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| - First impression as you walk into the place - HO-LEE SH*T!
Not just a typical Phoenix "rainbow" desperate-for-money, income-only, slippery-sleezy hole-in-the-wall kind of place. This place is what I would call "upstanding". I can't believe the transformation of what used to be "the above described" kind of place, to the elegant and sophisticated, bring-your-out-of-towners-in kind of place that it is now. I love it! The owner, Matt, appears to have a vision and I like it a lot! Seriously, got friends coming in? This is a place you can be proud to bring them to. Honestly, I would say this is more of an L.A. or Palm Springs bar planted in the middle of the desert.
Having said all that, here's what you get: actual stemmed wine and martini glasses with all the appropriate elixirs to go in them. Where most rainbow bars offer wine by the color (red, pink or white), Diablos practically gives you wine choices by the year. I drink martinis and I know what I like and how I like them. Most places don't get it when I order a Belvedere martini straight up with three blue cheese stuffed olives. Here it comes: freezer-cold stemmed glass with a napkin under the glass - A NAPKIN UNDER THE GLASS! (From Chicago here. A napkin *always* goes under the glass, but not in Phoenix. Why not?! Pet pieve of mine.) The olives: not just blue cheese smashed into the olive by monkey hands, but the best BC olives I've ever had, purchased from Queen Creek Olive Mill (about an hour outside of Phoenix). The kind that melt in your mouth. Yea!
Ok so its not about the olives, the cold stemmed glass, the broad selection of wine, booze and beer - its really about attention to detail. Detail! That's what I really appreciate. Like this is the way a customer is supposed to be treated and that's what comes across. Sure the prices are a little higher - you're paying to be treated well. What would you expect?
Did I mention that the servers - yes there are servers! - actually walking around to take your order? You won't see this at Charlies or Stacy's or any other rainbow establishment in this town. Love that too.
From the for-sale art on the wall, to the orange-scented restrooms, to the verde green paint on the patio walls to match the outlying landscape, this place just rocks. Honestly, I'm so glad and so grateful that finally somebody has stepped up to the plate to offer a different perspective on the already weather-beaten and shadowy gay community that somehow manages to live in the furnace that is Phoenix. This is truly a step in the right direction. I only hope that other like establishments pop up to compete with Diablos, if for no other reason than to be better than Diablos. That way we all win. At the moment however, there is nothing else that even comes close to Los Diablos. The place stands like an oasis. Thank you Matt, for doing this. Love the intention.
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