The Angry Beaver

Hockey. Screaming Blackhawks fans. Chorizo poutine. This is absolute victory.
During playoffs, you’ll want to arrive about 2 hours early to get a table. You can generally site a seat 15 minutes before game time during remedy season.
They have several different sauces for their poutine. The beef, chorizo, mushroom, turkey (when they had it), and curry flavors have all been great. I also recommend the Calgary Beef appetizer. Just the right amount of sweet on it.

This bar is fantastic and the only true place for a hockey fan in seattle. The person who posted before me is clearly full of crap. To say any hockey game is «non-​competetive» is proof that you are in no way a hockey fan. Great beer, great food on par with real canadian fare. Wonderful service and so many hockey fans!

Where do I start?
I’m a hockey fan and really wanted to like this place. Last playoff season they ran out of beer which means to me they should be doing a killing of a business but don’t know how to run or manage it. Sadly I think it’s the latter. When you’re running out of beer during your busiest time there is something wrong. But it gets worst, during the off season the owner set up a go fund me account to «save» the bar. Sort of hard to get behind that as a customer when you are jammed packed during hockey season and I’m already overpaying for my beer and lackluster food. Hockey season is nine months so they have most of the year where they should be pulling in some business if you’re not you need to review your business strategy. But it gets worst. Bar rescue offered to come and help and they declined! It’s obvious they need the help, why not take it? You don’t need to accept all the suggestions but at least hear them out!
And then today I went there with my mom and boyfriend to watch my team play around 4:15. We were one of the first ones there and as we’re finishing our beers the bartender asks to change the game? It was obvious we were watching this game so after changing all the tvs to non competitive games we decided to leave. I doubt we’ll be back which sucks because this place has so much potential!

After complaining about the time being wrong, and trashed on Facebook messenger, I would not recommend this place. If you point out an error to them they treat you as if you’re the problem. Very juvenile, and unprofessional. If you wish to see their name calling and childish behavior please message me. Thank you.

Great environment on a Saturday night. The karaōke was really fun. Their beer selection is okay. Drinks are very cheap. Only downside is I wanted to try their poutine, I should of called earlier to see what time the kitchen closes. At night it’s a bar.

I’d give this place 2 ½ stars if they’d let me. Important notes: a) I’ve only had one experience here and b) I am not a hockey person. I came in because I wanted to try out the Canadian fare (I had been daydreaming about a giant stack of chunky, crunchy-​edged taters doused in a pungent velvety gravy), and because I loveee the establishment’s name. :) My review is really all about the food and the service.
My husband and I decided to split a salad and the curry poutine. Salad was fine, all elements seemed fresh. The poutine, though, was terribly underwhelming. For eight dollars, the portion is very small. The french fries themselves could be described as“wimpy” — thin and not crispy. The curry gravy did taste like curry, I suppose, but not to that rich, zingy degree you expect from curry. Had to hunt for the cheese curds, which I’d assumed would be far more plentiful. It wasn’t BAD — we ate it – but it wasn’t great either… we felt completely unimpressed. Perhaps it was all about expectations. :’(
It was a busy Saturday evening when we came in and the place was full. They definitely could have done with an additional server. The asking-​for-​the bill/​receiving-​the-​bill/​credit-​card-​taken/​receipt-​returned procedure probably took 25 minutes… would have been longer but we went up to the bar so that we could pay and leave.
Fun sporty/​Canadian-​pride décor and friendly/​noisy vibe; I probably would’ve loved it ten years ago when all I cared about was being in a place full of young people and affordable beer and had lower expectations for food. :) I’m old now.

I don’t care at all about hockey, but I have to admire the soul of this spot. They are a shrine to Canada, hockey, and comfort food/​beverages. I loved the poutine flight and the nanaimo bar flight, and the fish & chips are top notch. The atmosphere is divey but the service is solid and the food is a big step up from normal bar food.

