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Long-Running Gastropub EastBurn Has Closed

Open since 2008, the bar was home to weekly comedy nights, open mics, and trivia, as well as brunch and Bloody Marys.
Avatar photo by Katherine Chew Hamilton

The EastBurn, a gastropub, taproom, and host to multiple weekly community events, has closed. Though a sign on the business’s door states that the bar is closed for “Staff Meeting & Maintenance,” a former employee who wished not to be named confirmed the permanent closure to the Mercury on Wednesday, June 10, citing slow business […]

Posted inFood and Drink

Good Girl Is the Central Eastside’s New “Slutty Goth Dive Bar”

Good Girl takes over the spot formerly occupied by Home, A Bar.
Avatar photo by Ben Coleman

There’s a Playboy from 2003 sitting at the end of the bar, across from a cluttered gallery wall of gilded religious iconography lit by a row of guttering candles. Golden light flickers across the millennial centerfold’s golden skin as she poses demurely on pale satin sheets. At the door, a couple of drag queens are […]

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