Water Street Tavern — Restaurant in Kent

Sending in a review because it seems my friend’s review was taken down. Such a shame this place has become, if you’re lucky to get a good drink that’s cool! 95% of the time it’s undrinkable. That’s whatever in my opinion. Their service is what’s absolutely diabolical. Talked to a bartender who gave us the green light to go upstairs, there were chairs by a gate and we sat there. We were causing absolutely no trouble, just vibing with our birthday girl. This bartender comes up and begins screaming at us and I don’t mean “hey get out of here.” I mean exercising his vocal cords and screaming like we were 50 feet away. We calmly told him we can go, there must have been a miscommunication because HE TOLD US we can come upstairs and his power trip was definitely not over because he proceeds to stomp over to my friend and rip the drink out of his hand and puts his hands on him. Look. I don’t want to bring race into this… but in this political environment it feels necessary. The only person this bartender targeted was our black friend. The only drink he threw was our black friend and the only person he was putting his hands on was my black friend. He was continuously putting his hands on him as well, while we were calmly exiting and walking down the stairs he was SHOVING him as if we weren’t already moving. This man has STRONG anger issues and should not be working there if he can’t handle the calmest of customers. It got to a point our friend has to tell him, “if you put your hands on me one more time I will defend myself” there shouldn’t have even been a first time!!! STOP DELETING OUR REVIEWS, I am copying this and plan to continue posting it if it...

I have only been to Water street a handful of times and each time was not the best experience. Inside the building my phone never works.. while I’ve never had their food, drink prices are decent.. however they get 3 stars from me because the last time I was in there, I ordered a Long Island (my go to), but I don’t really drink soda anymore so if I can remember, I tend to ask the bartender to swap for something else and grenadine or something but before I could ask her to change it, she had already loaded the cup with coke before anything else.. now, I’m not a professional bartender but I do order Long Island a lot and usually the coke is the last thing to go in and usually just a splash.. I decided to keep it anyway.. after a couple of sips I was already over it.. I eventually took the drink back up to the bar to see if they would remake the drink for me.. I saw another bartender that I’ve only heard good things about.. I asked her with the other girl there, and instead of remaking it, they only offered to add more sours to it.. I honestly didn’t want that, as it wouldn’t do anything but just intensify the already unwanted taste.. they both were adamant! So I accepted it.. sure enough I still ended up not wanting it. That drink could have sent me into a diabetic coma. Thankfully my drink was only $4 that night so not much was lost but the service could have...

This is your stereotypical college bar. While I like all of the people who work there he's the real deal about this place:

First, the bouncer might as well be a federal judge. They will be investigating your ID (especially if it's out state) like Trump with a middle eastern visa. I'm 27 and they called the cops on my out of state ID in the middle of winter. So I had to endure the bitter cold blast of Kent until they arrived.

Next, getting to the bar is like pushing your way to the front of a group of teenage girls at a Justin Bieber concert. PRO TIP: if you are a girl, never let your boyfriend go to get the drinks... it's takes men at the water street tavern an average of 45 minutes longer than girls to get a drink (see attached excel file containing data...jk)

Then, when it's time to pee... ugh. You will have to push past giant groups of friends screaming their conversations to one another. Then, when you enter the soaking wet, two-stall bathroom, both stalls will both be out of toilet paper and there will be a drunk girl balling her eyes out. Fortunately however, there will be another drunk girl who totally loves your outfit and wants to be BFF. You might be able to convince her to barge into the men's bathroom and ask for some TP.

But--- the people who work there are pretty nice and when it's not crowded (say on a Wednesday at noon) it's not...