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| - Note: my location probably says Denver, I relocated to CO two weeks before this review. During my 6 months living in North Las Vegas, there were literally three places to go for a "good" time (more on the quotes later) in my neighborhood - here, the Cannery, and Mulligans. I'll save reviews for the latter two and focus on this hole first.
So I've been to a lot of pubs. This place qualifies - they have an independent restaurant they share the premeses with (and although they are "separate" businesses really, I'm tossing the extra star to Dick's since that's where I ordered and ate the food) but it's really more of a bar with incidental food (and I think it's great for bar fare).
Too bad food alone can't make up for just a shitty vibe.
I confess that some of my disappointment in this place might be a single example of pretty much every divey bar in the valley, but I still stand by my rating - it's just that 90% of pubs / bars in the valley (especially off the strip / Fremont) would rate no better than 2 stars on a good day. The reasons I will cite would apply pretty well universally.
If you come from any place in America, or have even visited any place, that has a "Cheers" in your neighborhood, you might mistakenly think that this could be your place, and that's where I went wrong. You don't really try to have a conversation with anyone at Whiskey Dick's, for any reason, unless you bring your own. I'm a social animal and I like to meet people when I'm new in a strange place. Not that difficult in DC, Denver, Portland, you name it. Vegas? Dick's specifically? Everyone is too busy drinking rail liquor (because there's not a good draft beer in sight), chain smoking and pumping the bartop slots full of $20s to pay you more than a head nod if you try to strike something up.
Now the locals, those are the cornerstone of any truly good neighborhood bar (and this is the only one in the area that stands a real chance of BEING that bar). The locals here are all super tight knit, not at all welcoming (you could come here 5 days a week and they won't acknowledge you, even if you chat first), and just as obnoxious drunk as you wish they wouldn't be. I'm pretty sure, as I've gotten to know two people there pretty well, that every regular in that place has slept with everyone else (bartenders included); the bros and rednecks there will (and actually did to a friend of mine) try like hell to steal your girl while she's drunk...
So yeah. I'm not rating this place on the drinks or the service which are both just meh. I'm rating it as a guy who moves to a place and looks for a decent place to lounge around that isn't my house. If the vibe in here was friendly and welcoming, and I hadn't been touched by social tragedies (of others, and one of my own) on several occasions that were DIRECTLY the result of Whiskey Dick's, I might have at least lukewarm feelings about the place. But in my eyes, this is pretty much the best choice for someone who teeters on the edge of a long downward hate spiral in life.
Better off staying home and picking up a hobby.
It's not as bad as the Park Tavern in Denver, pretty much only because Dick's doesn't have steakhead bouncers that harass you (seriously) before you even get in the door, and again after you leave and spend money with them.
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