The Southern-themed cocktail room on Broadway, all church pews and bourbon, where a Saturday-night sermon became a Capitol Hill ritual before it closed in 2023.
Published May 10, 2026 · By Priya Nair Last reviewed May 26, 2026 · How we pick bars Permanently closed (verified May 2026). Witness served its final Capitol Hill night in May 2023. Location 410 Broadway E, Seattle, WA 98102 Capitol Hill, Seattle Price $$ Bourbon-led drinks, church-pew room, Saturday sermon Hours Status Permanently closed Closed May 2023 Was Southern cocktail bar Was open Evenings Drinks Specialty Southern-style bourbon cocktails Cocktails Capitol Hill Southern Closed 4.3 ★★★★★ aggregate across Google and Tripadvisor reviews (388) Visit Witness Suggest an edit Ask the editors Listings are editorial. Tell us if hours or details have changed and our editors will verify and update.
Witness was a Southern-influenced cocktail bar at 410 Broadway East on Capitol Hill, opened by Gregg Holcomb of Knee High Stocking Company. The Seattle Times reviewed it for cocktails in an old Southern style, and Seattle Met praised its soul.
The room sold the theme hard. Pewlike benches, white clapboard walls, fake church windows and century-old pews from a North Carolina church built a backwoods-chapel feel that set it apart on Broadway.
The cocktails matched. The house Witness drink put hickory-smoked cherry in a bourbon-and-Benedictine build, the Son of the Preacher Man ran bourbon, black pekoe tea, lemon and honey, and the El Diablo brought a tequila and cassis tang.
The ritual was the sermon. On Saturday nights at ten, the bartender stopped the music to drop some knowledge, a bit that turned a cocktail bar into a Capitol Hill set piece for the better part of a decade.
Witness closed in May 2023, per Capitol Hill Seattle News. For places still pouring, see our Seattle cocktail bars guide, the global cocktail bars index, and the cocktail bars near me finder.
Witness is permanently closed, so there is no current visit to plan. This profile stands as a record of the Broadway room and its Saturday sermon.