Floyd’s Place

Yummy silver city ipa, well deserved after a long day at work

This place has been around lower QA for quite some time– It seems to be a local stand-​by for event-​goers at the Seattle center. I decided to stop in for a quick pint one night!
This place has a pretty laid back feel upon walking in. It’s not quite a dive, but its far from fancy. It can range from pretty busy some nights (busier on event nights), to pretty dead on others, so take that into consideration.
There’s a pretty decent sized selection of microbrews on tap — They don’t get too into the more extreme styles much, but there’s certainly a wide enough variety to please most beer geeks here!
I didn’t get to try the food, but since it IS BBQ, that may just be a matter of time on my end.
Service seemed pretty solid. Prices seemed pretty reasonable for everything. Overall, it ain’t too shabby. Will come back to try the food at some point!

First time I experienced Floyd’s was not as incredible as I thought it would be. I live literally a block from this joint and was excited that I could experience good BBQ so close to home. However, my first experience was not bad but not good either. The food was «ok» and the wait was a bit ridiculous considering there was no one in there. The male bartender there is a complete and total ass! I can’t stress that enough. I am always quick to tip any server but this guy really had me questioning if I should or not. The second time I went to Floyd’s (today actually) I walked in to grab an order to go, same asshole bartender was there and I as walked up to the bar I had my coffee in my hand, without any hesitation he says «um yea, I don’t mean to be a dick but you can’t have that in here» I responded with «oh! Sorry, I just walked here and wanted to order food to go real quick» bartender says «thats nice but I don’t care, you still can’t have that in here». Now I understand that some businesses do want want other places stuff in their restaurant but if I’m freaking walking over to yours with a full coffee in my hands and I want to eat the food you serve you should consider a little more gratitude and then maybe politely ask me to put my drink elsewhere. Either way, I walked out without food. I’ll never go back.

I want to give this place five stars sooooo badly. The drinks are delicious and the least expensive I’ve ever seen in Seattle. The food is meh. Nothing better than average bar food. What absolutely sucked was the service. I felt like our server was doomed to fail since she was covering a majority of the floor. I don’t blame her for being rude and completely ignoring our requests… It’s actually more of a management issue. This place has all the right tools to be successful, but isn’t using them wisely.

The BBQ is good but not great.
They have a good beer selection and its gets pretty rockin on a game night.

Decent but nothing special. A friend and I stopped by because we were in the area and it was fine but again, just nothing special. Service was good and our beers were fine. I ordered the fried chicken strips and fries, I was not very impressed with the fried chicken (I am from the South, but this was definitely below par). It tasted very much like it had been picked up from Walmart deli. The fries, however, were great. Thin and crispy just like I like them. The dish came with a side of some type of sour cream, mustard, lime sauce which my friend and I both liked. I wouldn’t be opposed to going back if I were in the area but I am definitely not going out of my way for this place.

