Four B’s

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I finally visited the famed Four Bs, most certainly the most popular bar in all of Fre-​Lard (other than Hale’s). I had heard so much about it, being around for years and years and being a very chill, comfortable bar with cheap beer and pool tables a plenty.
I walked in and was immediately aware of being the only female in the entire bar. I quickly scanned throngs and throngs of men for a another female. somewhere…AH! One by the video poker machine. I was afraid it was like, men’s night and I missed the memo. I also saw another one playing pool, so phew. 3 women, 40 – 50 men. Still weirded out. Did they all come on a big bus together? Is this a stop on the world’s biggest Bachelor Night? They all dressed similar and drank pitchers of beer, all 50 of them. Damn right I counted them all. I sipped my drink and observed the anthropological wonderment.
I wish this review had more important and helpful information for you all. Perhaps this is a service announcement for the ladies– if you’re interested in finding an available gentleman that likes beer in the Ballard/​Fremont area and you’re looking for chances higher than shooting fish in a barrel, look no further.

We get to Ballard about once a year, and stop in here every time. Seahawks on big screen, excellent drinks, friendly staff & good service. We’ve always just had appetizer kind of lunches before, but they now offer breakfast on Sunday. Both of my companions said their breakfasts were great, and they both finished every bite. My breakfast, not so much. Potatoes were cold and over-​medium eggs were very undercooked. Bartender said she’d take it off the bill (she did). Later, the cook came out to apologize and offered to remake it for me, on the house, but I declined. Very nice of him, though, and I appreciated it. When we get back to Ballard next year, we’ll stop here again.

Has really grown on me. The absolute spot for blood marys. Fun environment. Good bar food. Wish the seats had cushions tho

WORST PLACE EVER~~~~~
When I walked in is smelled like a dirty ashtray. The burger was good. Played pool for a couple of hours. Got ready to leave and noticed my Iphone was missing. Figured out who did it and the bartender confirmed it cuz the idiot left a stolen credit card behind. Called the Police and wound up leaving after and hour and a half and when they did not show.

Such a sketch location, so creepy, so secretive, but their $ 5 burger makes it 4 stars! Yummm! So my friend and I come here to try their burger as he was craving for some. We Unilocaled and googled it and still didn’t see the name anywhere until we looked on the side and there it was, oddly on the building. We walk in, and literally, it feels like we’ve walked into a weird pool hall, dive bar dungeon. There’s pool tables straight ahead, thick smells of old cigarettes/​ash trays, and pin ball tables/​games surrounding the walls. Seriously, it was such an awkward feel. Nobody is here to greet us, we are uncertain if it’s a bar or not because it didn’t say it was. There’s people playing pool and at the bar ordering food. How odd, hmm…
We akwardly walk towards the bar. It’s small. Like seriously 2 bartenders/​our servers, with a cook on the far left side back. We see a sign for a $ 5 burger deal so I get that. We take a peak at the menu too just to check things out. Lots of things like soup, burgers, sandwiches, apps. My friend orders a bacon burger, which is about $ 7 and comes with fries. Let me just say that it was so awkward ordering. My friend asks the bartender/​server several questions about the food, and she awkwardly answers. It’s loud, he can’t hear her, so she just stares at him. He can’t hear her, so he stares at her. It’s so weird. She’s not very welcoming, or social. But we finally order that and ask about drink specials. She makes him some sweet but strong drink. I wish the cups were bigger for the price of drinks. Literally it was like $ 7-​$ 8 for a 3 inch glass. I mean, it was nice of her to give him the glass and she topped it off, I just thought it would be worth more if they gave bigger glasses.
I ordered a tasty and yummy hard cider with fireball. So dayum tasty!!! I can’t believe it was like $ 11 for the drink, but I suppose it was worth it since I loved it and drank every drop of it. I love hard cider, and it’s the only type of «beer» I drink. We get our food about 15 minutes after, or less, and it is so tasty. I must say the burgers are so juicy, thick, and tasty. I loved how flavorful it was, and how it wasn’t bland or small. The patty tasted homemade and mixed with sausage. It was bomb. It also came with a basket of fries which is plentiful enough! Then the bartender gives us a bucket of sauces which I thought was so cute!
Overall, I thought the service was awkward, but pretty good at the end. Drinks are a bit pricey to me. I would rate the food a definite ⁴⁄₅ stars but the awkward ordering and entrance gave it a 3 stars. Plus, the cigarette smell and dungeon feel also knocked a few stars. But yes, again, I must say that their burgers are worth every dollar. Let the juices drip from your lips baby!

been coking here for years every so often. lots of beer pretty ok food. fun games and lots of pool tables.

Total bs, specials that don’t exist posted and rude staff. Not to mention the beer is ridiculously priced for a dive bar.

Great place. Sucks that Tazz and the other great bar staff aren’t there anymore.

This is a relatively large bar and can accommodate many people. When I walked into this bar for the first time I heard early 90s hip hop being jammed. They have one of those digital jukeboxes. Cool thing about it is even if they don’t already have your favorite tunes you can set up your own profile on the jukebox and import additional songs that aren’t already loaded. I like the fact that they have many pool tables. It’s nice to be able to play at your own speed without someone breathing down your neck to take the table away. Other games include big game hunter, two golf games, a pinball machine, and SKIBALL! Oh ya, they also have one of those basketball games where you can physically shoot the ball into the hoop… love that game. When my group went up to the bar for some tequila shots he recommended chasing it with some pickle juice… some of my friends did it, but I was skeptical and just stuck to the salt and lime. Reasonable prices for drinks. Have yet to try the food… don’t know if I ever will, but if I do I will update my post

I like playing pool here. 2 days a week its free. Decent drinks, nice staff. Not the place to take your lady, but a night out with the boys is a different story. Normal blue collar people. There is a bad ratio of women to men their. Maby one lady for every 15 guys. Kind of lame, and sometimes theirs a lot of drunkin fisherman that will try to pick fights or try to hit on your girl. But most of them can barely stand up, so i dony feel very threatened. but if your real laid back you might not like it. I just tell em to f*** off, but 7 out of 10 times this placce is pretty fun.

