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| - Look, I'm going to level with you here about issues people have brought up.
Is it a tad on the loud side? Sure. The floors are polished concrete and the walls are glass and the roof is made from endangered snow leopard skulls (one of those things may be fake). But it's not OVERWHELMINGLY loud. It's just loud, with music and such, which is nice because there's nothing worse than going for happy hour somewhere and being able to hear yourself think. If I wanted to listen to myself think, I wouldn't be out suffocating my brain with alcohol.
Is the food amazing? Hell, I don't know. What do you even like? Do you like simple stuff? They do pretty solid bruschetta, We had like 3 different types and they were only $3 a piece on happy hour and of good size (real talk, Meridiem: I love basil, but it doesn't really belong on the one with prosciutto. Let the meat and cheese shine on that one. Keep it on the caprese one though).
There were some middle-aged dudes with rhinestone studded jeans there trying to impress the younger female bartender by ordering the most expensive thing on the menu, which was a steak and potatoes which I initially scoffed at like a wiener...but it actually looked really well cooked, I was impressed. The guys took like 2 bites and then asked for a box because they had no intention of eating it, they just wanted an excuse to pull out their AMEX and hope someone was impressed (they weren't..it was a gold AMEX, come on dude. No one gets excited for anything less than a black card, sheesh).
And that leads me to the next question: Is the clientele just a repeat of the upper-middle class faux-posh pseudo-cast of the Real Housewives of Chandler that tends to haunt everything in the Ocotillo area? Sure, a little bit (so far). There was a small smattering of the chalky-skinned burlap sacks of overly tanned makeup that take residence at The Living Room down the road, and the guys that look like they're hunting for those women. But there's also a happy hour crowd, and random people that wandered over from the hotels, and the DJ helps bring the mood down about 10 years, so it's really not bad at all. It's actually a solid spot for people watching and there are a lot of normal jeans and t-shirts type people there, and polo wearing folks that just got off of work down the road. You're not out of place there no matter what.
But overall, the big questions is: is it a good place to go? And so far the answer is a resounding YES. The prices are great considering how nice this place is inside. $5 glasses of wine (a lot of them, even some local!) during happy hour. Food at various price points, and they're not stingy (hopefully that doesn't change). Decent music, great ambiance, some good drinks for cheap ($5 old fashioned poured so you actually taste whiskey before the ice melts).
Check it out while you still can, because there isn't much else near there and this place is going to stay constantly filled up for a while.
BRB, gotta go order the steak with my Silver Wells Fargo card and see if anyone is impressed.
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