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| - Look. You know what your'e going to get here. You're not at Barley House because you're feeling classy, or want a quiet night. You're here because you want to drink, you want to dance, and those options are really pretty limited in Cleveland.
PROS:
-No cover
-Good DJs (usually. DJ Donkis - you're my fav!)
-Reasonably priced drinks
-Dancing
-A slight stage to dance on
-People watching
-When it's warm, outside areas
CONS:
-Way too much space devoted to table service, typically filled with obnoxious groups of men who will ask anyone to join them. No thanks, I'm good.
-Some strange characters, including a man who literally picked my roommate and I up before the bouncer told him to stop (thank you bouncer!)
-Not many places to sit if you aren't getting bottle service - dancing in heels is exhausting, folks!
-Long bathroom lines, and a bathroom attendant. She's really nice and knows some of the regulars, but I always feel uncomfortable - I can turn the water on myself! The bathrooms are also realllllly small so it gets very crowded.
Overall....well, you know what you're getting in to.
I have also been to Barley House once during the day, to watch football. The bartender wasn't very attentive, even though there were only 5 or so people sitting at the bar. I ordered some waffle fries (yum), but was a little disappointed with the lack of options on the menu (plussss was just craving some mozzarella sticks). The popcorn machine was a nice touch for free bar nibbling, but it must have been run hours earlier and was nearly empty when I scraped the last pieces from it. No one bothered to refill it in the three hours I was there.
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