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Rock Bottom's...with the GIANT salads, I understand why this is a favorite of the BigGuy:

Beer:
Five house brews, all top-fermented ales, including Faller Wheat (a pale golden wheat ale), Pea Shooter Pale Ale, Raccoon Red, Brown Bear Brown, and Flying Salmon Stout. Like the brews served at the Rock Bottom in Portland, a consistent quality of Rock Bottom's beers seems to be that they are all rather light, perhaps reflecting the somewhat homogenized standards of a brewpub chain with operations in major cities across the USA; Rock Bottom has over a dozen stores across the USA, plus other operations, including the Old Chicago chain, the ChopHouse and Brewery, and the Walnut Brewery.
Food:
Fine range of bistro food, in some cases several notches up from standard tavern fare, and served in generous portions, including appetizers, soups, gigantic salads, and several bountiful pasta dishes, and a few southwestern-cuisine-accented platters. Dinner fare adds substantial main-course entrees. Prices, however, are not at the same low-to-moderate level as, say, the McMenamins places, as one might expect when ordering salmon cakes or steak dinners. Late-night menu is in effect for the last hour before kitchen closes.

Atmosphere:
Opened on September 9, 1996; owing to differences in location and layout, the Seattle store is rather unlike its Portland counterpart. Lunches are big business here, with power-suited yuppies well-represented, with a mix of tourists and other visitors in the summertime. Evenings are quieter, even at weekends, and weekend evenings are a bit quieter (so far) than at the Portland store, though there are still plenty of folks enjoying dinner and beers. The elements common to all of the Rock Bottom brewpubs are there, including the light touch with the beers, the somewhat upscale food menu, and the rather more yupscale clientele on weekdays. There are also pool tables off by the bar area, and an outdoor patio in front for the nice-weather days. For more information, have a look at the Rock Bottom web page. For those who like this sort of thing, there are also Rock Bottom outlets in Bellevue, and for those of you headed southward, in Portland.

Cheers. ;-)

It is true that Rock Bottom is a large chain, and I think in some of the other states where it exists, it goes under a different name....

But their food is really delicious, and their steaks are out of this world...

Sometimes its really busy there, depending on what time you get there....its in the heart of downtown, near lots of business offices and such...in fact, the first time BigDom and I suggested to Andy that we go there(because of a referral from a friend in Chicago, where RockBottom goes under a different name, I think), Andy said he was already familiar with the restaurant, as often him and friends from work(when he did work, in Seattle), would go there after work, and always very much liked it...