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| - Crabby Don's is technically a sports bar, but I like to go there because it is one of the few local spots for East Valley denizens to catch live, original music on the weekends. And when I say east, I'm talking east of the loop 101. I appreciate the fact that they have live bands, and it's only a few miles from the house, making it an affordable cab ride home, or worst case scenario, a long walk.
The kitchen is open until 11pm on the weekends which is nice, I ordered the fish and chips with onion rings as a side, which was pretty tasty and would easily feed two people. They also have a crazy long happy hour, but I forget what the exact hours are. I dig their slogan as well, "The Liver is Evil and must be Punished!"
Tonight the service was great, Sean/Shawn deserves special praise as a bartender. In addition to being a great bartender, he gave me the low-down on the best bacon-aversion routes to avoid the Gilbert Gestapo and make it home safely from the bar. Turns out the pretext that 70% of the local DUI victims get pulled over for is swinging too wide while making a left hand turn onto Baseline, that is, not sticking to the innermost left hand lane. So if you're leaving the bar, try to plan your exit so that you only make a right hand turn, and STAY IN YOUR LANE.
SO....now that I've gotten that of my chest, let's continue with the review, shall we?
The crowd is pretty much East Valley'ish if you know what I mean, most people were outside on one of the two patios enjoying the summer night. Kinda dead tonight inside the main room, there is a another back room with a shuffle board and full bar separated by glass doors. Granted it's quite a bit smaller than the main room indoors, although it always seems to be a bit more crowded for its size than the rest of the bar.
Door cover was $5 and the two bands that I saw tonight were pretty decent. The second one had good sound, was technically proficient, moved around, and the first thing I thought to myself was "these guys must be heavily influenced by Incubus". This was confirmed later that night when they played a cover of Drive.
The restrooms here are nice, better than the most I've been in lately, although they were out of paper towels. Tons of parking available. Decor in the bar is contemporary, although I'm not super big on the blood red walls that make the band/stage corner. The ceiling is all exposed and painted black.
You can usually catch what's going via the bar's myspace page. Open mic Thursday night, DJ's usually play Friday night, bands on Saturday night.
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