Jefferson Street Pub — Restaurant in Huntsville

Tried to stop in and have a drink before getting our night started on Saturday (night), September 14. Had the absolute worst experience with the female bartender on the right side of the bar. As soon as we got in me and my boyfriend both got a drink, and my friend got a beer. My friend intended to use ApplePay, which is unavailable here, so instead she was going to pull her card number up on her phone so that the bartender could type it in. It was taking a second because her service was bad, but we were for sure sitting at the bar, and obviously not running out on a tab for a beer. The other two drinks were already paid for. Once my boyfriend realized what was happening, he started to get cash out to just cover the drink to save the troubles. Before he could get his money out, another man came up to the bar, was talking to my friend about what was going on, and was seemingly going to cover the drink for her. I don’t know if there was a miscommunication or what exactly happened, but he did in fact pay for her beer (a Miller). I don’t know what this had to do with the bartender, but it definitely rubbed her the wrong way. She came back over to my friend for whatever reason and said in an absurdly rude way, “You MIGHT want to Venmo him,” and walked away. I kinda looked at my friend like what? That was kinda rude but whatever. She asked the man for his Venmo, he didn’t want her to send him the money for the beer. Okay fine we move on. My boyfriend then wants to buy us a shot because we’re obviously getting off to a rough start. We decide we want a shot of Alto’s. Okay so my boyfriend is gonna get us this shot. After a few minutes my boyfriend tells me, “I don’t know which one of you pissed that girl off but she’s definitely not trying to get us a drink.” I’m facing my boyfriend in the chair at this point so my back is more so towards the bartender, so I turn around and sure enough she’s on her phone just scrolling on what looked like Tik Tok. I stayed turning around looking at her until she finally looked up at me, I’m sure because she felt me staring. My boyfriend I believe says, can we get some shot? She asks what we want, I double check with my friend on the Alto’s, and tell the bartender that’s what we want. First she asks me what is Alto’s, which is interesting coming from a bar tender. I have a feeling she knows exactly what Alto’s is, and just wanted to be smart with me. Anyways, I tell her it’s tequila. She says they don’t have Alto’s. I say okay what tequilas do you have? She says they’re over there you can look and see, and walks away. The whole interaction was very ugly and at this point I don’t even want to spend my money with this girl. I turn back to my boyfriend and I tell him nevermind, don’t worry about it anymore. The bartender quickly came back and leaned in towards me and said “and if you wanna get smart about it I can have you all thrown out”……..before I can even look at her or she can get another breath in she’s like “yep security get them out these three.” Now as a bartender myself I’ve been trying hard since Saturday to try and understand what kind of reason we gave her to deserve this kind of treatment. I have debated leaving a review since Saturday but it is STILL bothering me two days later. It was quite embarrassing really. I hope that this is taken seriously and I’ve seen in previous reviews that you sometimes look back at camera footage, and I really hope that you do. If for nothing else just to see that there was no ill intent or ill feelings towards your bartender, but certainly towards us as customers. I could have easily dished back the nasty attitude that she was giving me, and then maybe that would have given her a better reason, but that wasn’t the case. I definitely won’t be back to JSP and it honestly makes me not want to come back to that side of the street at all, seeing as how most of the time the bartenders work around in all other...

As I sit here trying to find the right words to express my thoughts I can’t help but to feel anger and frustration , so excuse me while I begin to express the raw emotions that I feel. I reflect to the year of 2009, my co-workers decided it would be a great idea to go celebrate downtown and I happily obliged to partake. The setting was agreed to meet and visit the establishment of Sammy T’s which immediately I felt apprehensive about going but against my better judgement I went along with the idea. Full of joy we exited our vehicles and walked up to the establishment only to be reminded of the world we live in. Immediately after my coworkers were allowed in I was greeted with a level of rejection.., “Sir you can’t enter because your picture doesn’t match your drivers license” Excuse me I replied he repeated the same and denied my entry into the establishment. Angrily and hurt I walked off, trying to make sense of what took place.. February 2, 2020 my wife, and her co workers decide to have a nightcap and do business with Jefferson Street Pub. As we begin to walk to the entrance I’m immediately reminded of the issue never discussed that we deal with every day. I see the bouncer (Mike who wouldn’t give me his last name) pointing at me, which seemed odd. I walk up and he says “You won’t be able to come in because of what you are wearing”. Without a single word I turned around and walked off as everyone stood in confusion wondering what the reason is. As I walked off I looked at others, gazing at their attire and felt an immediate frustration. What separated the ensembles they chose to wear from mine? I told my wife “ I apologize but I need for Mike to explain to me what is wrong with my attire” We walk back to the front very calmly and asked for an explanation. I was welcomed with the idea that my outfit was not appropriate because my jeans were distressed, all the while we witnessed several individuals walking past us with even worse attire then what I had on. It was never about the attire and in 2009 it was not about my drivers license. I don’t need to even say what it’s about because hopefully you should be able to recognize it. I apologize for the long review but it is 2020, the fact that we are still dealing with these issues is truly disgusting. I refuse to ever support not only this establishment but anything else downtown. Maybe my opinion falls on deaf ears, but I hope that I can spark the change that makes you look in the mirror and ask how we can continue to support this type...

Extremely unhappy to go here to watch a popular football game. They even had a sign outdoors stating they were showing the game. Well partially true…maybe…if you enjoy watching a game with the volume turned completely off while listening to horrible regurgitated disco music from the 80’s. We had already ordered our food and drinks asked our server if they could turn the volume on for the game. There were only 3 or 4 other couples in the bar (now I know why) but he said we would have to ask Jessie. My husband asked “Jessie” at the bar and was told the owner said they couldn’t turn it on. Say what???? We asked if we could cancel our food order so we could go someplace where the game was actually on. Again we were told NO. You have 3 couples in the bar. All are turned toward the screen to watch the game and you just said NO ?! Who is this place trying to appeal to? Customers or the folks that work there? Hmmm. We won’t be back. That’s a shame because the...