Space Room
Space Punch: raspberry and vanilla vodka, orange and cranberry juice, sweet-and-sour mix. $7.
Erase Your Face: We so do not want to know. $10.
Volcano Bowl: Uh, there was a lot of rum, and fruit juice. And cinnamon? It was 28 ounces. $28.
Gypsy Juice: rum, rum, rum, cherry and pineapple juice, Sprite. 64 ounces, $20.
The Zombie: rum, pineapple, lemon, bitters and a whole lot of Squirt. 60 ounces. $23.
Five Fireplaces
Tonic Lounge 3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Tonic's two fireplaces, one of them in the sunken bar, lend the former strip club a ski-chalet ambience.
Hutch on Holgate 4515 SE 41st Ave. The former family restaurant's frontier-themed basement has bas-relief panels over the hearth.
Cheerful Tortoise 1939 SW 6th Ave. One of those circular, false-log deals with an enormous blackened flue.
Blue Moon 432 NW 21st Ave. Another circular hearth, this one surrounded by a tile counter for fire-lit dining.
Vault 226 NW 12th Ave. A stately white number, with cover art from the Cocteau Twins' Lullabies EP hanging above it.
Drink Some Coffee
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Taqueria Los Gorditos
Gorditos' animal-friendly pileup makes great strides in the direction of a just world in which vegans can pretend they're eating meat as nasty and contaminated as the grisly garbage carnivores consume. Take them next door to
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Esparza's shredded-pork nachos are an especially happy-making concoction of warm chips right out of the fryer, topped by a thick stratification of sweet pork and a heavy blanket of cheese.
. The chips are piping hot; the perfectly melted cheese attains almost total coverage while developing a subtle crust at the edges of the plate; sour cream zigs and zags across the entire outer layer; and the salsa, devilish agent of sogginess, gets its own small bowl.
Laurelwood Public House
Has a play area for the tots.
Offers both a kids' menu and crayons.
Has an even better play area than Laurelwood.
Has kid food and outdoor seating.
Bring 'em in for air hockey until 9 pm.
WWeek 2015