This place is pretty fun compared to most other bars in the area… lots of pool tables. big buck hunter safari, and good nightly specials. They also have darts and TV’s for sports. definitely my kind of bar! Minus one star because I’ve been here several times, and for being in «the industry» I know that the ‘tude is not always necessary to use on every customer! I work in a bar because its fun, not becuase I like being cranky.

As we were preparing to leave the four B’s the bouncer was going around the room trying to oust everyone. Fine. ok. It was one thirty, and as I was leaving, he told me to get out. So as I was making my exit: I said «hey, I’m waiting for my friend.» He said… and this is a direct quote:
«I will rape his f*cking as$.»
Now I don’t know about you, but is this an ok thing to say EVER? I think not.

I would have given Four B’s Four Stars for the entrainment value alone of watching the bouncer do a couple sets of push ups in the parking lot to GET PUMPED before his shift.
Sadly, I had to remove one of Four B’s Four Stars because of the insanely high priced bar food, and the aforementioned bouncer who spent the first 15 minutes of his shift running around and carding everyone. (Newsflash: We’ve all ordered drinks and are more than halfway done with them, and most of us were already carded then.)

Is it Ballard’s Best Burgers & Brew? Butts Boobs Beer Bust? Ballers Bedouins Bananas & Be-​Boppers? Much if not endless discussion has ensued regarding the B’s in the 4 B’s name.
This is in tribute to a bar that actually makes me feel like I have left the ridiculous hipster mecca that I live in (and will grudgingly admit to being guilty by association with).
Thank you to the Four B’s for being «real» — you walk in. It’s a bar. You get stiff drinks, and lots of options for beer. Adept waitstaff. The food is actually improving, though it has never been bad! The burgers, pita/​hummus, chicken strips meal — all really good, and don’t make me fear for the health of my bowels. My only disagreement here is with the bathrooms — not the most pleasant place, and today I will refrain from details and we’ll just leave it at that. I’ve been to the 4 B’s over many years and it’s a great place for birthday parties and just hanging out getting drinks in a non-​pretentious atmosphere that is an endangered species in these parts.
To enhance my review, I would like to write about my last visit to this establishment, the Saturday of the Fremont Solstice Fest. We were just chillin’ in the main area, getting some food… and the couple at the table next to us, who I was paying little attention to beforehand starts arguing somewhat loudly. We swivel our heads over collectively to catch the gal (who is wearing a tube top, I might add) about to throw a beer (gasp!) at her male companion. The bartender warns her to «leave her beer alone» and she quickly grabs the ketchup! Oh yeah! Things are getting exciting! Although I suddenly realized I was probably in harms way, being a mere three feet away — it didn’t matter. There was a struggle as the man grabbed her ketchup clutching paw to resist the onslaught of red goo, fries were wrastled and flung about the table and onto the floor. In this slight squabble, her tube top came down. Yes, I saw her exposed boob which she neglected to fix. (gasp x2!) And as soon as it had begun, it was over… she stormed out while Pirate guy (oh yeah, forgot to add that this fellow was dressed like a pirate! Integral detail!!) goes over and sits at the bar. I would like to add that no one was hurt, except for the poor gals heart and maybe a little pride on both their parts. I didn’t ever catch what the fight was actually about, though my table mate overheard something about «not calling for three hours». I’m sure it was a little deeper than that, but one never knows! After the kerfuffle, our lovely waitress came over and was like «What happened!!! Tell me all the deets!!» and of course we were happy to give her the play by play. She jokingly remarked «I don’t work at a dive bar for the pay!» — She, too, clearly relishing the slight overtone of Jerry Springer type phenomena that can happen suddenly in the blink of an eye or exposed breast, as may be the case.
I will continue to be a happy patron here, it hasn’t gone the way of the Sloop quite yet. AND there is PARKING! Hell yes.

The first time I came here, we had a blast playing pool and drinking good beer. The people are friendly and cool, music is excellent, beer is always delicious… my kind of bar. The food always looked good and we’d heard positive reviews, so on our second visit, our friend (a local) suggested we head back to the 4 B’s for a brew and a bite. Sounded good to us… I was anxious to try the food. It was tough to pick something from the alluring menu, but I suggested that my husband and I split the nachos, which were delicious! My cider and the guys’ beers were extra crisp and tasty, too.
It wasn’t until later that night that we realized we had food poisoning. Our friend didn’t have any nachos and he was fine, but my husband and I were vomiting all night. I really didn’t want to blame the nachos, but this was the first time we’d eaten together that day, so it seemed the likely culprit.
I’ll go back to this place because it’s a great pub, but I won’t eat the nachos again, no matter how yummy they were. :(

I was here last night, maybe my fifth time and had a great time with friends. The food is always good! I had the burger dip (my first burger dip ever), and it was really really good. The drinks are always strong, the type where it’s your first one and you can barely get it down. Not to mention, the bartenders are cool enough to act like they actually like you.
It’s a dive but a great place to go if you are in the area and want cheap drinks and good food.

This is one of the greatest bars in the area. For all those who can’t deal with the yuppiness of Fremont proper, then this will be a great place for you. The bartender is the best, ask for the tootsie roll!