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| - I sometimes feel as if I am wildly misunderstood by restaurant staff. Yes, I appreciate specials on booze. I learn them, I study them, I remember them. Give me a day of the week and it's likely I will be able to list of 3 or more booze specials going on in any given area at any given time. This is not because I'm cheap. This is because I'm a lush. My bar tab is going to be high, no matter how much the drinks cost, so just get me as drunk as possible and you will be rewarded handsomely.
That said, I was super stoked to find out that after ditching our former trivia location, we were going to give Arcadia Tavern a try for their Tuesday Night Trivia. Partially because trivia is super fun. And partially because, upon doing my due diligence, I learned that not only are Tuesday nights $20 Wine and Pizza Night, but they also offer 1/2 Price Any Bottle of Wine Mon-Thurs from 9 PM- Close! Guess what day is in between Monday and Thursday? TUESDAY! It's like I hit the booze special lottery!
Upon sitting down we immediately got our wine and pizza on. This special is not nearly as awesome as Postino's $20 Bruschetta and a Bottle deal, also on Tuesday nights. For one, only 2 bottles of wine are offered, whereas Postino gives you a choice of ANY FREAKING BOTTLE OFF THEIR MENU. Secondly, it's limited to one per table. So if there's 4 of you and you're all a little hungry and a lot thirsty and would like to split 2 pizzas and a couple bottles of wine, you only get to use the special once. Kinda lame, but I guess I understand (though Postino does not limit you whatsoever, and that is why I love them).
So we start trivia, eat our pizza, drink our wine, have a couple beers and 9:00 rolls around . We grab our waitress and ask if we can begin partaking in the excellent half-price bottle special they have going on Mon-Thurs from 9:00 PM to close. We were told that no, we could not. We apparently already used our special for the day when we ordered the Pizza and Wine special. This perplexed us. When you go to a restaurant for happy hour. And then, say, happy hour turns into happy 4 hours and you happen to still be at the restaurant by time their nightly specials kick in, do you not get to partake in both? And do you not call it a Happy Booze Sandwich? Ok maybe you don't, considering I just made that term up, but I doubt anyone has ever been denied cheap booze on account of previously imbibing cheap booze at the same establishment.
We also wondered if we shot ourselves in the foot ordering the pizza and wine deal at 7:00 PM when we could have waited until 9 and had half price bottles ALL NIGHT LONG. We asked the waitress and apparently we did not, because in Arcadia Tavern world "Half Price Bottles of Wine from 9PM to Close" really means "One Half Price Bottle of Wine per Table from 9PM to Close". WTF? How they expect to compete with any other special at that time with this lame ass promotion is beyond me. We have Vig down the street with $5 martinis, Postino with $20 Bruschetta and a Board. Hell, even Zipps will give you $3 premium pints from 8PM to close and this is AFTER lubing you up with $3 Zipparitas from 3-7.
Basically, I was fully planning on putting Arcadia Tavern in constant rotation on my weekly booze session calendar, but they clearly can't handle it. I've been here a couple time and the food and service has always been okay, so I guess I'll give them 3 stars. But I'm still going to the Vig on Tuesdays.
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