, or reading magazines and newspapers from around the country. Appetizers like grilled asparagus with green goddess dressing or crunchy-crusted mac and cheese with apple-parsley salad are seasonally-inspired. Favorite entrees include fish and chips (halibut with bistro fries) or roasted chicken and heirloom potatoes with herbs. 

The Library Bistro is open daily between 11:30 a.m. and midnight, the Bookstore Bar offers delicious homemade desserts, salads, soups and pastas. Diners wanting something heartier can order from the Library Bistro’s menu. This bistro-bar can not only provide an intimate dinner or drinks for two, but it can handle everything from small group of ten to a lavish cocktail wedding reception for over 100. It provides the perfect place to host exceptional get-togethers. Available on request for whatever occasions may arise – including meetings over breakfast, lunch or dinner, seminars, retreats, business presentations, receptions, birthday parties, team building sessions, rehearsal dinners or holiday events – it’s a pleasant repast from the city’s hustle and bustle.