Trailer Park After Dark — Restaurant in San Diego

You have to go for the kitchy atmosphere. Appetizer menu is slightly small. No small bites plates offered.

Atmosphere: Walk past the pink flamingos, and the man in overalls, into a basement speakeasy, into your childhood. Country music softly playing in the background, and overalls everywhere. Complete with teardrop trailers, Christmas lights, camo chairs; this place is full of detail and selfie potential. The barstools are made of shopping carts, and there are tacky lawn chair pads everywhere. Your napkins and condiments are brought in a tackle box, and a shoe is used as your table marker. The bar and restaurant areas are super clean, as are the "restroms" the wall so kindly directs you too. Milk crates serve as the lampshades above the bar. There is a room with an old school projector TV for playing Super Mario on Super Nintendo, and Giant Jenga to play on your AstroTurf porch in front of one of the trailers. The living room trailer is complete with the China Cabinet and minutes deer on the wall. Not sure if it was irony that WWE was on, or if they have a specific trailer channel, but the entire atmosphere made this my favorite spot on our adventures through Gaslamp.

Drinks: There is 12 beers or so on tap, some local, some not. There is a specific cocktail menu that definitely serves to impress, including a Trump one, complete with cotton candy toupee. As this trip was a beer based adventure, I cannot provide a more adaquate review on their signature cocktails.

Food: This is where the star was lost. There were no menus available in the bar area, and we had to request an appetizer menu from the bartender. We ordered wings, which ended up being forgotten somewhere between the bartender, cooks, and POS. Beers were finished before the wings arrived, and after requesting the status of our order. They were ordinary wet wings, and the blue cheese was of ordinary structure. It wasn't amazingly impressive.

Long story short: Start here when they open at 5, after you've had some small bites elsewhere. Hang out for a few hours with friends enjoying the country music and games, then continue on your adventures...

The hassle of getting a reservation was probably the worst part. We called numerous times and contacted the email given to make a reservation- the day prior. The day of, we just about gave up trying to contact them BUT finally received a call back. The reservation was made though, and of course we ended up going because we had a party of 10 and not many restaurants are ok with having big parties more than 6.

They took our temperatures before we entered (if anyone wanted to know that).

Our waitress was friendly and attentive and I'm assuming she was training someone because there was always 2 of them coming to check on us and they did an amazing job keeping our small tables cleared (by the way, we started off with 2 tiny tables for 10 people.) I made a comment saying, "are these the only tables we're going to have?" They said "yes" at first, but when everyone finally stated getting their orders, they offered another table 😐.

The food matched the theme of the restaurant (see menu), it was pretty retro. The setting, atmosphere, and vibe was CHILL.

Drinks (alcoholic) were pretty damn good. I, myself tried 4 different drinks plus a jello shot. The "tramp stamp" is the strongest drink out of all of them!

I mean, overall it was a pretty decent place. Just make sure if you are interested in reserving a trailer because you have a big group, know that you have to order a minimum (depending on the trailer. Ours had to be $300 minimum [total order] but our bill ended up being $400 anyways for 10 people.

FYI: they will not split your bill. You gotta work it out amongst yourselves if you were all planning to...

Went for the first time, our bartender was nice and gave us our drinks quick. We ordered a food item and was nowhere to be seen. I didn’t know if the item was going to be delivered to us right there at the bar or if we had to go pick it up somewhere. Our bartender left for lunch and still had no food for 15-20 min.

I decided to ask another male bartender if when we order food items do we pick it up or they give it to us. He just proceeded to say “I don’t know, I wasn’t your bartender” and left. I told him I do not know where my bartender is to hopefully get some guidance and was just instructed to “you should look for them then” I proceeded to ask him if he just happens to know what’s usually the procedure when we order food, because again, it was my first time there. He ended up cutting me off and telling me once again he doesn’t know, he didn’t take payment from me or my order. Obviously I got frustrated and told him “I know, I just want to know…” got cut off again and finally he decided to explain that it depends on each bartender and that’s why he doesn’t know.

That is something he could’ve explained since the very beginning I asked. I have worked customer service before and the way he handled things were not the right way.

My bartender ended up coming back and she was super nice about it, when to check up and unfortunately people at the kitchen basically said they are done and won’t make any more orders. I decided to get a refund, she gave me free jello shots and then I decided to leave.

Although I only went once, I wouldn’t go back again due to the other guy bartender...