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| - I have a soft spot for this joint because, believe it or not, I met my wife here for the first time. Yep. No bullsh-t.
"MY CIRCLE BAR STORY"
I was buying drinks for our party of 16 and she and a friend showed up out of the blue and coincidentally, she worked for the same company I worked at, except in a different geography. Buzzed out of my mind while turboboosted by liquid courage & Red Bull, I kicked it into gear:
- I started in with some of my funniest stuff. Meh. She wasn't having any of it.
- I offered her a drink from my cocktail tray of mirth. Zippo - not interested.
- I tried doing the "tell-me-about-you-cause-I'm-an-interested-and-caring-listener" thing. Nope - no play.
- I tried the "outrageous-lie-to-catch-her-attention" thing. Crashed & burned.
(Dammit. The playbook was getting thin and I was doing so poorly, I still didn't even formally have her frickin' name. )
Finally, I used my trump card: Based on her name (which I eventually caught when her friend who was having a grand ol' time, called her name outloud) and the division she worked for, I figured out who she was based on emails I'd seen from her. So, I started criticizing her division of the company, rambling on, calling them a "waste of money" that added little value. Now THIS got her attention, but before she had the chance to say something back, I said, "Yeah, but there's one person that seems to do a pretty good job and that's this girl [her full name]. She published content for us that's actually useful to our team and otherwise does an awesome job."
...Astonished, she exclaimed, "Th... th... that's ME!" Yep. No joke. This sandlot play actually worked. We dated for 2 years long distance until she moved in with me, and we've been married ever since.
So now why would you want to check out the Circle Bar at the Hard Rock?
1) "NOW WE'RE IN... THE BIG LEAGUES"
Depending on what time you go, you can either have a really beautiful crowd, or a sausagefest that's usually the remnants of a much better timeblock an hour ago. If it's the latter, walk yourself over toe Mr. Lucky's and order the off-menu $7.77 special instead. You'll spend less money and have more fun. Otherwise bring your A-game and your best hook otherwise you'll be like a mosquito repeatedly bouncing off a screen door, unable to get in.
2) BARTENDERS
The bartenders are quite easy to get an order to. Unlike other places, I've found that it's not difficult to get their attention, and they won't flip out if you order a Mojito for your girl. I guess they're just used to moving really fast to sate people's thirst.
NOTE: "KEEP AWAY FROM THE BLACKJACK ALCOVES"
There are alcoves that line the outside of the Circle Bar that face inward. These serve up some of the worst kinds of Blackjack known to man. $25 min 6-5 Single Deck. You have to be doing pretty poorly at the bar to wander over to the Blackjack tables on the rim to try your luck.
CONCLUSION:
The bar's nothing spectacular however the gravitational pull it has on Hard Rock ladies after hours gives it a little something extra. 3 1/2-stars plus 1/2-star for being the place I met my wife.
4-stars.
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INSIDER'S HINT: THE PARABOLIC BAR CEILING
If you feel like there's someone talking right next to you but no one's there, don't freak out. It's not "the Ghost of the Circle Bar". The fact is that the ceiling of the Circle Bar is like an experiment at the Science Discovery museum: It's shaped just such that if you're sitting on one side of the bar, it's often (not always) possible to sometimes clearly hear conversations going on directly on the opposite side of the bar. The result is eerie: It's as if the voice is right next to you, behind you, or even in front of you - but no one's there. There's of course the added value of being able to eavesdrop on those directly across from you...
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