I work in the vicinity of Distill and a friend and I thought we would check it out one Sunday evening. We get there around 8pm with a decent crowd. We grab the first seats we find which happen to be corner seats at the bar. After about 10 minutes a waitress comes up to us (Pacific Island looking with tattoo on her forearm). She SPECIFICALLY ASKED me and my friend if either of us had to been to the bar? We both tell her no it's our first time. She let's out a shrill and welcomes us to the bar. We order our first round of drinks and when she arrives with those we order food as well. About 15 - 20 minutes later she brings us the food. (The food was really great and no complaints at all). We had finished our first drinks in the middle of eating and had to stop eating for about 10 minutes for her just to come back. When she finally arrives , in the middle of ordering my second drink she completely stops me mid sentence to yell goodbye to someone leaving............ at this point I was done with her and this bar. Needing a cigarette, I ask her if they sell. She tells me there's a vending machine but takes cash only. Remembering she's failed thus far , I take a chance and go look at the vending machine .......... sure enough takes debit/credit cards.
I wouldn't be so harsh if she hadn't gone out of her way to ask if it was our first time there ............ she knew we were new so you would think make a good impression. Unfortunately that didn't happen. Sad because I love local dive bars but this one missed the mark for me.