The Coupe & Flute

The Coupe & Flute took over a shuttered travel agency on Beacon Hill in June 2022 and turned it into what its owners call a champagne tavern — an art-deco room lined with sparkling wine, run by Brooke St. Sauver and Curt Waller, a married couple, neither of whom is a trained sommelier. That last fact is deliberate rather than a gap. Waller's description of the intent is the best summary of the place: they are down to earth and very accessible, they wanted a space that felt like an extension of their home, and he likes to say it feels like a little piece of Europe landed in Seattle. There is something about champagne, he adds, that makes it feel like you are treating yourself. The kitchen is more ambitious than the word tavern suggests — deviled tea eggs at $10, Dungeness crab cakes at $28, kimchi arancini at $16, a French onion soup at $16, and caviar service running from $112 to $182 — plus weekend brunch with a braised duck benedict at $22.

The non-alcoholic list is the most carbonation-led in the city, which makes complete sense in a bar built on bubbles. It sits under its own Zero Proof heading and runs six or seven deep. Bitter Patience at $15 is a non-alcoholic Negroni assembled from three separate products — Giffard aperitif, Wilderton Citrus and Pathfinder — rather than one bottled shortcut, and it is the ambitious one. The Dirty Divino at $14 is the closest thing here to a dirty martini, built as a highball from Grove non-alcoholic vermouth with olive brine and soda. We Got the Beet at $15 puts beet juice and orgeat against Wilderton Citrus and lime. Mt. Kamigami at $14 is matcha syrup with orange, lime and soda. Scarlet Pimpernel and Garden Party round it out at $16 and $15. But the single most important item for a non-drinker in a champagne bar is the wine itself, and there is one: Vinada de-alcoholised Chardonnay, poured by the glass at $13 and by the bottle at $42 — which means you can share a bottle at the table like everyone else. Fremont's non-alcoholic IPA is $8. Names on this list rotate, so check the board.