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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: muzikfrk03 on December 05, 2007, 04:54:00 pm

Title: decent bars near 930
Post by: muzikfrk03 on December 05, 2007, 04:54:00 pm
anyone know of any decent bars around the club, im going tonight wanna get there early due to the snow, but dont wanna wait in the cold
Title: Re: decent bars near 930
Post by: Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface on December 05, 2007, 04:57:00 pm
www.duffysdc.com (http://www.duffysdc.com)
 
 Half a block away -- really good.
Title: Re: decent bars near 930
Post by: muzikfrk03 on December 05, 2007, 05:01:00 pm
looks good thanks alot
Title: Re: decent bars near 930
Post by: MonkeyPants on December 05, 2007, 05:24:00 pm
I wouldn't call Duffy's "really good"
 
 It's a fine bar, but the service at the tables is really inconsistent and they regularly screw up the tab on tables.  If you go, go to the bar and pay for your drinks as you go.
Title: Re: decent bars near 930
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on December 05, 2007, 05:29:00 pm
If you're into high price Belgian beers and absolutely abysmal service, go to the Saloon on U Street.
Title: Re: decent bars near 930
Post by: godsshoeshine on December 05, 2007, 05:34:00 pm
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Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
  If you're into high price Belgian beers and absolutely abysmal service, go to the Saloon on U Street.
totally there
Title: Re: decent bars near 930
Post by: Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface on December 05, 2007, 05:37:00 pm
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Originally posted by MyraEllen:
  I wouldn't call Duffy's "really good"
 
 It's a fine bar, but the service at the tables is really inconsistent and they regularly screw up the tab on tables.  If you go, go to the bar and pay for your drinks as you go.
I have never experienced either of these problems, nor watered-down drinks like I have at DC9.
Title: Re: decent bars near 930
Post by: HoyaSaxa03 on December 05, 2007, 06:06:00 pm
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Originally posted by Julian, good manners AFICIONADO:
  watered-down drinks ... at DC9.
my liver circa saturday morning disagrees
Title: Re: decent bars near 930
Post by: Herr Professor Doktor Doom on December 05, 2007, 08:56:00 pm
Some people don't like Saloon because of its stringent anti-dickhead regulations, but the food is really good and the service is fine as long as you don't act like a 21 year old fratboy.
Title: Re: decent bars near 930
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on December 05, 2007, 10:51:00 pm
I don't act like a dickhead, and I'm far from a 21 year old, but making a table wait 20 plus minutes order a beer, then not allowing them to order food with the beer or when  the beer was brought to the able, then waiting another 15 minutes to come back to take the food order is definitely a dickhead move. All in all, it took us 90 minutes to have a sandwich and a quick beer; the vast majority of thos minutes were spent waiting for the servers next move.
 
 
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Originally posted by They call me Doctor Doom.:
  Some people don't like Saloon because of its stringent anti-dickhead regulations, but the food is really good and the service is fine as long as you don't act like a 21 year old fratboy.
Title: Re: decent bars near 930
Post by: HoyaSaxa03 on December 05, 2007, 10:55:00 pm
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Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
  not allowing them to order food with the beer or when  the beer was brought to the [t]able
i agree, this is a really weird policy
Title: Re: decent bars near 930
Post by: manimtired on December 05, 2007, 11:48:00 pm
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Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
  If you're into high price Belgian beers and absolutely abysmal service, go to the Saloon on U Street.
totally agreed. wonderful selection of beers...never going back.
Title: Re: decent bars near 930
Post by: Herr Professor Doktor Doom on December 05, 2007, 11:58:00 pm
the no ordering beers with food policy is weird... the rest of the policies such as no loud talking, are definitely anti-dickhead.
 
 It's a quirky neighborhood bar where the owner actually cares about what goes on within his walls, even if some of those cares are oddball...  that makes the place special, along with the great beer selection and food.  For every indignant person who swears never to go back, there are people like me who are glad for that much more room at the bar.  :)
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Post by: K8teebug on December 06, 2007, 09:09:00 am
agreed.  Yummy belgian beers trump slow service for me.
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Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on December 06, 2007, 10:28:00 am
It seems that the point would be to get the customer to buy as many 10 dollar beers as possible. I've never been a server, but I can't imagine such a policy making the server's job any easier.
 
 
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Originally posted by Hoya Paranoia:
   
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Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
  not allowing them to order food with the beer or when  the beer was brought to the [t]able
i agree, this is a really weird policy [/b]
Title: Re: decent bars near 930
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on December 06, 2007, 10:31:00 am
There's a fine line between people controlling their own dickheadedness and a business owner doing the controlling for them. At that point, I think the business owner becomes the dickhead. The Saloon=The Birchmere?
 
 
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Originally posted by They call me Doctor Doom.:
  the no ordering beers with food policy is weird... the rest of the policies such as no loud talking, are definitely anti-dickhead.
 
 It's a quirky neighborhood bar where the owner actually cares about what goes on within his walls, even if some of those cares are oddball...  that makes the place special, along with the great beer selection and food.  For every indignant person who swears never to go back, there are people like me who are glad for that much more room at the bar.   :)  
Title: Re: decent bars near 930
Post by: i got id on December 06, 2007, 08:48:00 pm
I've been going to Saloon for years and I have never once had a problem with service there....
Title: Re: decent bars near 930
Post by: frazman on December 06, 2007, 11:41:00 pm
I have to chime in here because the one time I was at the Saloon the service was utterly abysmal.