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Categories: Dive Bars, American (Traditional), Karaoke [Edit]
Neighborhood: Queen Anne
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Good Happy Hour and great place to watch games on Saturday morning.
I couldn't have been more happy to watch our alumni game here this past Saturday morning. Buckley's was slammed with losing Iowa State fans, so we walked up the hill to Ozzie's. The place was basically empty except for a few random tables. We decided to order breakfast even after knowing it was not the best in the west. Well, turned out it wasn't too bad. I enjoyed the eggs benedict with hash browns (presentation aside) which was huge for only $6.25. The others had the breakfast burrito's and said they were delish and stuffed with jalapeno's. We like it hot!
For there only being one bartender that was also waitressing, she was SO nice and did a really good job for handling all the food and drink orders. Props to her!
We had our own area to ourselves for the entire game, probably about 15 of us. We ended up staying til happy hour that started at 4pm, mind you we started at 930am. So we decided to get down on the great happy hour specials. To be 100% honest, all booze aside, this was probably the best burger and fries for $2.50, that I have ever had. The bun was like none other, it was freaking amazing! It seemed to be like a super light fluffy english muffin... The fries were cooked to a perfect crisp. I was so excited about this deal, and it lasted for 3 hours, til 7. I am a food snob, but love finding little gems like Ozzie's burger and fries HH special.
Give it a try, it'll be a well spent $2.50, guaranteed.
Ozzies is the lowest common denominator of Seattle karaoke. Pros: It is spacious and easy to locate, drinks are cheap and the bar food is not all that bad. Cons: The song selection is poor. The dance floor barely big enough to contain even one or two drunken mating rituals. The sound system is worse than the one they had at my middle school buddy's bar mitzvah and can barely be heard above the boisterous revelry in the bar area. The popped collar is alive and well here, both among staff and customers, and the noxious odor of competing colognes and hair products permeates every inch of the establishment. I realize that management has no control over patrons' scent choices, but please- educate your staff about avoiding egregious olfactory assault.
Come here if you want to observe the West-coast version of the Guido fist-pump or get a second-hand spray tan. Otherwise steer clear, and head to Hula Hula down the street or Bush Gardens in the international district.
Came here before a concert at the Key. Made it in time for hh which meant good deals on food and drinks.
I don't usually come here to hang out often, just either to grab a drink or play some cheap pool. This place is pretty crowded and I can see the frustrations that other reviewers have with the crowd.
IMO it's not that a bad bar for a quick drink
I don't understand why there are so many hateful reviews out there about Ozzie's. If you don't like a dive bar then don't go here. I love how people also think that only sorority/fraternity individuals go to this bar. That is very judgmental. I love going to Ozzies! Not only is the food cheap, but they make great drinks, they have like 4 bars in there, karaoke, and an outdoor deck upstairs perfect for the summertime. I think that sometimes Ozzie's gets out of control with the people that do go there, meaning it is sometimes over-crowded. This is a great place to have a party too!
Cheap drinks, they've got. Cheap food, they've got. Karaoke, yup they've got it. This place pretty much has everything, if you're an early drinker their happy hour is super cheap. Friday nights are like being in a night club on crack with a vodka chaser. It's okay but it's no john wayne. If you're in the mood for a quick drink and a good spot to have a laugh with your friends check this place out. Be prepared though when it's busy it's rough getting a drink.
Not only is this place an annoying, crowded, vermin-infested, meat market on the weekends, it's even worse on the weekdays. Bad karaoke, mediocre food with a few sad patrons. I can see why.
My sweetie and I went in for an afternoon snack and the salad was inedible. The bacon bits were hard enough to crack teeth, the chicken was basically jerky and the "ranch" tasted more like bleu cheese. On top of waiting an hour to get the check (we had other items on the bill and he was occupied with his laptop, otherwise we would have walked out), they didn't even comp the salad we barely touched. After arguing about it with the waitress for a while with no success, we didn't leave a tip (maybe you'll take it off the check now, bitch?) . Of course, the waitress showed her class by talking shit while we were leaving.
This part of Herpes Alley should be condemned.
