Manhattan 9 — Restaurant in Lubbock

So today is my 60th birthday and we’ve been wanting to go here for a while. We walked up to the door and we saw the place that they were SUPPOSED to open up so we could give them the password, but there was nobody there— we knocked but ended up just opening the door and walking in and sat at the bar— as small as this is, it IS a part of the “experience” we were looking forward to— and we had the password— that we didn’t get to experience— a bit of disappointing, especially since we’ve been meaning to go here for at least a year and for my birthday, we were really looking forward to it. The food was good, staff was good, drinks w ere good, but with the disappointment of just walking in the dirt, we could’ve gone anywhere else and...

I had what had to be the worst cocktail I ever tried there. I drink plenty of liquor but both my partner and I agreed my beverage tasted like straight up rat poison or something. For how MID the food was and bad my drink was, the price was NOT worth it. The food tasted frozen and my partners meat was like touch and chewy? Seems like they are trying to overcompensate with the mid century/ hipster aesthetic, but none of that matters if what you serve isn’t good. But the bartenders are highly trained so I don’t know what I’m talking about, right? Try to listen to your customers rather than be condescending and maybe I wouldn’t walk into a nearly empty bar on a...

We walked in, ordered our drinks, took one sip and left. The Drinks were Terrible. Absolutely the worst I’ve ever experienced. I’ve been making and drinking anejo old fashioneds for YEARS and their rendition was pure gasoline. Maybe it was the inexperienced bartender or the recipe. Idk. But it was bad. And the Mule, the probably easiest drink to make now after it being so popular for over a decade now, tasted like cheap sweet and sour and no ginger beer. This place could be cool, retrain the bartenders and have some quality control. And get better ice. Cheap gas station bag ice for drinks is unacceptable. Total for both bad drinks was...