Sweet Springs Saloon — Restaurant in California

Not a recent visit but once a place where I spent more than a few evenings when I lived in nearby Baywood Park. Local color, local people, quite the neighborhood joint, a near dive bar attracting the ranching crowd, some of the Cal-Poly S.U. crowd, one of the better shuffleboards in the region--one of a vanishing breed of places in California, on the Central Coast and anywhere else in the U.S. My the stories, the characters, the incidents between the locals, the locals and anyone else; woe betide the man who got the bartender to never let the girlfriend or more usually the wife know that he was hanging out, playing a game of pool or shuffleboard; one Sunday, sunny afternoon, a ranching wife, a gun toting wife made a screeching halt in the parking lot at the front of the building, strode into the saloon and let loose a 13 X 9 casserole, a hot casserole fly, aiming at her errant husband but missing him, slightly grazing the experienced bartender, doing a nasty job on the back bar---who knew that tuna noodle casserole might be considered a near lethal weapon nor how long it took to de-casserole the back bar? Those days when Los Osos and Baywood Park were off across the valley, near isolated but with homes, some of them having amazing views of the Pacific and Morro Bay Rock. Santa Maria style BBQ's every place but this one had a fenced off, back or side patio with outdoor bar and fire pit---community gatherings on BBQ nights or weekend afternoons when the countryside around both little towns had more cows and peas than housing or places to shop. A unique business, the Sweet Springs Saloon, in a very quirky little place on the Central Coast of California....but not so little, not Los Osos,...

Great little saloon in Los Osos. Enough beards and tattoos to feel legit without feeling koff...hipster. We were there for NYE and the cover band had a good mix of hits to keep the crowd going. Oasis, Tom Petty, Cage the Elephant, etc, but a request for a Cure song was met with disdain for some reason... The bartender I had - I regret I didn't get her name - she was attentive and knowledgeable. I ordered an Old Fashioned and was treated with some wonderful mixology and was served one of the best cocktails I've had in a long time. The second one I ordered was that much better. The ambiance was great with a pool table here, a tabletop shuffleboard here, and Rockin New Years Eve on a wide variety of screens throughout. What food I had was (unbelievably) some of the best fish tacos I've had in a long time. Worth a...

Terrible! I've been there a few times. It's empty, it stinks, the service is really bad and the sound quality is not good for live music. A couple of the bartenders are cool but the main bartender with the glasses is extremely rude to customers on a regular basis.I've seen people ask for a non alcoholic beverage and him tell them they can wait in a rude tone while he chit chats for 5 minutes. I'm very surprised he still has his job with how bad his attitude is. If you're in town you might as well go to the Ale House, Nardonies or the Merry Maker where the service is good and the people are respectful to...