Large two level bar with multiple places to order drinks from. Their were 2 different areas for karaoke and a small dance floor. A large group of Oregon students were here after the football game that day.
I'm a fan of dive bars so Ozzie's no less has a special place in my heart.
We celebrated my friend's birthday here on Sunday night and we couldn't have had a better time.
Though I didn't drink (surprise, surprise!), the bartenders were quick and friendly. I notified them that it was my friend's birthday and we were immediately served a round of Washington Apples on the house.
We spent the early half of our evening playing darts which is free and buying drinks for my friend. Later on, as the alcohol started to take effect, I suggested karaoke to my friend and she willingly obliged. :D
She and my other extremely inebriated friend, T picked out 'I want it that way' from Backstreet Boys. I offered some help and wrote down their song number since both of them were seeing double by this point.
Boy, it was a great performance by the drunk duo - totally put the Backstreet Boys to shame. My camera unfortunately died halfway through the night, but a friend luckily had hers so we took some nice footage of the two belting it out.
Overall, a chill place to hang out, throw a couple back, and watch some drunken karaoke.
Whoever the girl saying "leave your pretentious expectations at the door" is, she must be part of the clientele that Ozzie's tries to attract. Promiscuous, fraternity/sorority, douche bag types, and older people who haven't grown out of their college partying yet and still act like they're 21.
I happen to LOVE dive bars, and while this place is definitely a dive, the rowdy drunks, obnoxious karaoke singing, mediocre food, weak and expensive drinks that can take 30 minutes to get on a busy night, inadequate bathrooms, cleanliness and service is what makes this place lame. I am a little older than the typical "I have a fake ID or just turned 21" type of crowd that frequents this place, but even when I was in that age group, there was no level of drunk I could get to that made me enjoy this place. And I am a very happy drunk, just not here it seems.
Ozzie's is the kind of bar you walk into and walk right back out.
If you're looking to find rowdy college coeds, then you may choose to stay.
If you're looking for bartenders, who likely find Dane Cook hilarious, drink protein shakes every morning before pumping iron, and pick and choose who they pay attention to, then you may choose to stay.
If you miss your days on Greek row, then you may choose to stay.
Other than the above scenarios, I can't fathom why anyone wouldn't do an about face after walking through the door.
Okay so I decided to finally go in here, really I just wanted a burger and fries. It was pretty early in the day so it wasn't to packed out or anything.
It smelled so gross in there I almost, had I not been so hungry walked out. The food was not great, it was not horriable. It was cheap however so that's a plus.
People started to migrate in, first a few old bar flys, probably been going to Ozzies since they opened, little to old in my book to be there, one of the gals I swear I see her everytime I walk past ozzies. Then a few jennys and brads came thru the door, way too done up for that place, but that is what I come to expect of the clientel of most of Queen Anne.
I'm sure the Justin Timberlake anthology was going to start blaring over speakers soon so we left.
Rolling into Ozzie's three deep on a Wednesday night was somewhat of a surpsingly pleasant experience. There were about ten other patrons there. Some in groups, some solo, but very subdued. I had never expected such a crowd on my first visit. The stories of Ozzie's being rowdy boy party central scared me a bit, I will admit, and kept me far away.
I didn't know what to expect looking at the outside of Ozzie's. It was dark and it looked fairly harmless. Walking in you are faced with endless options. Go left into the karaoke den? Go straight to the back? Go upstairs? Maybe cut a rug on the one inch by one inch so called dance floor? Overall, Ozzie's looks like its been around for a while. I'm sure its seen better days.
The door man was huge of course and cordial. The bartender did his job.
My friends and I walked around to scope the place out and I noticed the food others were eating. A guy had a mighty fine looking calzone sitting in front of him. I eyeballed that thing like nobodies business. I will have to try the food.
The karaoke singers were bearable. No loud drunken crooning that night. My ears are still thanking me.
I would like to go back to Ozzie's to get a taste of their menu, maybe sing a little ditty, but it would have to be on a weeknight.
This "frat bar" has gotten a bad rap from me in the past for simply being in the right place at the right time and accommodating large groups of people. You certainly don't come for ambiance (unless it is time karaoke).
