Foreign National (bar)

The bar and restaurant Foreign National was adjacent to the Vietnamese fusion restaurant Stateside; the two businesses haven been referred to as "sibling" establishments.^[3][4] The 28-seat^[5] bar had a large mosaic disco ball and also served Vietnamese cuisine.^[6] The menu included cheeseburger bao, chicken curry puffs, and fried potatoes.^[7] Among drinks was the Singapore Sling, the Expat Punch with passion fruit juice and Taittinger, and the Long Thailand Iced Tea, which had brandy, rum, rye, and Thai tea.^[8]

Eric Johnson was the chef and owner.^[9] The bar opened in 2016^{[10][11][12][13]} and closed on July 31, 2025.^[14][15]

The interior was designed by Callie Meyer.^[16]

In Condé Nast Traveler's 2018 list of Seattle's fifteen best bars, Jessica Voelker wrote, "You know you've been to a great cocktail bar when you walk out feeling pleasantly disoriented, like you've just been transported to some faraway land. A little bit tiki, a little bit disco, Foreign National is such a bar."^[17]