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| - WARNING! This is probably the least funny review that I have written.
Sooooooooo disappointed. It's like when you see this guy or gal and you're like, "hey, I like the way you looks and I think we could be good to each others" and they're like "hey, ditto" and then you're like "let's get a drinks and dinner some times" and they're like, "check the hours on my door, yo!" Then like you get all dudded up and you head to their place and you sit down and take a closer look and you're all "meh." But you're like "no! first dates are awkward sometimes and I really think this thing could be great. I'm going to give it another couple or 7 tries."
I love downtown Mesa and was pretty excited when I first heard talk of The Oak Room! And, although there are glimmers, unfortunately, it is not all that great. It's like, "everything else is closed. :( I guess we could go to The Oak Room. :/ " That's not really a great thing.
One of the glimmers is, according to my animal eating friends, The Oak Room's food is pretty good mostly and really good fairly often. I have had their French fries (which at the time I did not think to ask what they were fried in. I'm still pretty new to this veggie change) minus the gravy and they were darn tasty. Their beer selection is fairly typical, a few of the craft types, and their liquor selection is standard although, I haven't ever really looked above eye-level sitting on a bar stool. A little tarnish on that glimmer is that the prices for alcohol are a little high.
Another glimmer is the service. I have never had service that was even close to bad. The service has always been friendly and efficient.
One of the few things working against The Oak Room is their location. The owners started out with a very bold and new idea for downtown-ish Mesa in not the greatest location. It's not a bad location but for something this bold in DT Mesa it needs to be on Main St. between Center and Country Club or close enough to it that people walking on Main can see it. They seem to be busy during Mesa Amphitheater events but I imagine that alone won't keep the doors open for too long.
Speaking of open doors! Part of the boldness was that they were going to be open until 1 am during the week! Holy poop! I'm in! However, after talking with one of the bartenders, I learned that they really had no plan for how they were going to manage that. I asked if they were planning on doing an industry night or two and nope. I asked about a reverse happy-hour type deal and nope. I asked a few other questions that I can't remember now but were kind of in the area of ways to get people to come in late on week days but all were nope. The gist was that they don't want to attract "those-kind" of people. Those kind who just go there to drink, I guess?
I'm one of "those-kind" of people (I guess it's worked because I'm not all that attracted anymore). But furealz! how did they imagine that they would attract not "those-kind" of people to come to their bar/restaurant until 1 am on a Tuesday in Mesa? This doesn't really add or subtract to The Oak Room itself nonetheless, I imagine it has hit them in their morales when they had to change the hours because there weren't enough of not "those-kind" of people coming through the doors at that late hour. They have since changed their hours to 12am Tue - Sat. This is still pretty darn good for a DT area Mesa restaurant so definitely one of the glimmers here.
Speaking still of open doors! Another glimmer is that they have a patio! It's not a great patio but I'll take it. There are benches and I can smoke with my drink and that is what is really important to me. However, like many other bits of glimmer, they probably need some landscaping and definitely some shade!
All-in-all, The Oak Room is just okay. I hope they are able to iron a few things out and have the tenacity to succeed and become an established part of DT Mesa.
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