However, after getting tiny bites at "the Bite" we wanted a little more to eat & drink then a nibble. Behold! The 2.50 deals! 3 sliders with fries for $2.50. A generous sampling of beers for $3.50! What a deal!
Still not my favorite place in the area but they did win me over by playing to one of my weaknesses- value. Make that dollar stretch!
BUT we did forget the roof top deck. Must get up there sometime to enjoy this beautiful Seattle summer.
Dinner and karaoke and drinks and a friends birthday... all good things, right?
Well... they can be.
Breakdown: 4 stars for bartender, 3 for food, 3 for karaoke, 3 for mixed drinks, 2 for general feel of place, 0/5 for waitress.
The first experience was the food. The burgers weren't that great (but okay, I guess) and I went with the cup of veggie soup as my side. Nothing too amazing, but it was definitely edible and not too bad for $6-7 per serving (of burger+side).
The service. HAH! The bartender was great, but the waitress came up to our table MAYBE twice the whole time.... and one of those was when we were getting up and ready to leave.
I was a little bummed about the mixed drinks. I had something delicious that involved Hypnotiq+Malibu Rum+7up+sour and then a Vodka Cran and... well... I felt nothing. The appetizing cocktails went for $7 each, so... I decided I'd rather stop there than spend way too much money on apparently weak drinks.
The karaoke was pretty entertaining and enough people were good. We were just a little annoyed at times because it seemed to take forEVER for some of our group to get called while others were going up rather frequently (and/or shortly after grabbing a table).
Some friends enjoyed some games of pool. Pool tables are good.
I still managed to have a good evening, but... I'm thinking most of it was my friends (and not what Ozzie's has to offer).
It doesn't get one star because I've been to worse.
Much worse.
Oh the bartender was attentive, though. :)
An honest-to-god shithole replete with dumb jocks and the occasional brawl. Prices are outrageous for what you get.
Let me begin by saying that I am a server in a restaurant and am familiar with the difficulties associated with the job. I went there this morning with 7 family members and would never go here again. I was seated for approximately a half an hour before a drink order was ever taken (we were told repeatedly that she would "be right with us") and did not receive said drinks until 45 minutes after I arrived. When we tried to order breakfast and let the server know that we now had only 45 minutes left until we had to leave she said "well if you had let me know I would have gotten your order earlier". She told us that we would not be able to get our breakfast in that amount of time and since we had to be at the ballet we did not have enough time to go somewhere else. Since we were not even able to eat breakfast and were essentially blamed for not informing the server we wanted to eat in a timely manner, I would classify this as the worst breakfast I have ever had. If I were able to give this place 0 stars I would
What a joke... stupid crowd. Gotta love the jock itch/skank crowd that managed to crawl out of their frat/sorority houses to drink at this shithole. Always crowded (every time I've been) with pushy girls and guys that want to fight.
One of my favorite bars. Why? Because it's a huge place (2 bars upstairs, 2 downstairs) and I always have fun every time I come here. The bartenders are really nice too. I've reserved space upstairs for karaoke a couple times and the staff was really accommodating.
AVOID THIS AWFUL ESTABLISHMENT
Last Friday night........ Walked in the door- place REEKED OF PUKE- there's no mistaking that smell.
It smelled like 10 people had just thrown up on the floor. It was awful.
Walked right out. No thanks.
This place sucks- you'd have to be crazy to want to hang out here.
What a dump.
Drinks are fairly pricey for a dive bar and it IS ALWAYS PACKED WITH DUDES.
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13 dollars for a budweiser pitcher=disappointment
Twelve Irish car bombs, several pitchers of beer, and a six pack of Miller thrown in for shits and giggles equals one good time.
Our group of six was in dire need of food after the St. Patrick's dash and beer garden. We took drunk to a whole new level at 10:30 AM on Sunday. Food.
Stumbled into Ozzie's and got a booth almost immediately which was fantastic because the place was packed. There was a special menu and we had a choice of six items. I had the burger, my friend ordered nachos which apparently means fries.
Our waitress was a good sport to put up with us and our antics. The random six pack of Miller was a cherry on top that was given to us. The bartender also gave us mass quantities of green beads to go with our festive running attire. Thank you for continuing to serve us. Really.