This is my favorite hockey bar in Seattle! pens fan from the Burgh, and an always catch a game when I stop in. Lots of tvs, great food, great service, full bar, shuffleboard table.
If you have a need for hockey in your life, and don’t mind a rowdy atmosphere, you’re not going to find a better bar in Seattle to get your hockey fix!

Everything is solid here, and exactly as you’d expect. I’ve had a good time playing shuffle board here, on their bumpered board. It’s a Canadian sports (lots of hockey) bar, with plenty of TV’s to watch, but I love coming in for the live music. No cover and a good, fun crowd. The staff here has always been great.
If you like hockey, this is your bar, if you don’t this is still a great spot.

Great food. Amazing poutine. Great service. Try the angry burger with poutine fries and as always hockey. The specials of the week always are amazing

This place immediately leaps to the top of the list as the première hockey bar in Seattle, without a doubt. No one else is trying even remotely as hard to court the hockey fan as the Angry Beaver is. If you need a spot to watch hockey, you can round up the star rating, or you can just skip that and come in for the game. Odds are they will have it on one of the many big flat screens – even if there are several games happening at once.
If you’re looking for live music or food and drinks, the experience may seem a bit more uneven. It’s definitely not bad, but they’re not really pushing to be amazing in any way other than in entertaining the hockey fan. We came in on a rainy Saturday night to watch the Hawks game after the windstorm knocked out our power at home. We had fun and will certainly come back for hockey.
It’s a good-​sized space; you might remember it was a medium-​sized restaurant before. There’s a long bar on the left and maybe a couple dozen tables on the right. The big windows facing Greenwood Ave all open so there’s plenty of air, weather permitting. On the bar side, there are more tables, and a long raised shuffleboard table. There are big flat screen TVs everywhere, tuned to the game. Have I mentioned this is a good place to watch sports?
The staff here are young and funny; they’re all outgoing and they know some good jokes. They sling a lot of basic mixed drinks and an awful lot of shots. Quite a few broskis in here shooting back the booze, at least on Saturday night. There are about a dozen taps, but they’re essentially meaningless for a big beer lover. You can find decent beer for sure, but the pints we drank were a bit under-​carbonated and maybe not the freshest. They don’t turn kegs over quickly, if those pours were any indication.
The menu is brief; about 4 short pages of burgers, sandwiches, salads, and fried stuff. The menus themselves are old, tattered, and torn. They’ll serve food, but you get the sense that people memorize what they want pretty quickly, and the physical menus are kind of a fallback mechanism they keep around mainly for newer customers. This place is only a couple years old, but the menus look ancient already.
The food itself is OK. We had an Angry Burger, advertised as containing ghost pepper sauce and other intense spices. It had some kick to it, but overall it was just a basic burger – it was trying to disintegrate before I was half done. We also had chicken strips (basically just microwaved frozen chicken strips with some hot sauce on them) and the poutine. The poutine is *rad* rad rad, but super salty. We had it with the turkey gravy, which was delicious, but it sounds like the curry might be even better.
As the night went on, a fairly competent cover band set up (took them about an hour to plug in) and started playing. They got a bustling crowd for it – they really started slinging some shots when the music crowd walked in. At this point, our service basically disappeared. It took half an hour to close our tab. Our bartender wandered by with the ice bucket, trays of drinks, and other assorted orders and sidework several times, with no chance to get her attention. A trainee finally rang us out.
They definitely go into live music mode past a certain hour on the weekends, it seems – placing our food order was like pulling fingernails; the bartender was so eager to write up the ticket and get it to the kitchen that every question we asked made her clearly want to punch us in the face. I’d prefer to have gone over 15% at the end of the night just on the chance that this might become a regular stop, but it looks more likely to be a landing zone for groups of people when hockey’s on.

Great to have this dedicated hockey bar. Especially fun when lots of games are on and lots of fans of different teams are here in full voice… probably more passion here than any other sports bar I’ve been to. Nice bartenders and a limited but reliable menu of hearty, (un)healthy food. I have no idea how authentic the poutine is but I sure do think it is miiiiiiighty tasty. Let’s hope Seattle has our own NHL team to root for here at the Beav very soon.