Wouldn’t it be nice to have a place that served cheap eats, good beer, and some solid service, within walking distance of Key Arena, so you could celebrate with your friends prior to hitting a concert? Well guess what, you ought to lease a place and set it up, because Floyd’s isn’t getting it done.
Food & Drink:
You’ve got two primary options for food at Floyd’s – BBQ or fried. You also have some sandwich and salad options, but I wouldn’t recommend either. It’s going to be very generic and something you’d get at a Fred Meyer deli.
The BBQ across the board is below-​average. It’s actually not about the flavor or necessarily the BBQ/​smoking process (although the process isn’t great – you won’t find smoke rings or a nice crisp edge). The sauces and flavor are decent, but the general cut of meat, whether it’s pork or brisket, leaves a bit to be desired due to the fattiness and grease. The ribs are your best bet if you elect to go the BBQ route.
Appetizer wise both the wings and chicken tenders are passable. They’re very generic, but if you’re used to pub grub you’re going to be comfortable with it. You’ll have a couple different wing types you can try. The chili is actually not bad, and was probably my favorite out of the food choices here – not going to blow you away but it’s the type of thick meat based chili that’ll fill you up.
Price points here are OK, for what you get. Combo platters of BBQ run around $ 15, and a full rack of ribs around $ 18. If you stick with appetizers and/​or sandwiches you’re looking at about $ 8 a plate/​selection. Honestly, given the area it’s cheap, but as noted above, given the quality you get back it’s a trade-​off.
The beer list is relatively solid. I think it’s a bit overhyped honestly as it doesn’t change that often, it’s IPA heavy, and often times they’ve «run out» of your first or second choice. That said, you will have about 15 beers to choose from, and many will be craft beers. It’s going to be have mostly Seattle craft (lot of Georgetown) to go with regular domestics but you’ll see an occasional Green Flash or something equivalent every-​so-​often.
Ambiance & Service:
The location is great, just at the bottom of Queen Anne, near the Metropolitan Market and Key Arena. It’s well positioned to host the dinner crowd for a Key Arena venue. Once you’re inside it’s all downhill from there.
If the place isn’t classified as a dive bar, it’s certainly sliding in that direction. That’s OK, I like a dive bar now and again. The trick to a dive bar, however, is to make it lived in/​rustic/​trashy but with some kind of charm – be it good pub grub, great beer, or good conversation. Chairs can be rickety. Walls can be plastered with strange posters, shuffleboard tables can be cracked. TVs can be small. Lighting can be dim. Restrooms can be a bit suspect. Patrons can be shady. All that’s fine for a dive. One thing you can’t have – unclean conditions in relation to food.
I have sat for a good while at Floyd’s waiting for both concerts and hockey games (before the Thunderbirds moved) in Floyd’s. If I paid you a C-​Note for every time the bar was wiped down while I was there, I’d be just as rich after leaving the place, as when I went in. I’ve seen food sit out for long amounts of time before plating/​distribution. I’ve seen beers pour onto the floor as the bartender walked away. I’ve seen glasses reused after the quickest rinse job possible. It’s a problem, and it’s habitual.
The service is atrocious. It has nothing to do with how busy or non-​busy the place is (or the Key Arena event going on). This place would have just as bad service with U2 or Metallica playing across the way as they would with Snow or Keith Sweat (who?). It’s not a question of the number of staff or patrons – it’s about the organization of the place and the relative lack of passion/​caring/​professionalism from the staff. You’d be lucky to get a menu without asking. Though the beer list isn’t bad, you won’t know it unless you walk up to the tap handles yourself. You’d be lucky to have anyone ask you proactively what you’d like to eat/​drink.
Final Thoughts:
Anytime you’ve got a combination of bad cleanliness, poor service, and flat beer, the food better be great to compensate. The food here is average at best, and the combination of factors in its entirety gives it my worst rating. Need another justification: It’s a Steelers’ bar/​hang-​out on game day. I rest my case.
–AC

On Game Night, this is a perfectly fine place — the kitchen is rockin’, doing its thing, and its thing is a good beer selection and pub grub.
On every other night, this is a dive. You don’t even want to test the kitchen because there isn’t much going on.
BUT: the beer selection is good, there are a lot of TVs, and it might just take a critical mass of regulars to make this a rockin’ sports pub!
Right now, it’s not there, but soon?

This place has been the beer lover’s friend for two full decades or more now. Back when serving local craft beer was an obscure niche business model, these guys were pouring 20+ taps, mostly local, mostly craft. Lots of imports over time as well. They’re also serving decent BBQ, though it’s been a while since I’ve had that.
You walk in and you get that lived-​in feel right away. It’s not teetering into dive status, but it’s laid back and unpretentious. It’s a long narrow space with a few tables, a long highboy in the middle, and some bar stools. Every table has a roll of paper towels ready to serve your bbq-​eatin’, finger-​lickin’ needs.
The bar is also full liquor, though I would imagine they are light on the wine selection and light on the custom cocktails. There’s more seating in the back, with shuffleboard and I think darts. The bathrooms are what make you wonder if this place is sliding down the slope to divedom, though they’re not filthy or anything. Just not brand-​new by any means.
The people here are nice, both the staff and the regulars. If you’re looking to grab a drink before an event in the area, you will be fine here, as long as your tastes are fairly simple and your expectations are neutral.

Friendly staff. Very attentive to needs to fill empty drinks or food orders. I liked it. Great bar food!

Good list of beers, and the food smells amazing, but the service sucks so much that I doubt I’ll ever take the time to eat there.
There were only four people at the bar, but it took the bartender about 7 minutes (and several text messages) before he could get himself to actually walk over to where we sat.

We were staying at a nearby hotel and asked several people for a recommendation for dinner. The neighborhood has so many choices, but my wife and daughter felt like ribs, so the consensus of the advice was for Floyd’s Place.
At the time we arrived, close to 9pm, the place was mostly empty with a few customers at the bar.
They have a large selection of interesting beers. The waiter was knowledgeable about the selection and was helpful. Widmer Hefeweizen was $ 4.25/each.
My wife and daughter split a Full Rack of Ribs ($ 19.95), which were very good. I had a Brisket Sandwich ($ 8.25), which was good. I felt that the sandwich was good, but ordinary. My wife and daughter really enjoyed their ribs.

