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| - Granted, I've only been to Juliet's Castle once... but I really like what I saw. The staff, while small, were very pleasent, the food was well priced and worth every penny, the drink specials were pretty awesome, plenty of pool tables, which is a major plus for me... and to top it all off, there was just something about the look and atmosphere of this place I really liked.
It's hard to explain, but when I walk into a place that sells itself as a 'sports bar' I kind of have a few preconcieved ideas of what I'm going to see. I expect lots of TVs turned to various sporting events - which, granted, this place had... but I also kind of expect bland, drab walls covered in various beer companies promotional materials... I saw nothing of the kind. I expect VLTs, which it had... but tucked into a quiet little subroom, where they didn't feel like a focal point, as they sadly often are. I expected tons of posters for local sporting events and the like but instead the few sports posters (all for the upcoming UFC event, which is understandable as these are big revenue events for these kind of places) were tastefully placed, and unobtrusive.
For some weird reason though, the selling point to me was the look. I don't know if it was the black pseudo-brick style walls, the red lighting fixtures, the matching red surface on the pool tables, the swanky knee-high tables in the couch-style seating area beside the stage, or some mash-up of them all, but this seemed like a cross between all the things I would ever go to a sports bar for, but with more of a classy, lounge-like feel. Very cool.
And as for what the previous reviewer had to say, the night I went the place was almost PACKED... not to the point of suffacation... but every table in the main bar area had people at it, and I don't think any of them had more than one seat open. The pool table area still had a couple open, but most were in use, and the small bar staff were definitely being kept busy. And frankly, if 16th Ave is "the middle of nowhere" for you, then I really have no counterpoint, cause clearly you dwell exclusively within the walls built around downtown by the surrounding skyscrapers.
All in all, I definitely wouldn't say it's the greatest bar I've ever been to... but I'm hard pressed to find much I expressly DIDN'T like. They could have a slightly bigger staff, but that's a minor complaint at best.
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