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    The Little Red Hen

    3.7 (226 reviews)
    Closed 4:00 pm - 12:00 am (Next day)

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    THE LITTLE RED HEN ATMOSPHERE

    What's the vibe?
    Divey
    Casual
    Very loud
    Live music

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    Fries and a White Russian
    David F.

    If you're here for the food you're doing something wrong. The dancing is a blast and the live music is fun. Lots of strangers and partner swapping on the dance floor. Busy on the weekends. The fries are tasty and they'll even make you a White Russian.

    A busy Monday
    Janae G.

    As an Appalachian native living in Seattle, this place is a slice of the best parts of home. People are friendly and welcoming if you treat them the same way. Drinks are affordable and good bang for your buck, don't expect a craft cocktail, get your vodka redbull or your modelo and take it easy. Line dancing on Mondays is so fun and very busy from what I've seen. Karaoke on Wednesdays is always a blast. Took all my coworkers of many different ages and backgrounds and everyone had a blast. These are good people and this is a fun place!

    Open Mic Night Performance
    Kevin H.

    I went for Sunday Open Mic night hosted by Billy Bodacious. I don't frequently listen to country, but was refreshing to hear the local Seattle musicians play a mix of country classics and original songs. Everyone was super friendly and welcoming for me jumping on stage and playing some original songs. I stuck around for the evening and got to play a second set of songs, backed by a bunch of great musicians who more than did a solid job keeping up with my songs and making them pop.

    Colleen K.

    Always love visiting Little Red Hen, I have so many memories from going here in college and my early 20s. Lots of great music and dancing. I wish they cleaned up the seating areas a bit though - the front was pretty full so we sat in the back section away from the bar. There were chairs stacked in the corner, a little messy all around. This place is a lot of fun but would be even better with some simple upgrades to the atmosphere. Will definitely be back on another night with live music though!!

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    Best dive bar in the city! Love the atmosphere and karaoke. Always a good vibe and the bartenders do not skimp on the pours.

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    Love The little Red Hen! Great people, staff & guests. Awesome music!! A great time. Even with a full house, great service!

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    cheap drinks great music fun vibe nice staff!! what more would you want????? 10/10 recommend

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    Disappointed in the lack of country music at the country bar on line dancing night. That's all

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    I personally love this little bar. They have live music most nights, dance lessons on Thursday's, and affordable drinks.

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    Ask the Community - The Little Red Hen

    Can you get in if you are under 21 (but older than 18) just for the dancing?

    No. Little Red Hen is a Bar that is 21+ only

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    Review Highlights - The Little Red Hen

    Country music and stiff drinks with a healthy dollop of people-watching as the place began to fill up.

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    Not really a place to eat inasmuch as a place to just hang out, have drinks and - most importantly…read more- sing your heart out in karaoke no matter your skill level! My friends and I came here on a Wednesday night around 8pm and basically spent all of our time out in the front where the bar is since that's where open karaoke is. To queue songs to sing, you need to use a website called Healsonic to search for the song titles or artist names (you get to it using a QR code). You write down your initials, the song number of the song you want to sing and the song title, then pass it to someone behind the counter to the immediate left of the entrance. Song choices are not limited to just songs in English; you can choose songs from a variety of languages, and I got a chance to sing one of my favorite Cantonese oldies at one point. From past experiences singing karaoke here, there's always at least one mic out of the two passed around the crowd that isn't working properly and I end up singing louder than needed on that one mic. Regardless, my friends and I have always had a great time laughing, testing our vocals and just enjoying ourselves as if we were clubbing! I haven't yet been to any of their karaoke rooms, though I do hear prices for them are relatively high from others who've used them. One of my friends and I got their My Melody drink, which consists of coconut cream, pineapple and a pink sugar rim. Drink tasted kinda cheesy... literally. Must have been the cream but I downed the drink fast; it was refreshing for the environment (though a little heavy on the vocal cords) and not too sweet. It is on the pricier end, about $8 before tax. This is a well-run place regardless of the number of people that fill up open karaoke and the karaoke rooms themselves. Staff are friendly and acommodating especially with refilling water, following up on karaoke queuing mistakes and serving drinks. I see myself and my friends coming back here more often!

    One of the best experiences I've had in Seattle…read more Disclaimer: it is a bit pricey. Two hour karaoke. For two people and two alcoholic beverages was a whopping $80!!!!!!!!! We went on a Wednesday night around 10 pm. They had a wipe selection of songs. The rooms were clean. The sound was great. Overall a great and magnificent experiment. Only down side is prepare to spend a pretty penny.