My friends and I stopped here before the Storm game last weekend. This was my third time here and just so happens to be my first review of this place… and boy was it a crappy experience this time around.
Service service service! The service was terrible. We walked in, grabbed a table, and waited for menus. And we waited… and waited… and waited. Maybe ten minutes later, we went to the bar and asked about menus, to which the we were told we had to get them from the bar. Okay, fine. Maybe five minutes later, the same bartender comes over to take our order. He doesn’t write anything down, which is okay, but he also seemed a bit spacey and had to come back once to clarify our orders.
The food arrives and one person didn’t get their order. The guy who is usually behind the bar is playing the role of food runner, so we ask about the order and he checks with the kitchen. He comes back through the dining area without saying anything about it, so we stop him and ask if they forgot, to which he replies, «no, they are just really busy…» Okay, so that means they forgot. Then we ask him if we can order drinks from him and he says, «no, I’m only doing food.» NICE!
Another staffer brings the forgotten order over and then we see the «nice» server guy come by with another plate… somehow they mixed it up and made the order twice and he didn’t know someone else had already brought it out. Communication is clearly exceptional on this day.
We finish the meal, they clear our table, and we wait for the check. And we waited… and waited… and waited. We walk up to the bar to pay and the guy looks at us like three times, yet he continues to help people who just walked into the joint. Like wtf. We pay and bounce over to the arena to watch the game.
Just to be clear, it definitely wasn’t busy and most people were at the bar drinking. The kitchen was putting out food like clockwork, so it really was the lack of a few good and polite servers… or at the very least, one attentive server. My previous two visits here were great and the food is wonderful, but this review is about the service and it sucked.

Flloyd’s is one of those places you might walk right by and not notice but it’s a hidden gem on lower Queen Anne. I’m a huge fan of their wings, as of this review they do 20 cent wings on Tuesdays and you really can’t go wrong with lunch that costs $ 4. The atmosphere is a somewhere between dive bar (which I love, that isn’t a diss on them at all) and sports bar (not as big a fan of sports bars, but I like that they’re usually playing at least one soccer game).
Their other BBQ options are pretty tasty too, and they have Stongbow cider on tap which in my opinion is worth a couple stars just on it’s own.

I got to add a star because cost-​quality ratio is almost better than anything else in the neighborhood and I keep going back. The BBQ Turkey sandwich is good enough but the shoestring fries are just so damn good!
OK so maybe I’m not so hot on the coleslaw but that’s a GREAT lunch deal for the price.

What a day. Played flag football in the rain. Lost 13 – 0. And what other way to drown in our own tears by going to a place that you’ve never been too for food and drinks with some of your teammates.
I was told by two of my teammates, who are diehard Steelers’ fans, that this is a Steelers’ sports bar and grill because the chef, himself, is also a diehard Steelers’ fan as well.
The atmosphere, I thought, was pretty cool. It’s what you would expect from sports bar.
I had an order of their BBQ Turkey Sandwich with Fries, which I destroyed without a single fry, turkey or bread left on the plate. It was that yummy. I’m not a big fan of heavy BBQ sauce so I had it on the side so I can pour as I go. The turkey itself was pretty tasty and moist. The best part is that it wasn’t dried like some I have tasted in my days of eating turkey sandwiches.
We also had an order of their nachos, only had a few bites of it. Not really a nacho person.
All in all I think it’s a pretty good atmosphere to be in if you are a diehard sports fan, period. I think I would definitely be back to try some of their other dishes. Watch out for my update review about this place next Saturday after my football game.

Kendrick and BBQ sitting in a tree
K-​i-​s-​s-​i-​n-​g
first comes love
then comes lawsuit
then comes the loony bin
cuz you can’t make love with a pork sandwich
or can you?
marriage maybe. but sign the pre-​nups, just in case. love is temporary but pork is forever.

My husband and I have been here several times for their tap selection. They must have over 15 taps here of some of the best Northwest beer around Queen Anne and Belltown. They also have pretty darn good nachos (which sometimes could use a big more «cheese coverage»), but the ½ order is definitely enough to share among two people.
This place is also great to catch a game on TV or just hang out and people watch. Even during the middle of the day this place is packed, making it a good choice for grabbing a beer or ½ order of nachos.

You can’t beat being whisked away from the office mid-​day for a happy hour that runs from 2−6pm!
Brisket sliders, tenders & fries, for cheap — and while I begrudgingly behaved and had a soda, the happy hour drinks are low cost too!
Sweet deal!

Microsoft prime 2007
Ambience: 1
Food: 2
Value: 1
Terrible looking: dingy and dirty
Not a good crowd; almost deserted on a Friday night
Mediocre food: sample platter: ribs; dry, sausage; decent, chicken; flavorless, fries: excellent, crispy, show string
Not worth the money or the trip