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| - First off, this is the first review I've ever written on this site. I've never had an experience that I felt the need to write about, and I felt that everyone else covered everything in this city pretty well. After tonight, I felt the need to post my opinion about this place. I use this site plenty for checking out new restaurants and bars and I hope people read my review as a warning too.
I will start off by saying that I went to Gin Mill tonight specifically to play trivia with a group of friends who go there every week. Last week the team came in first and won a $20 gift certificate. Tonight, our team came in first again and we won an additional $20 gift certificate and even a "free" round of drinks. Nathan Richie runs trivia and he is a stand up guy who spent a good bit of time with us after the game chatting and just being really friendly. I think he's great and I love the game he ran.
The trouble came after he left, at the close of night when we closed our tab. We came with a group of five, 2 of which weren't even drinking. Our drinking was broken down pretty easily... We won a round of 5 Blue Moon beers (again, 3 of us were drinking, so 2 of the 5 freebie beers were redistributed between the 3 of us)... As for paid beers we had the following:
Me: 3 Miller High Lifes, 1 Blue Moon
Person #2: 3 Blue Moons, 1 High Life
Person #3: 2 Blue Moons, 2 High Lifes
For a grand total of 5 Miller High Lifes and 7 Blue Moons to pay for.
We also had our 5 "free" Blue Moons, so we had a total of 17 beers between the group.
We went to pay our tab at the end of the night, and we had a $20 gift certificate for placing first in trivia the week before. We figured that would cover the bulk of our beers, so we didn't bring much money. We were presented with a tab for 12 Blue Moons and either 6 or 7 High Lifes (I don't remember which number it was as I was more focused on the extra Blue Moons, since High Life was only $2). We argued with the bartender that it was way wrong and that he was charging us for our free round of Blue Moon (since we DID drink 12 Blue Moons, but 5 were supposed to be free due to trivia that night) and he claimed that he already took 5 off the tab.
The bartender was accusing the three of us of drinking 22-23 beers between us, which wasn't correct in the least. We tried to argue with him. When we closed my girlfriend was with us and she was one of the 2 people who didn't have an ounce of alcohol to drink... She could even recount how many beers we had and knew that we were being accused over 5-6 beers more then we got.
What was great is that we asked if anyone else had ordered drinks on our tab and he said "maybe when you first got here," which alarmed us. The entire night we only had 1 person order drinks for our table the whole night. No one else went to the bar to order a single drink for us.
He wouldn't listen to us and eventually we got him to take our freshly earned gift certificate from trivia that night (one that we planned to use next tuesday) towards the 5-6 extra beers he added to our tab.
I loved the trivia and the guy who ran it was great, but the bartender is either an idiot or decided that he didn't agree with how much money he was making that night and thought he could squeeze an extra $20-30 out of a group.
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