LOUD!!! Hickory Tavern was a favorite. Great chicken wings for my husband, a wonderful Tavern salad for me, enough Tex Mex and variety for our friends. So...the big downside is
they have incorporated a vocalist into the bar area. My group has been coming to Hickory Tavern once to twice a month since they opened. We like to sit in the bar. We enjoy the outside area as well. Tonight the outside was full and the inside had few people in it...because they have added a vocalist with an amplifier. It was 5:30, but we couldn't talk about our week or make plans for the week-end because we couldn't hear. I asked the waitress if she could have the amp turned down. Didn't happen. The manager couldn't hear me when we were talking. His suggestion was that we sit elsewhere. My suggestion is that you lose the vocalist or turn down the amp. Be back? Not until we know we can talk. My ears are still ringing. It was that loud.