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| - With a growing scene of new places coming to downtown, I'm always stoked to try some place new! I must say, this one didn't hit the mark for me.
My first stop in was on an admittedly beautiful Saturday afternoon. We were there approximately 30 minutes after they opened, and the place was already relatively packed. I gotta admit, I can imagine it being dreadful on a first Friday, an even questioned why they weren't open earlier given the warmer weather we've been having.
My group of friends and I stroll in and decide to order drinks. Given it's newer, we wanted to sample a few of their signature cocktails. EYEROLLS and SIDE EYE and even a few "hurry the eff up" remarks from the bartender were all we were met with...
So maybe she's having a bad day (they've only been open for 30 minutes..... but I'll give her the benefit of the doubt). We order some drinks and she gets to work. Now I didn't watch her make our drinks, nor am I by any means a professional mixologist, but my boo who is experienced in the trade did and she made his drink completely wrong. As in - didn't use a single bottle containing any of the liquors promised in the drink (Midori is a pretty distinct one not listed anywhere on their cocktail menu and his drink was full of it).
So, he says something. And is IMMEDIATELY met with confrontation and irritation from the bartender. She rolls her eyes again, drops a couple dashes of bitters in his drink that it was also missing, and moves on. I'm sorry; but I have very little regard for any place with a signature cocktail list that they then can't manage to mix up properly.
I really, really, REEEEEAAAALLLYYYYYY wanted to like this place. I generally hate video games but loved playing my parents' old Atari as a kid. Mix those games with booze and this should have been a slam dunk! Instead, it felt like I was PacMan getting eaten by an annoying and obnoxious pink ghost. whomp whomp.....
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