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I'm giving this place 5 stars because I want them to succeed in bringing a cool music / bar / food venue to my neighborhood.

Their real score based upon my experience tonight is 3 stars. Here are my suggestions.

Tune the Sound It was too loud tonight. The space is too small for an unshielded drum kit. The crash symbols especially wash everything out. The rest of the musicians have to increase volume to compensate, and we're left with a muddy sound that is physically uncomfortable.

I suggest to shield any drum kit to contain that sound and then tune levels so the instruments and vocals are clearly distinguishable. Overall volume could be reduced several decibels.

Create a Bar Menu The bar was very basic. No bitters. Grand Marnier was the only liqueur. No club soda (!!!).

At $16 per drink, the bar should be more sophisticated and creative. Either come up with a perspective and some house drinks, or stock mixology basics like Angostura bitters, Campari or Aperol, at least a couple interesting liqueurs like Chartreuse, St. Germain, Sour Apple, Amaretto, plus standards like sweet and dry vermouth, lemon, lime, orange, olives and please, club soda!

With these additions we can enjoy classics like a Manhattan, an Old Fashioned, a Negroni, various martinis, and we can get creative with the liqueurs to create interesting flavors.

Up the Food It was fry fry fry. Chicken and potatoes. Nothing for vegetarians. And it was slow.

How about some quick pre-made items? Raw veggies with hummus. A cheese plate. Ideas like that which can be prepped the day before and served in 5 minutes.

With these criticisms, why even the 3 stars you ask?

Easy parking.

Obvious investment in the sound and lighting, just needs tuning.

Quality performers the night I came, I just couldn't hear the quality because the drums overwhelmed so it was uncomfortably loud.

Nice furniture choices.

Great potential to be a chill, classy music bar and...

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