This months dinner meeting is at the iconic Triple XXX Rootbeer Drive-in in Issaquah. The first drive-in restaurant in the Pacific Northwest was established in 1930 in Renton by. The combination of Triple XXX Root Beer and food turned out to be a great idea which spread nationwide. Of all the XXXs that ever graced our country's landscape, Issaquah's is the only one left which sports the traditional barrel.