| rev:text
| - When I came to Scottsdale for a weekend visit a friend of mine suggested we come here on a Saturday night. We were always big fans of Mickey's Hangover and heard that this place was kind of the same vibe but "a little more Scottsdale." I was kind of skeptical when I heard this description and figured the place was gonna be VERY Scottsdale with very little Mickey's. Well, I was surprised that the original description was pretty much spot on.
Firehouse has a pretty similar setup to Mickey's (which is good) with a few noticeable differences: 1) The second bar near the back. What is there to say really? Two bars are better than one. 2) The tables/chairs/couches/booths are all pretty nice (and there's lots of 'em) but not too pretentious (aka not "too Scottsdale"). Don't get me wrong...the rundown furniture at Mickey's was part of it's charm, but if you were ever there during the day (when the place was well lit) that furniture looked REALLY worn. 3) There's a DJ/ DJ booth. I'm not necessarily saying this is a good thing or a bad thing, it's just a difference I noticed (although at times Mickey's did have a DJ setup in a corner). When I was there it was near the end of an ASU football game so the DJ wasn't playing music yet and therefore I can't really say much about the music selection. Speaking of the game, this place has a ton of flat screen TVs throughout the bar, so I'd think this is a good place to catch a game!
The food menu and drink specials all seemed pretty similar to Mickey's (once again, this is a good thing). Basically (for those not familiar with Mickey's), that means there's a pretty extensive food menu and a lot of different drink specials at different times of the day. Me and my friends really weren't all that hungry, but just to get a taste for what the food was like we got the pretzel sticks, which were yummy!
The one thing I didn't like about this place (and when bars/night clubs do this in general it annoys me) is that all of a sudden it went from "bar" to "night club." People (including our group of three) were asked to get up from our tables to make room for what I'm assuming was a dance floor (we left shorty after this so I can't confirm this is the reason why). I just don't see this place as a "club" where a ton of people are gonna dance so moving pretty much all the tables in the center of the main room seemed unnecessary.
Overall, I really liked Firehouse though, and will definitely be back!
|
![[RDF Data]](/fct/images/sw-rdf-blue.png)
![[cxml]](/fct/images/cxml_doc.png)
![[csv]](/fct/images/csv_doc.png)
![[text]](/fct/images/ntriples_doc.png)
![[turtle]](/fct/images/n3turtle_doc.png)
![[ld+json]](/fct/images/jsonld_doc.png)
![[rdf+json]](/fct/images/json_doc.png)
![[rdf+xml]](/fct/images/xml_doc.png)
![[atom+xml]](/fct/images/atom_doc.png)
![[html]](/fct/images/html_doc.png)