Beer parlor · Food · Billiards · Est. 1917

Food. Drinks. Blues. History.

Tacoma’s oldest tavern, still on 30th in Old Town. Broasted chicken and jo’s. Drafts at happy hour. A band when the week asks for one. The brick has been doing this longer than most of the city.

Call (253) 627-8215 See the menu Order takeout

Open every dayMon–Thu 11–9 · Fri–Sun 11–10

Happy hourDaily · $2 off apps, drafts, wells

Broasted chicken & jo’sThe plate people name first

Live musicBlues nights and weekend bands

What’s on the bar

Henny Penny chicken. Jo’s. A mushroom burger.

They broast the chicken. Locals will tell you the jo’s are the point — wedges for the house sauce. Fish and chips. Wings. A patty melt on rye. The Mediterranean plate if you want something cooler than the fryer.

Happy hour is every day: $2 off appetizers, all draft beers, well drinks, and select wines. Times on their board have read 3–5:30 and 3:30–5. We’ll confirm before anyone prints a card.

Not only fried

Hummus, olives, the cooler plates. A tavern that still cooks.

Off the fryer

Fish when the kitchen is running it. Ask what’s on tonight.

A bowl that steams

The room still feeds people who came for a pint and stayed for dinner.

The board

What we can stand behind.

Items and prices from The Spar’s own pages and current takeout listings. The fryer changes. Confirm at the bar before you quote a number.

Live music

Blues nights. Weekend bands. The room is the room.

The Spar has been a music tavern as long as people have been calling it that. The calendar lives on their site. Private events too — they have a page for it. Call if you want the back for a gathering.

This week’s music Private events

Old Town

Before this brick, a wood saloon.

The Old Tacoma Saloon stood here first. Prohibition closed that chapter. In 1917 the David Building went up. The Radonich brothers ran furnishings, billiards, a soda parlor. In 1926 they added a lunch counter and named it The Spar.

Ownership changed hands after the 1950s. Kathy Manke took the keys in 1987 and kept the tavern a tavern. The Manke family is still in the room. Regulars still call themselves Spar-flies.

Beer parlor. Food. Billiards. Est. 1917.

That’s what the awning says. We left it alone.

From the kitchen

Plates, not the brick again.

Come by

Hours & location

2121 N 30th St
Tacoma, WA 98403

(253) 627-8215

Monday–Thursday · 11am – 9pm

Friday–Sunday · 11am – 10pm

Happy hour daily. Live music on the calendar. Billiards in the house.

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Food. Drinks. Blues. History.