A terraced hillside on the north side of McMenamins Elks Temple is now a beer garden called the Goat Lot, giving downtown Tacoma a new outdoor spot with views of Commencement Bay and the Port of Tacoma.

The patio at 565 Broadway opened Tuesday, Aug. 11, after more than a year of construction. It serves the full McMenamins Pub menu with table service. No host-stand check-in required.

The space has two tiers: an upper level with picnic tables for larger groups and a main level with 13 tables and a fire pit. Vintage metal bed frames repurposed as furniture came from McMenamins' Olympic Club Hotel in Centralia, according to Elks Temple manager Ian Slick, who told the Tacoma News Tribune that McMenamins began the project in summer 2025.

The name honors a piece of the building's renovation history. When McMenamins was restoring the 1915–16 landmark, goats spent 11 days clearing the hillside of blackberries and invasive plants, according to the company's Goat Lot page.

The Goat Lot joins the Elks Temple's existing outdoor Spanish Steps seating area and adds to a building that already houses Doc's Bar, a tiki bar, a speakeasy called The Vault, the Spanish Ballroom concert venue and a bottle shop. McMenamins opened the seven-story, 45-room hotel in 2019 after restoring the National Register-listed building, which was designed by École des Beaux-Arts graduate É. Frère Champney.

The patio entrance is at the north corner of the building on Broadway, marked by a wooden ramp with McMenamins' signature whimsical characters perched atop barrel-stave posts.

Hours are Monday through Thursday, 3–10 p.m.; Friday, 3–11 p.m.; Saturday, noon–11 p.m.; and Sunday, noon–10 p.m.