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Being the cheap (and I don't mean price) lake bar in the area you have to have lower standards, but this place just keeps getting worse. This is a review of the last and final time I will be going to the rudder.
My friends wanted to meet here, and wanted to sit at a table, much to my dismay (our waitress is obviously not employed not for her skill, but blonde hair and big boobs, I'll get to that soon). Upon sitting down our table top broke straight off the bottom, flinging drinks everywhere. None of the staff helped, we had to chase down bouncers and the waitress to get a new table (which we ended up having to get ourselves). They did replace the drinks for free, but it wouldn't have surprised me if we were charged for them anyways (to make things less complicated for our valiant server, we had put everything on one tab).
The bouncers had known about "this table" but never did anything about it, knowing it was on the verge of breaking, and apparently broke often.
So after this, the waitress brought over one friend's replacement drink and left. For 20 minutes. Upon returning she takes our drink order and leaves for minimally another 20 minutes. This is at like 9pm- the place is still empty. I finally get my dirty martini, which is solid olive juice. Because our waitress totally vanished again, we went up to the bar to get it fixed. The bartender mumbled something about the liquor meters, poured in ONE more shot to dilute the two terrible martinis, which slightly diluted the brine. Of course I make the mistake of asking the waitress for another later on, but asked if they could put in less olive juice. She was really confused, and had no clue that a martini is not a 1.5oz cocktail, neither did the bartender. She told me if I wanted it made properly I would have to buy another shot. A terrible $14 absolut martini? So I went to the bar and got the same story from the bartender. Sorry you have metered pourers now, but dont make it my problem. After paying extra to make my 2nd drink drinkable at the bar, we left and will not return.
SLOW service, the bartender can't make a martini to save his life, our table fell apart and they didn't care, our ditsy waitress stopped by our table four times in two hours, then giggled about how terrible the drinks were without offering to fix it, her only advice was to go up to the bar to buy more shots to fix it myself (this must usually work on men........I'm sure shes a nice girl, but cornelius is plagued with "cute" girls that likely can't spell their own name, let alone do their job). And I want to add, I love hot girls and boobs, just not when there isn't a brain buried somewhere inside.
Thanks for reminding me how crappy this bar has become, we used to spend a ton of money here.
Original Review:
I LOVE this bar in the off season.
The staff is attentive, older than highschool age, and actually cares you exist. In the summer.............good luck. Its annoying unless you're already drunk or don't care if anything happens in a timely manner.
Pretty much always $2 Buds & PBR, $3 Coronas and $5 gatorade shots. Random days might have another item, but these are always "the special". The deck area has a great view of the lake, although the lower levels are all waitress seating, lame. It will take you 30 minutes to get a beer from a waitress.
The bartenders at the outside bar HATE you exist. They MIGHT put their cell phone down a couple minutes after you walk up (whether its busy or not). The "live music" is generally really bad. Like, really bad. Its 1/3 musician bad-comedy hour, 1/3 drunk band members begging the audience for shots, and 1/3 extremely loud drunk "singing".
Bottom line- its a totally different bar in the summer. As a cheap lake bar, it will attract the young jersey shore style boaters to plop off their boat to drink some more. Lucky for Lake Norman there's plenty of bars, so if you want something more civilized, hit somewhere else. Aside from the terrible wait staff, its exactly what you'd expect from an after boating.
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