here's how i'd sum up everything about this place in one word:
douchebaggery
complete and utter douchebaggery. it was a saturday night and we had just finished gathering at ah-so for a friend's brother's birthday. he decided that we should all continue the party down at warren's. i was down. i didn't even know the phoenix had jazz clubs. i'm a huge fan of them. a little jazz, some decent whiskey or wine, and maybe a cigar and i'm in heaven.
we get there and the place is pretty full. apparently we arrived during the swing from when it becomes mainly dinner to the nightlife atmosphere. the hostess was attempting to do her best in juggling everyone and i felt pretty sorry for her. my friend had spotted a table outside where a bunch of guys had just left and we asked her if we could commandeer it. she was more than happy to let us and away we went. the patio was alright except for the broken heat lamp in our section which was leaning against a tiki torch (oh the irony). we waited for about 20 min (party of 8) before we realized that the waiter who was patrolling the area had decided to ignore us. we went to the bar, got our own beers, and started to get really annoyed.
the waiter finally made his way to us and was a complete jackass. not only did he get miffed at us for going to the bar, when we told him we had been out there for 20 minutes and he had walked by us 5 times, he got pretty bitchy. he took our orders and came back about 20 min later with drinks missing. we werent able to flag him down to tell him about the mistake so we ended up going to the bar again and ordering the missing drinks. just crappy service.
the music wasn't jazz at all either. if i wanted to hear a cover band cover beyonce's put a ring on it, id go to an all ages club. i wanted to hear jazz, not crap.
all in all a really disappointing time at warren's. we left after everyone's first drink was finished. i doubt i'm going to subject myself to that crap again.