Our bill was insane. It was a precursor of the wild time to come. Drunken good times.
Two women walk into a bar. (insert funny punchline here)
After we took in the view from Kerry Park, we were in the mood for a good local brew, so since we didn't know where else to go and we saw the sign for happy hour here, we went in. This place is pretty big and was mostly empty when we got there.
The waitress was a little odd, and she seemed quite bored with her job and us. They had 3 local beers on tap and we decided to try the Manny's pale ale and the onion rings ($2.49 = happy hour price). The beers were 50cents off, for happy hour, which came to $3.50 each which was pretty decent.
The onion rings were actually really really good. I was really surprised because I kind of assumed this place would serve regular frozen-then-fried onion rings, but these appeared to be battered dipped. Not to say they couldn't have been previously frozen, but at least they made a better choice of which frozen ones to buy. They weren't too greasy or too heavy.
They have daily food specials for each weekday, and many more appetizers for happy hour (all for $2.49). Well drinks during happy hour are $3.
Decent place to happen in to, but I don't think I'd go out of my way to come here, especially because I don't live in Seattle. But if i were a local, it seems like it'd be a decent place to hang out and grab a drink while playing pool, or the lottery, or just listening to the jukebox.
Ozzie's doesn't know what it wants, and frankly, I don't know what I want from Ozzie's, to the point that I'm probably never going to speak to "the Oz" again, ever. Everything about this place sends me screaming in the other direction, from the nonsense flooring with missing pieces, to mismatched patterns, to the horrrrriiibbllle karaoke setup. Even though the place was virtually empty we pretty much had to fend for ourselves in the way of getting pitchers of beer from the staff. They couldn't come ask just once?!
The only great thing I can say about this place is that the woman who runs the karaoke is a bit of a kick, and dresses like a wanna-be-rockstar teenager, even though she is clearly neither a rockstar or a teenager. I believe she was rocking an Adidas tennis skirt when I was here. Whaaa?
I like this place for their free pool Sunday through Thursday. And the staff is very nice. I've never actually had a drink there, but the water is good.
Here's the thing...I have a love hate relationship with Ozzie's. I love Ozzie's on a weekday evening after work during happy hour when you have your pick of seating anywhere in the bar and just the regulars are shuffling in and out.
On the other hand, I hate Ozzie's on a busy Friday or Saturday night. It just reminds me of too many frat parties from college. Anyway, they have amazing calzones here and like 20+ beers on tap, which are constantly rotating. They recently renovated their front bar and it has some sleek looking flat panel TVs for catching baseball or football games.
They also have a "Geeks Drink" trivia night on Wednesday nights, which is worth checking out if you're looking for trivia that isn't your typical kind of trivia.
Oh Ozzies...
Literally every time I've been here (and it's gladly been a while) there's been some sort of sloppy UW frat boy fight right next to me that I almost get pulled into.
Drinks aren't cheap on prime nights/times, the atmosphere is in the dumps, and the crowd is generally nasty as well. There's not much to save Ozzies except for the amusement that you might find in these frat boy shenanigans, which isn't much after you've seen just one annoying tool fight.
If you're looking to do karaoke, there's no point here because even when you're upstairs right next to the person singing, you can't hear them, which might be good or bad depending on your point of view... They do have pool tables, not sure if they're expensive or not but they're always taken at night anyway.
It might be different during the day but I would warn against going at night. If you're not a frat boy then you can definitely do better.
Gross gross and grosser, what I imagine hell to be if there is one.
I have however had the random night here- be prepared to not remember much besides pure embarassment, be it through kareoke or just drunkness randomness. This is the place that will get you to that "bad place" in drunkness.
The place is exactly what it is meant to be...a dive bar where you don't need to worry about finding people shooting up in the bathrooms (at least not during the 100 times I have been there before).
The drinks are cheap, the food is cheap, the location is easy, the crowd is there to have fun and the service is like service anywhere outside of the Met grill- sometimes it's great, sometimes it needs serious work.
If you want a very decent small pizza and a beer for under $10, check this place out. if you want to have some drinks before going to a show at Key Arena, check this place out. if you want to wear a fancy shirt and have fancy cocktails, don't check this place out.