Seattle’s only Canadian bar catering hockey fans, ethnic Canadians, and their sympathizers. The poutine with a choice of three gravies and authentic cheese curd is excellent if unhealthy. Solid beer selection. Every televised NHL game available on multiple screens and staff/​customers that know the game. Menu much improved over previous visit.
Only criticism not enough space (2^nd location?)and they need air conditioning. Can’t ding them a 5^th star for that.

Went there to watch the Blackhawks game and it was awesome! It felt like I was back in Chicago. It’s a bit pricey, but I ordered the pink beaver and it was really good… And I ordered the mushroom hamburger which it was good, but I had better I other places.

For a dive bar, this place is seriously awesome. My boyfriend introduced me to The Beaver because he’s an avid hockey fan. His team was playing last weekend and what better way to show our support then go to a Canadian themed dive bar, drink beer and eat poutine? The answer to that question is, of course, there isn’t.
As I mentioned, we partook in copious amounts of beer drinking and indulged in (ready for it?) a poutine burger. Not a burger with a side of poutine. A burger topped with poutine. My mouth is watering just thinking of it. It’s quite possibly the most sinful thing ever. And yet it’s so undeniably delicious. The burger on its own is dynamite — juicy, perfectly seasoned and on a great bun! Then it’s covered in glorious hand-​cut french fries covered in gravy and cheese curds. UH-​MAZING.
I also think for a dive bar they offer some pretty genuine service. Love this little gem in Greenwood for hockey fans and non-​hockey fans alike!

My friend is really into hockey so she brought me to the angry beaver when I was visiting seattle. Even tho I’m not into the sport, it was just my speed. I like causal bars with good food and places to sit. The waiter was friendly and so were the hockey fans.
I tried 3 kinds of poutine, my favorite was the beef and then the curry. I didn’t care for the mushroom one.

So, ever been to a bar and leave without ordering a beer? Well, there’s a first time for everything.
My boyfriend and I wanted to watch an east coast game at about 5 pm PT. When we walked in there were literally more TVs on the wall than patrons watching them (only 5 people in the bar), but we were still told by (presumably) the proprietor that there are no TVs for your game. Yeah? Kind of a jerk move. We were able to go to our normal local bar who put the game on for us in the middle of march madness without hesitation.
Didn’t get to drink beers OR watch hockey. Spare yourself the fight thru traffic, you’re better off buying a growler and watching your game on the web at home.

This place is awesome! I’ve always had great service and drinks are reasonably priced. There’s a lot of beer choices on tap (including Canadian beer) and cider as well. The Canadian themed cocktails are fun and tasty. Their food is consistently good and their menu continues to develop. Any hockey fan can appreciate and love this place.
P. s. Jessi is extremely sweet and takes care of you. She remembered my friends and I after only serving us once before. My favorite server here by far!

Been here once. It’s the perfect spot to get your bit of Canada. If you’re a huge fan of How I met Your Mother and hockey, you may appreciate this spot a bit more. They have a Canadian beer — I had their Molson Canadian lager which was okay but nothing special really (you can get it in some grocery stores). The food was good. We went earlier in the day so we were the only customers inside.
Outside parking may be a bit complicated, it’s all street parking and depending on the time of day you may have to park a ways away.
Nothing special about this place other than it’s hail to Canada, which if you’re looking for the whole Canada bar experience, this is your place (Seattle’s only Canada bar).

Sometimes I crave Canada! I think all Seattleites do. And Angry Beaver can help you scratch that itch.
They have all the Canadian staples you can ask for. They have Kokanee, hockey on big screens, several flavors of poutine (try the curry poutine) and jars full of canadian candy. Complete with a bartender that will spring the occasional ‘eh?‘
Angry beaver is a great divey bar in general. The beer and food are very reasonable and the customer service is super down to earth. I love hanging out here.

Great sports bar, great poutine. Sticky floors, can get crowded but always a good crowd & they offer live music!
It promises a good (but not «high-​class») time :)