Now that I've had an opportunity to sit upstairs at Genna's and downstairs at Genna's I can safely say I'm a fan.
Ah who am I kidding, I was a fan the moment I walked in on a blustery day in December when everything else was closed because of the snowpocalypse but they opened up to serve me alcohol.
Well, not just me. There were a couple of other people there.
Genna's would totally be my "Cheers" if it weren't for the following things:
1. There's no great seat at the bar, you're always in someones way.
2. It's a who's who of Epic employees and it fills up fast on the weekend when they reunite on the capitol after not seeing one another for a day.
3. There's no live studio audience.
There are a ton of things though I dig, including Ale Asylum's Nutbrown on tap (please never do away with this), the cool nooks and crannies upstairs for sitting, the local music scene, the SUPER attentive staff and the random ass wreath situation that was going on in December. Whacked out greenery decked the walls by a local artist and I have to say there was more than one occasion where $45 seemed like a fair price for a one of a kind wreath on crack. I distinctly remember one night looking at 3 different ones wondering which was better, but I was never drunk enough to go through with it and always wondered what it would be like to walk my purchase down East Wash back home.
Ahhhhh, why am I so practical!