Monkey Bar Fairhope — Restaurant in Fairhope

Great bar - appreciated by ADULTS! Drinks aren't cheap (they don't sell rot-gut whiskey). Music isn't blaringly loud. Comfortable atmosphere with friendly customers. The place is clean, the bathroom is clean, no piss all over the floor, not a bunch of cheap neon beer signs glowing that special red light to set the mood and there isn't writing on the wall, or carved into a table top or arm chair stating that Mike, or Steve or Danny, or whoever... "was here"! (Not a honky-tonk or a college beer bar that smells of last night's amateur youth's binge drinking vomit). The staff seems to get it, also, they're friendly and...

This place was highly recommended to us so we had high expectations. I'd have given it a 3.5 star rating if I could. The drinks were good but not not great. The service was odd, all but demanding the order from one before both of us were ready to order... that can happen when you only have one menu for 2 people you share. So one of us gets served a cocktail a good 5 minutes before the second person... It was just...

Visited for like 3rd time Sunday afternoon during Fairhope open house. Bartender couldn’t have given 2 shits about serving us in his crocs (nice touch). Not the experience I was expecting considering the cost of merchandise in the attached store. The dirge country music the guy was playing off his phone really added to the whole lame feel. The beer was cold, warranting...