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| - This is one of my favorite bars anywhere ever in the universe, so why the three star rating?
It's expensive. On my last trip here, my party paid $100 for the privilege of sitting down on the table'd side, as opposed to standing on the non-table'd side. Sitting is the way to go if you're in a large party and want to sit together, standing is the way to go when you're on a date and need an excuse to get really close to your friend. I digress. We bought a few drinks at the table, and my tab was $40. There were four of us! Two of us ordered beer! What did the girls order? Adamantium?! Jeez!
I just feel that spending that amount of money was too much for a drink and seating. Maybe that's just me.
Other than that, this place is pretty awesome when it's packed. The more packed the place gets, the more fun it gets. You need people here who want to sing along to Billy Joel, The Eagles, Air Supply... or you need people who have had too many beers and don't care about sounding like braying mules. Either way, you need people here. When this place starts to thin out, the synergy drops too quickly.
Also, it gets lame when the guys keep asking you for money. I mean, come on. I get it, I have to pony up if I want to hear Eye of the Tiger, but to interrupt me like 1 minute into my jam because someone gave you $60 for Garth Brooks?! Come on!
On my last excursion out here, the place got dead around midnight, which is entirely too early in Las Vegas. It should be swamped then, no? By 12:30, it was clear they were trying to get everybody into it, but it wasn't working. The mojo was gone.
On previous trips there, the magic has been there all night. One night, a few years ago, the music was perfect, the crowd was hot, everyone had liquid courage, and the ladies (who were also strippers) were really putting on a show to music of Bon Jovi. Epic win.
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