We're locals and we don't leave bad reviews for nothing. Not to mince words, tonight was the worst restaurant experience we've had in Santa Barbara. The bartender was so young and had more ego than skill. When my wife said her lemon drop was salty, he begrudgingly made her another -and he was rude when she said it was still salty. He refused to taste it and made a face as if wanting a decent $17 drink was too much to ask. She in fact had to enlist a stranger at the bar who knew the bartender and he tried the drink and nearly gagged. Only then was he receptive. He made two more drinks the same way all the while insisting that his lemon drop was loved by all. With the help of the regular who came to my wife's rescue did he eventually taste the drink and then he and Warren (owner and not very engaged with customers) finally figured out that the the sweet and sour mix was accidentally made with SALT water instead of SWEET and sour. They laughed, and the bartender who formerly said it was "his bar" (he's 22 years old) suddenly blamed everyone else for making that mixture with salt instead of sugar. No apology! We were halfway through a poor dinner of very over dressed and VERY wilted salad and my wife, twenty minutes without a drink and pleading for a simple vodka which they would not give her even after the discovery of SALT instead of sugar in the drink -duh... are you a bar? But still no apology. Instead we heard the GenZ blame: 'someone must have mixed it with salt... I've been out for three days.' After all that, they said they would comp the drink, but didn't -full charge on the bill -I didn't bother to argue. Figure this true review will cost them more. I understand mistakes - hell my wife was a waitress when she was young and no one has more empathy, but no offer of apology for the patron -is not okay. And this is a cocktail bar. It's all cocktails, there were only two wines by the glass (at nearly $20 a pop) and the flatbread was no better than frozen and well darn.... it's just sad to see the death of a long time local establishment. Sorry to see it go, but Warren Butler has run it down. It used to be a cool local bar with lunch specials and a chalkboard of local wines by the glass. Now the owner shirks the patrons who identified (with pain) the egregious mistake of salt instead of sugar and then needs to witness the scolding the bar tender and listen to that young man making excuses all without a word to the client to the client....makes three strikes. Sadly guilty of the most elementary of mistakes in the service industry... bad service, bad food, bad management and (4) no apologies - yeah, sorry, you're out. Even a long time name like Chase won't survive that. So long Chase.