Whitehorse Bar & Grill

I have been going to the White Horse Bar & Grill in Tukwila, WA for about 10 years, on and off. I live too far to frequent it a whole lot nowadays, but I used to go every weekend when I lived in Renton. This is definitely a «dive bar», I won’t lie to you. But in the GOOD way. I am fond, can you tell? Someone Unilocaled that WH only has one pool table but I have always known of them to have 2 pool tables, so. Also they have pinball, darts, karaōke both weekend nights — although Friday’s host rules and Saturday’s host drools. Too bad Sat. is the busier night there… Oh well, more stage time for me, I suppose. Anyway, insanely strong drinks, so more bang for your buck, very nice people (down home folks and various characters just drifting by on their way to the gambling establishments, sometimes even jocks after games, or people who work nearby dropping in after work, so it’s a hodge podge of «types», which I think keeps things interesting). It does get «dead» from time to time, so in that sense, at least the service is fast. You wouldn’t want to show up alone, I don’t imagine, to a dead bar — not exactly a meat market scenario — go with some good friends and be the belle of the ball, rule the roost, however you look at it — oh, and it’s nice and DARK the way I feel a bar (especially a dive bar) should be. And the person who says it smells like a moldy basement is full of it. When smoking got banned years ago, that took care of that problem, thankyou very much. That’s about it.

Not a ton of people flock to this place. It looks like it has grown some regulars. Karaōke was fun but it’s mostly the regulars that go up. Drinks are strong and cheap! Small Mom & Pop feel with the owner working the joint, felt dive but def. not ghetto.

There are moments… During the summer when its hot and sticky outside… That if you hanging out at the Whitehorse around five or six in the afternoon… Where it really feels like you could be kickin it at a bar in Tennessee… This place is tragic and little bit slimy… And everytime that I go there I wind up getting tossed and doing something stupid… Like the dent I put into my friends hood while I had my tongue down their throat… Or the time that I was passed out in the back of the car by 1130p… Thank God for designated drivers man!
The drinks are strong and they keep them coming fast and hard like its your momma on a Saturday night and the rent is due on Monday… High Standards of Personal and Oral Hygiene are 100% Optional amongst the clientele…

Strong drinks… if the bartender gets to know you… watch out. u will be taken care of… i work near tukwila. so i stop by… its a dive bar for sure… but not ghetto…

I was pretty skeeved out by this place when we went for a friends birthday a few months ago. When we walked in around 9pm most of the regulars were already there and only 4 teeth present. Regardless, the staff was nice enough and the drinks were strong. I was kind of mad at one of the bartenders because I only wanted to know what was in an AMF, because one of my friends had one and it was a pretty color — I really didn’t want one but he ended up making me those everytime I’d send one of my friends to get me a drink or something. Needless to say this review is only for the first half of the night, haha! I tried to order food and a bar fight broke out next to me, one of the participants being the owner… *sigh* but I did finally get some chicken strips and they were surprisingly good! Karaōke was fun, we were a big enough group that the whole regular rotation didn’t affect us much, but that’s when the night starts to blur. *grin* All I know is the next morning looking at the receipt we had paid $ 120 for the two of us to drink all night… Something doesn’t quite add up there with the quality of the place but… I was too drunk to dispute it at the time, therefore I’ll take the blame for signing a check that large. :)

It’s pretty much always empty. Tons of regulars at all hours of the day. The karaōke is ok at best but you run into the usual rotation drama that is, the regulars run the mic. Whatev. Drinks are pretty strong and they are cheap! There is nothing special to this place and I’d only stop here in passing.

I’ve been to this shit hole several times when some folks I work with drag me there. They like to party there because we can come in as a group of 30 or so and there is always room for all of us and we just take it over. The fucking kitchen closes at like 10pm, now what kinda sense does that make? get a bunch of people fucked up by over serving them shitty drinks and then not have food available? It’s saving grace is they have a dark back parking lot where a variety of things can happen «out of the public eye». You can also hide your car back there so no one sees it and knows your there.
If by chance you do decide to go there and there’s a big crowd from a local transportation company be sure to ask Steve O. to sing «Darling Nickie»

One of the lamest dive bars that I’ve ever been to. Drinks are really badly made but are pretty cheap. My friends love this place because they have karaōke on the weekends and it’s always empty. There’s one pool table. They have pretty good food but I’ve only ever seen their kitchen open once. The place smells like a dirty moldy basement.
I struggle giving this place 1 star, but if you are insane for karaōke and don’t order fancy drinks, this might be an ok place to hang out.