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Our good friends at the Bottleneck sent out an email this morning to let everybody know that they'll be closed this Sunday and Monday for renovation: "The lounge is expanding and we need a couple of days to take down a wall and regroup. We will re-open at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, August 18th. Can we build it? Yes we can!!" The remodel is just in time for the bar's viewing party for the first episode of the new season of Top Chef, featuring two Seattle competitors, Robin Leventhal (formerly of Crave) and Ashley Merriman of Branzino.

One of our favorite bars in all of Seattle celebrates its second birthday today. The tiny, cozy, always friendly Bottleneck starts the party at 8 p.m. tonight with an hour of free champagne, which we could never turn down. At 9 they'll debut their new cocktail menu, with specials on Skyy vodka drinks and bloody marys all night. Since the traditional gift for a second anniversary is cotton, the bar will be giving away cotton t-shirts (and more) every 15 minutes until close from breweries and other local supporters like PBR, Georgetown Brewery, Skillet, Capitol Hill Seattle, and Babeland. Once again, Bottleneck, we raise our glass to thee.

Today marks the 75th anniversary of the end of Prohibition via the 21st Amendment, a.k.a. Repeal Day. It's hard to fathom that for thirteen sad, dark years (1920 to 1933), our fine country was dry (or at least, legally so). Considering earlier this week was also the 75th anniversary of the bloody mary, there's twice as much to celebrate this year.

We're pretty sure we've never watched the Kentucky Derby. Often dubbed "the most exciting two minutes in sports," the 134th(!) Run for the Roses takes place tomorrow at Churchill Downs (6:10 p.m. EDT, so 3:10 p.m. here). Not that it really matters, but Florida Derby winner Big Brown is the 3-1 favorite to win.

It seems like it was just last week that we were gushing over the Bottleneck Lounge. Oh yeah, that was just last week. Well, we're talking about them again. In honor of the Gay Superbowl, the Central District bar is hosting a party:

The Bottleneck Lounge, located at 23rd and Madison, has quickly become one of our favorite bars. Both the staff and the patrons are overwhelmingly friendly, and it's the kind of joint where you end up getting chatty with the bartender or the couple next to you, or where another customer might close out the night by buying a shot for everyone in the bar. Laid-back without being divey, the Bottleneck is just plain chill. We're not the only ones who have come to appreciate the Central District establishment. The bar just celebrated its one-year anniversary with a mention in the Seattle Times as one of the best happy hours in town.