Bar Redux — Restaurant in New Orleans

Last week, I went here to see a friend's show. The bartender was ridiculously slow. It seemed like he was drunk or high, but he had no focus; he would start making someone's drink, and then just start talking to someone else while still holding their unfinished drink. He also made no effort to keep track of who had been waiting for a drink, and tended to serve his friends first. At one point, I waited twenty minutes for service when the bar wasn't even busy. I don't think I've ever seen such slow, disorganized service. This weekend, I was back again for a poetry reading. When I showed up, my friend had already placed a dinner order, but over an hour later, she still hadn't received her food. When the food finally came, the waitress just said she was sorry for the wait and gave my friend complimentary fries. My friend inadvertently laughed because the wait had been so absurdly long. Apparently the waitress took offense because a minute later, the manager (possibly the owner?) came out and explained passive aggressively (and loudly enough to be rude to the poet reading at that moment) that the grill took a long time to heat up and that her food (a portobello sandwich) takes a long time to cook. If this was actually the case, the waitress could have come out a half hour into the wait to give us a heads up, or the bartender could have told her, when she ordered, that it would be a long wait. Finally, as we were leaving, the bartender got in my friend's face and yelled at her for making his girlfriend (the waitress) feel bad, and that the food took an hour-and-a-half because there were three (three!) whole orders ahead of hers... This place hosts great events, and I would give it a high rating for its atmosphere and the great shows there, but there's absolutely no excuse for treating your patrons so poorly. I won't be back unless there's a...

The bar-mosphere is awesomeness incarnate! The food is great! The live music is enthralling. Especially the Strange Creatures EDM, goth, new wave night! Just don't close your eyes 4 a second, need I say more? .....Sure! Please do!.....Ok! It is not acceptable 2 accidentally rest your eyes, nor does it matter if you stay awake after said mishap. It does not matter how tired we may be from bike delivering food all morning and afternoon in the quarter and surrounding areas during the summer. .....Yeah we know! Why'd u Do that?......We! It was both of us! We went to coagulate with a church of like minded kine that only conjoin once a month..... On the night of a holy full moon?.....No, oddly enough, just the last Saturn's day of the month, we think, any way it's a rarity and opportunities must be taken no matter the energetic cost.... I concur!....I'm glad we agree on something!....Me 2! Well at least they "politely" asked us to vacate the premise after rousing US from said 20 min meditation in front of our new friends....Yes, Politely(said through clenched teeth). We obviously were not trashed cuz we skate back, fast due to your anger properly channeled.....Psssst! I think one of our new friends is a narc(said in hushed tones).....I would not doubt it especially since the belief in fascist thought being good is expanding at an alarming rate amongst the scared humans...... We will have to be careful.....Yes...

I had the dreadful opportunity to attend this establishment on 01/26/2025.

It was a chilly night in the New Orleans metropolitan area, and I requested a delicious shooter of my favorite spirit, Jägermeister. The middle-aged man in the wonderfully clad camo overalls accepted this request and poured me said spirit.

Once placed in front of me, I noticed what I thought was a piece of food residue. This was not a big deal, as I understand glasses can be hard to clean if it’s a busy crowd inside the bar. But to my surprise, once I removed the unknown debris from my glass, it began to inch backward and forward. Obviously, I didn’t order noodles with my drink, so I alerted the barkeep to announce my displeasure at discovering a larva in my drink. He took the larva from my hand and said, ‘This is a piece of a lime; they start to move when they touch alcohol.’ I’m not sure how much of this is true, as I’m not familiar with produce and how they react to alcohol, but I imagine this statement wasn’t true. I paid for the shot, as asking for a re-pour in a clean glass was obviously off the table.

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