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| - This was so close to being a 4 star review until the very end of my time here. I'm giving it 3 because the food was decent, the beer selection was insane, and its convenient for brew and view. To see why its not 4 stars read on....
I went with my husband on a Friday around 3:30 for their happy hour to get toasty before seeing a movie - a pretty convenient location for that. When we first got in, I remarked how I couldn't believe there was a woman at the bar with her friend and her infant child in a stroller next to them. Something I'm not used to seeing but the place was pretty empty at that point so I disregarded it. (Even though if I came with a baby in a stroller- which I would not- I would choose to sit at one of the 50 empty tables and not AT the bar, but that's just me.)
The place was big and as I said mostly empty, and somehow the hostess still managed to seat us in an area with no waitress. After eyeing a few of them as they walked by our table to help the tables around us, one finally came over to us - "Is anyone helping you? I can go figure out who is supposed to be your waitress." No, you are going to take our order.
Like I said, the food honestly was pretty good. We had the chicken lettuce wraps which had a ton of pine nuts (yum!) and came with three delicious dipping sauces - hoisin, peanut satay, and a sweet and spicy. We also had the chicken nachos and onion rings which were average. The onion rings were served with your choice of dipping sauces- ranch or slightly pink ranch. (I like to call it Ranch Rose) I would highly suggest they develop a horseradish dipping sauce.
Overwhelmed by the beer selection, my husband asked for a recommendation, saying he usually goes for the lagers, pale ales, and amber ales, and the waitress had no clue what he should get, only that "I remember someone ordering one of the pale ales earlier and didn't like it." Ok. . .I ordered a rum and coke, seeing as well drinks were supposed to be $4 for the happy hour special. We got out beverages and I tasted my drink and thought the bartender screwed up and put stoli vanilla in it - my husband tasted it and agreed. Oh well, I'm not one to complain. When ordering our second round, I specifically emphasized "ANOTHER RUM and coke." This time, a bus boy brought our drinks to us and handed me the glass and said "Your Captain and coke." Here's a lesson to all the waitresses out there - when your special is $4 well drinks and your clientele doesn't specify the brand of alcohol they want, that means "well liquor." Don't substitute it with "top shelf" liquor (if you can call Captain that) and definitely DON'T substitute regular rum with spiced rum. "Captain and Coke" is a VERY specific drink. "Rum and Coke" is not.
It turned from bad to worse when the kid in the booth behind us decided to toss his straw over and it hit me in the head. I turned and scoured at the table of parents and they shrugged it off and pointed to the kid as if to say, "Oh it wasn't our fault, he was just a kid." For all the parents reading this, if your children can't behave and you can't control them, don't bring them to happy hour. It is NOT okay to shrug off bad behavior like that. If it were my child, I would demand he apologize to whomever he hit.
When we got the bill, I was glad to see that I was charged the full price for my "rum and cokes." Stellar, exactly why I came to happy hour. As we left, the place had filled in pretty well, and I saw ANOTHER stroller with a baby in it, only this time the parents were just standing around not even in seats or at the bar! (They also had a toddler who was sitting on the floor of the bar area.) I'm sorry, I'm just appalled. I've never seen babies saddling up to a bar before. What if someone accidentally walked by and spilled beer on your baby?! A bar is not a place for children, I don't care how bad you need a drink and its happy hour.
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