I can't believe this place is so close to my house and I have been driving by it for months and not realizing what it was. The location used to be a Dirty Drummer Sports bar. Then it was another generic sports bar and I believe it was called Outlaws or something similar. So when I saw it changed to Bootleggers I naturally assumed it was another bad sports bar. Then I read in the New Times Best of Phoenix that they won something. I believe it was for Brisket Sandwich or something. I could not believe it. So I stopped in tonight. Unfortunately I had already eaten so I just had a few drinks looked at the menu, listened to the other dinners and watched. And watched alot.
I really am looking forward to going back and trying the food. Everything looked really good. Everyone was talking about the Brisket Nachos so that will be something I look forward to. They had a nice beer selection and a nice little unique thing where they are serving Boutique Moonshine. So that is a thing now. I remember drinking rock gut homemade whiskey when I visited my brothers in the hills of Arkansas. Now they are charging $10 for that. I need to tell the hillbillies to pack up and move to Arizona. But it was good and something different.
Here is my only complaint about the place and normally this is not a big deal to me. But they don't have Wifi. Actually they do but they don't give out the password. Which is certainly their prerogative but the staff was kind of nasty about it. LIke "We have Wifi" But you can't have it. It sort of left me a bit put off. It's 2013 who doesn't have Wifi anymore? If management decides that they only want to use it for management business purposes then I would recommend changing the name of the router to something else. When I see a router for the business I am in there is a built in expectation that it is available for customer use. Don't want to offer Wifi as an amenity? No problem, then have your Wifi signal be anonymous.
Looking forward to eating some food there. But will remember to carry my own Mifi if I feel the need.