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Halfway through our night at AZ88 that's what my husband turned to me and said and I couldn't help but agree. We went on a Thursday night and it was rather empty, there were several open tables during the entire time we were there. We went for drinks and we were not disappointed. I finally found a place here that can make a good mojito! Woohoo! I watched the bartender make it himself, sans pre-mix, and he muddled the mint in front of my very eyes. I saw the Champagne Celebration on the menu but worried it would be too sweet so I opted to have a Kir Royale. The bartender suggested the Celebration and assured me it wouldn't be too sweet so I ordered it. It was fantastic! It was one of the prettiest drinks I've ever had, with colored rock sugar sprinkled on top (which gives it a ever so faint cotton candy aftertaste) and it is basically a mix of a Kir Royale and a Bellini. My husband asked for suggestion and was told the Side Car, which he found too sweet and came with a sugar rimmed glass. He then moved to a tried and true Bombay Sapphire martini that was well made and his glass was poured so full that we could clearly see the meniscus on the top. (And I'm sure we were the only people in the place that knew what a meniscus was...) The bartender was a little slow in making one of my drinks so he comped it for us which I appreciated. I wasn't bothered by it because he was the only bartender and clearly could have used help as he had to prepare all the drinks for the bar and the tables.
We didn't order dinner food but I plan on returning with my BFF in two weeks for dinner. The food is insanely inexpensive, its cheaper than at Chili's! The atmosphere is great, it's very trendy and upbeat yet still understated. (It reminds me of 28 Degrees in Boston except with a white motif and not blue) We did order dessert, the Golden Gate Cake in honor of my little sister who just moved to San Fran this week. (Love you A!) and it was amazingly yummy.
The place is fairly casual really, most folks were wearing their best mall duds from Express so it wasn't overly dressy at all. In fact, there was a guy in a Budweiser trucker hat that he clearly got for free somewhere. (I will not get into my feelings on trucker hats, Budweiser trucker hats or free hats....) My husband was in shorts and a t-shirt and he felt fine. (Plenty of guys came in wearing flip flops...yet another thing I won't get into!) The crowd was fairly diverse which was nice.
One last thought. Yes, the bathrooms were cool but it was certainly not the coolest I've ever seen. (I find that frosting glass or water effects really take bathrooms to a new level.) One of the stalls in the women's bathroom was lacking tp and the other was dangerously close to that. There were also kind of messy and smelled faintly of sewage.
I am definitely planning on returning, its nice and out of the way, relaxed and inexpensive. What more could you want?
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