Pretty straight forward really.
I've been to Ozzie's more times than I'd like to admit. It is not unusual for you to find a line of people waiting outside on the sidewalk on weekend nights. It's usually filled with white-cap douche bags who think you won't notice if they try to cop a feel while you're trying to navigate through the crowds, until you pinch them as hard as you can on the underside of their upper arms (hypothetically, of course). To make matters worse, the drinks are served in itty-bitty plastic cups with tons of ice. It's the kind of place I could imagine serving as the primary setting of a Dane Cook movie. (He would, of course, play the party guy with the heart of gold.)
Despite the fact that they do have a decent deck that is open during warmer weather during their afternoon happy hour, it's not enough to push them into two-star territory.
Pros:
Got a nice 2.95 happy hour food menu.
Karaoke 7 nights a week w/ 2 rooms on the weekend.
Big screen Big Buck Hunter Safari.
Fun karaoke crowd that actually claps and/or listens (you listening hula hula?)
Weeknights are fun as it doesn't get too crowded.
Staff is friendly.
Cons:
Ummm, fix your urinals... They stopped working for like 2 months and anywhere within a 50 foot range of the bathroom smelled 2x worse than an alley between 1st and 3rd on Pike. Now they just put ice in them and they don't flush. FIX YOUR URINALS!
Its a dive bar, but just because its a dive bar doesn't mean that it needs to be filthy and smell bad. Their Ozzies though so they don't care.
Full of douche bags, frat bros, and sh*tty music in the back on the weekends.
Most of the food 'aint great.
Dive bars serve cheap crummy beer (aka pbr, schlitz, high-life, hamms, session, etc) but the cheapest they have is a bottle of bud light for 4.50.
So go for happy hour sliders (2.95 for three) and buck hunter or go for karaoke with a group on a weekday (always good for b-days or whatever parties). Good times.
Cheers
Me and my fiance come here occasionally for the steak special ($8 I think for a 10 oz steak, baked potato and salad). But that's about it. We're not your bar-mingling type.
I have to agree with many of the other comments. We've had the smug waitress (twice). Prices are decent, usually $8-10 for a burger or sandwich meal. YES, loud obnoxious men swarm to this location (especially on sports event nights). And I'm pretty sure they used "American" swiss cheese on my veggie burger. Ewww...
However, when the timing is right, we still don't mind heading over for nice dine-out meal. It's just hit-and-miss.
I am never going to happy hour here again! I don't know what happened. They used to have a good happy hour with $2 and $3 food options. I came here for happy hour last week hoping to order burger and fries, but they had changed their menu. No more $2 and $3 items and no more burger and fries. =( All their food is now $5. I ordered the fish and chips and was disappointed when I received a plate of fries and 3 overly cooked and brown pieces of fish. My friend best described them as the kind of food you get when you fry in old oil that contains brown bits of past food. My other friends ordered the mozzerella sticks and crispitos. Wasn't impressed with those either.
Next time I am going the extra block or two to Pesos.
This place is a serious fucken maze. I came here for the first time lastnight with some friends, and it seemed like the place kept going and going. We finally made it upstairs.
The place was packed, but we "found..."(took) someone's booth. Four of us walked in and within a few minutes I found myself alone with a bottle of bud.
Five minutes lapse...
Nine of us were sitting down flipping through the karaoke binder for songs. There's Karaoke downstairs and upstairs with a dance floor. The downstairs was packed with older people singing country music which I'm fine with, but we decided to stay upstairs.
There seems to be a bar at every turn. I counted 4. It's nice because you don't ever have to wait too long to get a drink. Drink. Drink. Drink. If I wasn't so drunk I'd look like an idiot dancing and singing karaoke.
Pool.
Food.
Karaoke.
Good (not hot) looking Girls.
Dance floor.
Tons of seating.
Plenty of bars.
So each bottle of bud was $4.50! Doesn't seem to be a big deal when you are drunk, but fuck that's a lot for cheap beer. Good thing we were nicely wrecked before we came and didn't have to spend much.
Five stars for a night of drunken debauchery and finding a ride home!
