Remember the old days when a bar is just a bar?
Well Stratenger's is such a bar. A place to go to drink. Funny that people seem so concerned with defining exactly what kind of bar it is.
For me, and the others in my neighborhood it is our local. A big ol' bar where the beer is always cold and house wine is about five bucks. A place where you can walk in wearing your Crocs and not worry if anyone sees you ( I personally would worry. Crocs are gross). A place with a big friendly patio where you can seat yourself and servers aren't crabby if a single person is sitting at a table for four. And yes the food really is good, and the decor really is bad.
They don't use the word 'gastro' , they haven't heard of 'fusion', and it's still affordable to get good and hammered during the week, and perfectly acceptable to go back and do it all over again the next day.
It's exactly how a bar should be.