Hideaway — Restaurant in Cave Creek

Stopped in about closing time last night, parked in side. Last call came right then... had a quick Captain with Coke and kindly shuffled out along with 6 or 8 oters. Sat in truck to catch-up texting for a spell (they have good wyfy service), then was approached by an employee to check on my condition. I thanked him for his consideration. He was a real friendly young man and we chatted for a bit. I was explaining about my 1 Captain with Coke (that seemed to be his assignment), after a brutal 18 hour day. He was like, ya I feel the same way sometimes. Several stabs at determining my true condition and we were good. Explained the parked deal wyfy etc...be gone real soon. Mouth musta gottaway from me for a minute cuz... I'm explaining the rigamortis pain I was experiencung, having abstained form my prescription remedy for it, all day long. I commented that I was currently considering correcting that issue as we spoke. Well...he's like... "really ? I'm really having a similar situation right now also...can I talk you out of some help.??? Na. Just have my last dose ! " Bla bla bla... I'm pretty sure my poor judgment led to what followed shortly thereafter. So l guess we're " pals " now, And, I'm pretty sure he's O k 'd finishing my text as well using the special spot over in the back corner to "HIDE OUT" JUST IN CASE I didn't want the authorities to see me from the street. Or if I wanted to do a stay-over he'd be good with that too. I'm like...me? Stay-over? Sleep what off??? This is the thing though...within minutes my wanna-be ' pal ' shows up at my window with another young employee. My ride is running, I roll down the window, confirm my imminent departure from the property and offered an appology for whatever. Lights all out, everybody gone...no big deal, I'm out of here. Then .... Bam ... "Not so fast mister! I feel that you are impaired, so I'm NOT WANTING TO ALLOW you to drive out of here in your condition." I reassured my seemingly grateful 'pal ' as well as his " not so fast " comrade that my condition was" DOT" intact. He Creapedly suggested that I would not be driving anywhere tonight. He projected continuous hostility throughout his poorly exercised interrogation. Virtually every word; question, statement, comment and resultant finding was disrespectful, rudely presented, poorly delivered, not based in fact and seemed to be a self-serving performance of some kind. His demeanor was controlling as was it out of control. I became concerned while witnessing the digression of his demeanor, with intensifying body language, agressive movements and overall hostility. Meanwhile, 'pal' suggested that I might reconsider his previous request to "help him out !?" I planted a stern discerning glare at him, adding some clarifying . I'm 65 years old, familiar with many forms of aggression and can handle myself. Earned wisdom has taught me to simply avoid phisical altercation; regardless of circumstance. A young hot-head wannabe projecting authority in a HIDE AWAY croud is provably unhealthy. Having said that... l was feeling overwhelmed with an anxiety/ adrenalin type rush and suspected some sort of 'takedown' attempt. The ongoing disrespect, complete disregard of my story and the increasing aggressive hostility, with only one end in my sight, overwhelmed my desire to prove my sobriety. At that point... I appropriately repositioned my 'concealed carry' to a more advantageous position. Startled, ' Mister Hard-Ass ' abandoned his 'in my face' position and shouted out. ."OK ! AND NOW.... you're threatening me with a firearm?!!" He did not move back to his previouly preferred window position. I assured him..." I have not threatened you in any manor whatsoever". I had no intention of making threats. I confidently informed him that I was pretty sure that I would be doing the driving on my way home. JUST ANOTHER ODDITY... taking up bucket list space I'd saved for better. I DO WANT TO ADD: Great Joint....good burgers, free pizza at happy hours,...

The previous time I was here, I was charged over $70 for 5 drinks. I thought that seemed high, but couldn’t find my receipt & hadn’t asked at the time, so I just reminded myself to pay attention, this time. This time, we had four beers, and a dozen wings, and the bill came back at 58 and change. I asked the waitress if we could look at the bill, because that seemed a little high. We were there when domestic beer was supposed to be four dollars a bottle, and the wings were $16.50. She snatched the bill out of my hand, looked at it, and said oh I overcharged, you get $2.50 back. She pushed the cash at me, and I asked for the receipts back, and continued to look at them. I told her I still didn’t understand, how we had gotten to over $50. I said that maybe I was wrong, but just wanted to know. We had four bottles of beer, and a dozen wings. She explained that the shock top, and Bluemoon were not domestic, and were seven and 9 dollars apiece ( the other 2 were domestic) . She was obviously very annoyed with me for even asking, at this point, and I apologetically said, can we add that up, that still doesn’t seem like it should be over $50. She grabbed the receipt, re-rang it, and shoved it back at me. I didn’t dare to ask anything else. I didn’t want to ruin the waitresses day, I just wanted to be charged fairly. I will probably still go back, as this bar has great music, but I will be careful not to run a tab, and watch what I am...

So we went to the Hideaway ( and have been going there for 7 yrs now) and the drink prices were JACKED! We like going there because Mark never jacked his prices like everybody else. Recently he raised beer prices a quarter....which is not a big deal. However yesterday bottle beers had gone from 3.75 to 5.00 a bottle !! I dont know if it was just for the event or if he now has snowbird season prices.......if it stays like this WE WONT BE BACK !!!! Now I glance at the menu because we ordered a burger added cheese and ordered FF. The ff's were 1.50 and the one slice of cheese was 1.50 ...how ridiculous IM SO ...