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| - Following a particularly grueling day at work on Tuesday (Aug 12/14), that evening my long time friend and I walked along tropically hot 17th Ave in search of a place to unwind and partake of some orally administered stress anaesthetic. We had no particular place in mind and we were enticed into 1410 Bier Haus because of the delightful indoor/outdoor vibe that their fully retractable windows have on the ground level patio, and everyone looked like they were having a great time.
We walked in the front door and noticed that there was a young female wearing black that seemed to work there (as she was holding menus) standing in front of us. The vacant stare in her eyes at a distant spot somewhere about two feet above the door was reminiscent of when a deer dashes out on to the road at night, and through the glare of your headlights is wondering "Is that a Tacoma or a Tundra? From so far, the headlight positioning seem so similar. I will wait until it gets much closer to figure it out...." Not wanting to scare the potentially stunned or inebriated creature, we approached slowly in order to establish that she worked there. After a very awkward silence standing in front of her, my friend cleared her throat and asked "So can we just go ahead and sit anywhere?". After a frightened moment of fleeting eye contact, and looking around in panic from side to side, she stared directly at us in silence. After the question was repeated, a flurry of flailing arm movements, she said "Uhhhh. Yaahhhhh. You can sit anywhere, I guess".
We walked in through the bar, leaving the bewildered girl and her menus behind us. I like to think that if I was bulemic and could read her mind, that she was thinking about how she wasn't like every other kid, you know, who dreams of being an astronaut, and that she was thinking about how she was more interested in, uh, what bark on a tree was made out of, just like Hansel. We finally found our own way to a table that was very near the open window set up, giving us a lovely breeze from outside, as well as enjoying a bit of the air conditioning from inside. We were greeted in a fairly reasonable amount of time by the server who dropped off menus and then disappeared. When she did come back, we ordered shots and a couple of beers. After about 10 minutes, she returned to inform us that they were out of stock of the beer we ordered, so we selected another. We then experienced a quick delivery of our selected options. Our server, while slow in service at first, made some stellar menu recommendations and ensured that our glasses remained full for the remainder of our stay. The pizza we ended up ordering was amazingly good, with a rustic presentation that had a thin, crisp, crust and fresh, tasty toppings. We noticed around us that the food that the really, really, riduculously good looking people around us ordered also looked extraordinarily delicious as well. The biggest surprise was that even though we had not said one word about the initial service to our server (or each other until after we left) that our bill had been reduced by 10% and when she presented it to us she apologized for the slow start to our service and had given us a discount. We would both definitely go back again, but I would never do it after a long day at work looking and feeling ragged. I would return as a destination for a planned night out as everyone was dressed quite sharply and looking their best. The four star rating was because of the great food and the impressive service recovery.
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