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| - I really want to like this place. I mean, it has all the ingredients - good happy hour, big menu, adequate beer selection. What's not to like? Well, I've given it a few tries (and will give it a few more) but it just isn't registering for me as a place I want to come back to over and over again.
First of all, the atmosphere is generic to the extreme. It's a bunch of tables spread over a concrete floor - no ambience, no warm and welcoming feeling. The few tv's scattered around are not making a difference in my opinion. It's just plain vanilla. The lack of any softscape inside makes the place incredibly loud, even when there aren't that many people inside. There's just nothing to absorb the sound so it is quite loud. Like a cavern.
We always sit at the bar - its our preference pretty much any place we go. Service tends to be better at the bar in my experience. However, not so here. The times we've been here it seems like chaos at the bar. First of all, there are only about 15 stools at the bar so it shouldn't be overwhelming. A bar"tender" should be able to deal with that without issue. In our last two visits. it was hard to tell who was a bartender, where they went in between "tending" patrons, or who to ask for a refill. Last time, I counted there were 11 different people behind the small bar in a 15 minute period (not simultaneously). ELEVEN. Some were waitresses getting their own orders filled, some were kitchen staff (I think), some were restocking, and I have no idea who the others were. It was like a revolving door. I never did see the first bartender (or even the second one!) who got our drinks initially again. People came and went and while that in itself wasn't bad, not one of them seemed to pay much attention to the people actually sitting at the bar. No one stayed there long enough to establish any normalcy. I don't know about you, but I want a bar"tender". I want to know who's taking my drink order, who's checking on me to see if I want another, who's bringing my food out...I know, pretty radical concept.
The beer selection had at least 3 IPA's out of 11 drafts so I managed ok there. The happy hour menu is half off all drinks and apps which is good and there are some good things on the menu. Love the bacon wrapped shrimp. But avoid the reuben eggrolls. Those are belly busters and you will not like the after effects. Trust me.
I'll go again. Hopefully they'll get this bartending thing down eventually.
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