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| - Okay people. This is one of the swankiest places in C-Town.
As you walk in what appears to be a sketchy dive bar from the outside, you are pleasantly proved wrong. Instead, you are greeted with a bar that oozes a 1920s prohibition era energy. As you take your seat at an intimate booth or high top, you notice the live piano music towards the back of the bar. Next, you are greeted by the hipster-ist of the hipster bartenders- excuse me, I mean "mixologists" and "cocktail craftsmen". You may roll your eyes at this detail (like I do, as I type it), but these people definitely deserve those titles.
Every time I come to this bar, I irrefutably and consistently feel two things: 1. I almost always want to be friends with the person serving me drinks and 2. I am incredibly overwhelmed by the book of cocktails that is AT LEAST as big as a Hunger Games book. Fortunately, these are two emotions that I am not too upset about, haha. You would think that with THAT many craft cocktails, the mixologists must be just as lost as us. But no! I swear they could give you accurate, detailed descriptions of every single drink in that book.
Luckily, the drinks are organized by type of alcohol; therefore, you whiskey-lovers can get your fix while you enjoyers of vodka can find the perfect concoction as well! But beware...these aren't your bottom shelf, weak ass drinks. We are talking one might have your mom on the floor!
I honestly can't say enough good things about VTR, it's a must-do and a perfect date spot. If you are suddenly feeling a little too relaxed after your first drink, definitely order up the cheese plate or banana's foster dessert. They are game-changers. Like, "it might be love" game-changer.
Keep in mind, for a place as chic, cool, and overall "swanky" as this, you'll have to pay a pretty penny. My opinion= so. worth. it.
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