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| - We were in town for the Cardinal football game. We left the hotel and walked to district a couple hours before kick off. We found most of the restaurants packed, with up to a 45 minute wait at saddle ranch.
We took a gander at this place. Checked yelp and saw only one review, it gave it one star. With the main complaint being no draft beer. Seemed a little strange, a bar without draft beer. We went in anyway, were seated right away in the farthest corner of the place next to the kitchen door.
Lots of hustle and bustle about the place. Cute waitresses, little shorts and cowboy boots. Our waitress swings by among the traffic of other waitresses headed to the kitchen. I order a Coors light in the bottle, while I study the menu. It's a pretty standard BBQ joint menu, a burger with pulled pork on it catches my eye. Looks interesting, so when the waitress returns with my beer I order it. My friend orders the pulled pork sandwich.
I grab my beer and take a big pull off the bottle and I am met with hot beer. Not room temp beer like in England, but hot beer. My companion tells me that the mountains are not blue. I get up and find the waitress and tell her. The waitress took the beer back to the bar then returns with the same beer and a glass of ice. She told us that the bar tenders had got the beer on ice late so all of their beer was warm. She recommended that I pour the beer over ice. I had to tell her that beer isn't like a mixed drink, you don't pour it over ice. I then ordered a coke as our food arrived.
My dinner looked appealing enough, a good sized burger with a heap of onion rings. My companions sandwich looked fair to. She tried to pick it up only to find the bun had soaked and fell apart. I opened my burger with pulled pork to find, to no surprise no pulled pork. We just decided that this was not going to get any better and ate some of the food. The onion rings were good, the burger was at best ok, very dry.
Our check comes and wouldn't you know it, that f___ing hot beer was still on there. I just want out of this joint so I pay the waitress with two twenties on a 29 dollar bill. Waitress brings me back a ten and one, one dollar bill. No change to use as a tip, I left the one dollar bill as a tip.
This place is lacking in management and training for its employees. If your running a bar and are only going to serve bottled beer put it in the walk in fridge a couple days before you put it on ice. Poorly run restaurant, we won't be back.
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