Peso's Expansion Dangerously Tips Meat Market Scale

The combined meat between Ozzie's and the newly expanding Pesos's would put this picture to shame. Photo courtesy of the Seattle Municipal Archives from our Flickr pool.

The ratio of slutty meat market square footage to respectable business space on Lower Queen Anne is reaching a critical tipping point with Peso’s expansion drawing to a close.

While the nearby Spectator and Mecca remain stable, growth up the block is surging as demand for pseudo-tapas and $7 happy hour margaritas skyrockets. This formidable lure has proven an effective draw for white guys in backwards white hats* and clingy women with heavy eye makeup.

Upon completion of the expansion, the Peso's block will now qualify as Seattle's official resident embassy for the City of Kirkland.

Combining Peso's clean-cut lust with the free-for-all drunken karaoke fest that is nearby Ozzie's**, area residents should expect nothing short of Caligulan orgies throughout the Mercer and Queen Anne Avenue corridors before summer’s end.

We aren’t saying that’s a bad thing, but those with a low threshold for sleaze should take note.

* All-white hats go hand in hand with Dave Matthews adoration and a generally boring mindset. Any baseball cap representing a popular out-of-state team (i.e., Boston, New York, or L.A.) is weak sauce unless you're from there, in which case you still run the risk of being labeled an empty frontrunner, and deservedly so.

** We don’t have any problems with Ozzie's--it’s unpretentious, the bartenders are prompt and don’t play awkward eye contact/power games, and while the women lean to the trashy at times, they come to party, not to look down their noses. Nothing wrong with that.