Swaby's Tavern — Restaurant in City of Auburn

Wow. I went here as a kind of step-back-in-time since I had been here decades ago with an Auburn-ite. It is not as good as it once was. The decorations are still interesting, but I don’t understand why they would seat Marilyn Monroe in the electric chair. It totally detracts from the display and the thought of actually sitting in the chair yourself. Our waitress knew almost nothing about the offerings. I had to get up from our booth and go to the other side of the place to see the beer selections because she didn’t “know about beers”. Huh? She’s a waitress in a bar! The beer selection was terrible and seemed like it had been forced on them by their distributor. No variety of types. We were going to have wings and then entrees. After having the wings we decided to stop there - they were very bad. Dry and flavorless. We ordered Honey Garlic but there was no coating on the wings. They were just dry flavorless wings. It wasn’t until we got to the bottom of the basket that we found some honey. Just a thin layer of honey on the paper basket liner. No garlic or hint of garlic flavor. Failure. I actually said to my companion, “Why would I trust them to prepare any more food for us?” We got out of there after paying. Probably tipped too much...

This is a bar and a restaurant. There were people at the bar, just drinking, and a handful of table of people dining. It wasn't full.

Our group were seated everything was normal. After ordering we sat & chatted until their young bartender decided to impress the few people at the bar by turning the music up ... so loud we could not hear the person next to us.

Our waitress was great. She kept turning the music down, but baby bartender kept turning it up- higher than I have EVER heard it before. Seriously- we just sat there staring at each other because we couldn't talk. We could even hear the person sitting right next to us.

Our waitress kept turning it down but baby bartender kept cranking it. It took forever for our food to arrive, making the experience worse.

Honestly, I don't know if I...

I went here with a group of girl friends late at night on the recommendation of a local, and we were completely ignored by the bartenders. This must be a local place that does not like outsiders to come in because the bartenders would not make eye contact, with us, ignored us in favor of talking to a couple of people standing RIGHT NEXT to us. In addition I had two separate friends have lemon slices thrown at them. This isn’t a place to go to if you’re from out of town as you’ll be completely ignored. All my friends and I wanted to do was drink and play darts, we weren’t bothering anyone and we had a horrible,...