A great place to go if you just turned 21. I have had alot of fun memories (well i not really memories because i well..you get the idea). However, if you go there after you have turned 27, you will feel out of place.
Ozzies, you are my nightmare-come-reality. It smells like a frat house, it pretty much looks like a frat house (sticky floors, bad karaoke setup, just hodge podge), you attract clientelle that are currently in frats, and you're shameless. The two times I've been here a drunk tard has spilled his drink on me (once slicing my toe because he slammed down his drink on the floor right before "brawling" some other tard and a shard of glass cut me). Just plain douchebaggery. But if you're 21...23 tops and are into that sort of thing...then by all means...you may enjoy yourself.
There are probably people who love Ozzie's for its dive bar atmosphere and karaoke laughs, but I had the misfortune to try it for breakfast with friends recently and the experience in a word was...bleccch.
To be fair, Ozzie's probably gains much from the cover of nightfall, but he interior is bargain-basement-mid-70's-dive-bar, although I kind of like the old school Rat Pack era exterior. The main dining area smelled...bad, like really strong man-stink B.O. (?), so my group had to move into the bar area to spare our appetites.
But to pick on a place like Ozzie's for the interior decorating is so beside the point, and the point at a place like this is to get messed up as fast as possible but at 11:30am that just wasn't happening. Our server was friendly but overwhelmed by a few pre-Bumbershoot tourists and it was clear that she and the bartender weren't up to the challenge. 10 minutes to get menus, 15 min. to get our orders taken, another 10 just to get the drinks delivered, another 20 at least to get simple breakfast food served (which was standard issue greasy-spoon), and still my order didn't arrive with the other dishes, appearing 5 minutes later.
I made it abundantly clear that we needed checks RIGHT AWAY and of course we got ignored, so once we finally got the bill we resorted to walking it up to the bartender who was visibly flustered at having to disturb her routine to run it. How much better can things be on a packed Friday night with drunk frat boys crowding the bar?
Yeah...I won't be back to find out.
The first time we stopped in I was wearing a sweatshirt and didn't feel out of place. The second time a going out dress and I didn't feel out of place. This is a fun place to go.
Lots and lots of bars to purchase beer and drinks from. Pools tables in the backs. Lots and lots of areas to stand or sit. People who wear belt buckles come here and people who pop their collars come here. Mixed bag crowd y'all... it can be entertaining. But it can also sometimes feel like a college bar crowd...
You really shouldn't start singing Coldplay ballads at 11 pm on a Thursday night, karaoke doesn't mean making everyone else suffer.
Another tip? Don't hastily throw together a last minute Malibu promotion and not know what the hell is going on. Girls walking around in tanktops asking people to shake the coconuts (har dee har har, I get the "funny") for a free shirt and $1 Malibu drinks is standard ... but THEN:
Taking the tickets to the bar for said dollar drinks and having the bartender get all worked up that he has to serve them for so cheap. What the eff, this is YOUR promotion! Know it! Live it! And the waitress was all kinds o' cranky pants on top of it. (Maybe she wanted to be the one asking people to shake coconuts)
And I still hate Malibu. With a passion. Banana/Coconut + Vodka is the devil. I'm keeping the free beads though.
Okay, I might be a little biased, being a 27-year-old woman who expects a lot from a bar, dive or otherwise, but honestly, this is a college-y sports bar that could be anywhere in the US. Lots of drunken shenanigans, lots of draft beer (my friend who ordered a Stoli Razz and 7-Up had to send her drink back TWICE to get the 7-Up portion correct), and lots of noise.
They do have great TVs to watch a game, the karaoke seemed to be a wide and eclectic selection, but the crowd made me feel super-old and cranky. Our waitress (we got there early and my friends decided to skip dinner at Peso's (!!!!!) to eat there and continue getting soused) was never to be seen and neither of my two very small requests (a pitcher of water and some extra mayo for my incredibly-horrible chicken club sandwich) were met.
I think it's the kind of place that college alums flock in order to recapture that magic of being 20, drinking underage in a bar. If that's the intent, Ozzie's should get a 5 from me. But I don't think it is.....
The barstaff was friendly enough but the patrons were not....I left at 10:30pm on a Saturday...super disappointing!
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