The Regal Beagle — Restaurant in San Diego

The Regal Beagle is a nifty, little, appropriately dive bar; which, all holds great 👍. A perfect little neighborhood bar. The service and servers are always friendly and the food is great 👍. The food is delicious consistently. It's a welcoming place to come. There's the good, now let's get into some other stuff. Atmosphere, only gets barely three star and her's my personal opinion. No matter what time a day or shift I come in to hang out, the music is always different and unfortunately never very good. It feels like whomever is working that day, decides to play their personal playlist. It's never recognizable music, it's always some random b side playlist. It has a very dreary tone and feels like a college frat house just randomly playing their, grunge, slightly alternative music... That being said, the place is usually fairly empty and I have to wonder... Gosh, maybe it's the music that's turning people away or not creating a return business. Music, is the soul of people and when you play music, you must keep in mind the general public does not want to listen to your personal playlist. Music is a genre and feeling... It's really important and creates an atmosphere. I guarantee you; that if you started mixing it up a bit more and promoting that you really care about this review and your customers, you consider shifting it up and change it up and start playing more inviting music. I'm from Cleveland, Ohio. Rock n roll Hall of Fame baby! A town with great Motown and funky oldies. I just moved to San Diego and so far the city is great, but, the music scene is thumbs down 👎. Perhaps, start promoting themed nights to get people back in on FB and advertise it. Mix it up and start playing say... Steely Dan, Eric Clapton, some nice blues perhaps and maybe even some good old Yacht Rock, mixed in to the playlist, you maybe have an audience that lingers longer in your cool spot; that has a lot history and if you're old enough to remember Three's Company, then you know what I'm talking about with...

Mediocre food with decent taps, crowded seating, and a bartender who thought he was Don Rickles. I'm sure this is a great place to go if you live in the neighborhood, but we took a Lyft there on someone else's referral, and it was not worth that at all. The laurel wreath to all the underwhelm though was the bartender. I love a good ribbing (dishing or receiving one), but he was just on the pernicious side of funny. I find some people quite charming in their surliness, and I'm sure that was his aim ... and maybe sometimes he succeeds. The night I was there, however, he was so busy making fun of everything I said or did and being obstinate to any reasonable request that he couldn't get our order straight. Moments later he dropped a stack of glasses on the ground in a show of gleeful comeuppance, but even the well-deserved schadenfreude was not enough to make my visit an enjoyable one or to make me want to return. If hearing old pop culture references called out when your food is ready is your main standard for the quality of a place I suggest it; otherwise maybe check...

We thought we were parking at a different restaurant, but ended up here on accident and because it was such a pain to park we decided to just stay and eat. You order at the bar and we actually weren't too hopeful about our food. But it turned out to be pretty tasty, even though there's a pretty limited menu. All but one of the seating is bar height, so keep that in mind. Parking is very tight and limited. We were a little cold, and asked if we could shut the front door but the bartender wouldn't allow it because she wanted people to know they were open, so existing customers comfort doesn't matter as much as hopefully bringing in other customers. It was pretty empty when we were there. Atmosphere was not the best, but like I said, if you find yourself here the food was better than...