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| - This place is built upon the bones of an old dive bar, the Sail Inn, that started up in the mid-1990s and lasted for about 20 years. The current owners of this establishment have built a great place upon the existing structure and according to one of the owners (who also owns or is part-owner of the Over Easy chain of breakfast places) live music will definitely be coming back to this location.
The establishment now looks like something you might expect to see up in the wilds of Flagstaff with its wood overlay and bars build to look like they are compiled from sawed off wood logs, and numerous stuffed animals in the main indoor room.
As for the food and drink, the description I received was fairly spot on, upscale bar food and it has a nice selection of craft brews on tap and in the bottle and in the can, along with the mass produced lagers from the beer equivalent of the land of Mordor, InBev - in other words, something for everyone. I get the feeling that the early hours of this place may be an older crowd and as the night wears on there will be shift change to a younger college crowd, especially when ASu is in session. In addition, once the weather cools down it will have some great outside seating.
Oh, for food, I tried the coney island hot dog and onion rings the night it was opened (though I was about two sheets to the wind that first time having attended a cocktail social gathering over at the Culinary Dropout Showcase room across the way. In addition, I went back last night and tried the fried chicken in mushroom gravy (excellent gravy, heavy on the black pepper) and my work associate and I shared an order of the nachos (decent). The beer I had came in a chilled beer glass - sometimes disliked by hard core craft beer enthusiasts but I like a chilled beer glass when it is over a 100 outside.
The only letdown was desert and they warned us they were working on it - we both had an order of the chocolate chip cookie and ice cream - great ice cream but the cookie was bold and cut up and placed standing in a cross section in the ice cream - might I suggest you steal the version of this from Oregano's and do hot, half baked cookie dough with ice cream on top as a better version of this dish? Boulder's on Broadway also does a similar dish but a cold cookie just doesn't work for me - at least warm it up!
Other than that, great location and I think this place is off to a great start - can't wait till they bring the music back though I have a feeling it will only be outside as the indoor stage that was once in the Sail Inn (may the concept rest in peace) is no longer there.
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