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    Would I return? Probably not…read more I went for a friend's birthday celebration, and compared to other karaoke spots I've been to, there were some noticeable drawbacks. First, the song selection system wasn't the easiest to use. The device, tucked into the corner of the room, had a lot going on--options to order food, search by language, browse top songs, etc.--which is great in theory, but I didn't find it very user-friendly. I searched for Alicia Keys, Lady Gaga, and Rosé, but none of them showed up. I must've done something wrong, but I couldn't figure it out, so I resorted to scrolling through artists alphabetically. Another issue was the lyrics on the screen-- the highlighted words didn't match up with the song, making it hard to sing along if you didn't already know the lyrics by heart. On top of that, there was no way to skip intros or interludes, so you had to sit through the full music video unless you skipped the song entirely. Also, no tambourine in the room? Is that not a thing anymore? I wanted to play along while my friends sang, but apparently, that wasn't an option. Lastly, the way our session ended felt abrupt. I'm used to getting a time check before our booking is up, but instead, we were just told to leave when our time was over. It wasn't a huge deal, but it did feel a little rushed. Overall, we had fun, but the experience could've been better.

    Very friendly workers showed us how to work the system. We had a great time and I love that you can…read moreuses YouTube or Spotify if the built in software doesn't have the song you want. I didn't try the food but the service for the drinks was great. I would definitely recommend going here for a night out with friends or family.

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    There was a small group of us who'd gone in for trivia night. It's a funky little place with a…read morescattering of tables in the front, pool tables towards the back (which are irrelevant for trivia night, of course), and benches on either side of the pool tables. Fortunately, we'd gotten there early enough to secure a nice table that fit all 6 of us comfortably. Reasonable selection of draught beers and a full bar. I got the Jellyfish IPA, which I hadn't had before. It's a local west coast-style IPA that was pretty good. I covered some of my friends' drinks across the evening (we traded off throughout the evening), and when I got the final bill at the end of the night, the bill seemed outrageously low. I felt bad, so I padded the bill with a good tip. FYI, the folks working behind the bar were so nice! They remembered me each time I went up to the counter and addressed me by name. It was a nice touch. Trivia night was so much fun! Our team didn't do exceptionally well, but we're going to have to come back and try again!

    I came here for karaoke on a Tuesday night and found the experience disappointing…read more Ambience was mediocre at best; the space was blandly decorated and slightly cramped (not sure having a pool table in the middle of that limited space is the greatest idea), with awkward positioning of the bar counter such that the entrance area was too crowded. The staff seemed distracted, but they at least did not appear to be cranky or hostile. The karaoke selection was lacking, and as a queer man I was uncomfortable seeing that all David Bowie songs were pointedly crossed out in the books. Reviews had suggested that the Monkey Pub, despite being located in the U District, had a clientele of more than just college students; this may be true on non-karaoke nights, but when I went, it had the same college-kid crowd as anywhere else in the neighborhood. Drink selection was average. Indeed, the bar itself was largely average. I found no evidence of anything particularly dramatically terrible on my visit to the Monkey Pub, but nothing to get excited about either. Only worth it for karaoke if you're desperate. Probably an okay place to get a drink, but I didn't really detect much of the character and "local flavor" that usually makes a good dive bar worth the trip.

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    Hula Hula

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    Bartenders are absolutely wonderful (but the drinks can be pricey). KJ Shan is also wonderful and…read morethere's a great, wide selection of songs. The tablets for entering your info and song run terribly slow. Bathrooms are clean and well-stocked, though not labeled well--women's restroom is straight down the hall, men's is to the right just after the photo booth. Unless they're meant to be unisex, but I don't think that's the case? This place is PACKED wall to wall after 8pm Fridays and Saturdays, and I've never dropped in those nights where it wasn't an upbeat and pretty cheery vibe. When I say packed, I mean that you should wear an outfit where you can take off layers, because it gets WARM. On the weekends the song queues can get LONG but you're able to manually check where you're at in line via the tablets. If you wanna leave before 12am, get there and put your song in no later than 8pm. Expect a $5 cover on weekends, too, though sometimes it's $10. Which is crazy. And yet, I still pay it... People are super nice and if you aren't bringing a posse out with you, a lot of folks don't mind you sitting with them at their tables if it's busy and they have an extra seat open. A lot of times people will get down by the stage and dance to songs people are performing, which is just the best when it happens. All in all, the Hula Hula crowd tends to have a great mindset for karaoke. All about having a good time to good music.

    Been here 3 times befire but yesterday was rhe first time i paid with my card. They charged my card…read moreover $136 and then charged my friends cards for our drinks that we already paid for. They take advantage of drunk customers! DO NOT GO

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    I love this neighborhood gay karaoke bar, and have been coming for 45 years, back when you could…read morestill smoke inside! It's not as divey as it was then, but at 80 years old and Seattle's oldest gay bar, it's a treasure. Fun and friendly, not your cruisy stand-and-model variety. People actually talk to you, and the stellar staff knows you almost immediately. It's Cheers for the queer tribe.

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    The Little Red Hen - karaoke - Updated August 2026

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