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| - My husband and I are Bourbon enthusiasts, and when I saw that Mecklenburg county has a whisky distillery, who was celebrating their second anniversary last night with a throw back to Prohibition-style Speakeasy's, I thought, "I'm in!" We arrived just before 7pm and the place was already hopping. I enjoyed role-playing and having to knock on a side-door to gain entrance to the candlelit walk to the tour. We never actually saw or got a tour, which was a bummer. We did sort of get to taste one of the four Spirits they were highlighting. My poor husband was given a glass with barely enough whiskey in it for even one tiny sip. It certainly wasn't enough to truly appreciate the the flavors one usually looks for when sampling a whiskey. I was given enough for both of us, so I shared my little sampler with him. Since there was nothing else to see in this area, we headed upstairs to the bar for a craft cocktail. Here we found two bartenders working their hardest to fill orders, clearly understaffed and overwhelmed. I wondered if I had just unknowingly entered a "Stress Test" for an episode of Bar Rescue. We sat at the bar, all the while watching as these poor ladies struggled to make customers happy. Appetizers were delivered from the kitchen incorrectly which meant one of the bartenders had to leave to go to the kitchen to correct the order. That left one person to fill orders as the lines backed up. What a disaster! I will say this.... when we finally got our drinks, there were quite delicious. I would have ordered a second, and maybe some food, but there were no menus to be found, and after what we experienced, it wasn't worth the effort.
Maybe The Broken Spoke is used to a younger, less demanding crowd? As I whispered to my husband, the place was crawling with Millennials. I'm not a hater, but I honestly felt over-dressed, over-age, and I was literally over-it, so we left before the band even started to play. I would have paid a higher cover charge for a more intimate event with better planning and better service. No plans to go back. Ever.
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