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| - The pizza is pretty good and the beers are cold. But that's not enough to overcome the service issues I experienced. I went one afternoon with a group of friends and the place was pretty empty with only three or four guys at the bar. Granted, we were a group of about 15 people, so we suddenly brought the attendance up. We just wanted bar service and a couple of pizzas--we didn't expect table service and the like. The bar tender was the only person working front of the house and she was completely flustered. I get it, a large group walks in and it might seem intimidating, but it didn't really require the barrage of F-bombs. "I'm going to get effing slammed, I effing know it!! They better effing bring me some effing help in here!! I'm the only effing person here until effing 8 tonight!!" Eff, eff, eff, and so on. She was saying this to the customers.
The bar tender seemed beyond disorganized and distracted. She would take an order, start to fill a glass, and then take someone else's order, and start to fill that. Every time anything distracted her, she forgot what she was doing. The bulk of the customers had to remind her to finish their orders. In my case, she greeted my wife and I, asked if we needed menus, and then took someone else's order before we had time to even say yes. It was just a wreck. We all tried to encourage her and tell her she was doing fine, etc... but she just couldn't pull it together. Maybe there's more going on in the background that I don't know about that made it all justified.
My other problem is how this place is dark as hell. We were there mid-day, it was bright and sunny out, yet we walked into a place that was darker than my basement. If felt like I walked into a real alcoholic's bar. One of those joints where it's always dark, allowing the hardcore alcoholics a chance to drink past their hangover free from the harsh light of day and the extra headaches it brings. Dim lights are one thing, but this place was just dark--no lights at all.
I'll probably try this place again, at some point, but I just cannot recommend it at the moment.
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