Yaquis on Cherokee — Restaurant in St. Louis

Awful service all around. Never got our waitress/ one of two bartenders to come to our table to take our order. The place wasn't even busy, there were about 10 people in the entire seating area on a weeknight... Once I finally stood up to go order at the bar, the other (seemed newer?) bar tender reluctantly comes to me and asks if she can take my order. I know bar tenders have to learn somewhere, but this poor girl was uninterested, and didn't understand what my two drink orders were. I pointed them both out to her three times on the menu. She wrote them down and took 20 minutes to open a bottle of Cava and to mush basically frozen fruit into a tiny little glass and call that a cocktail. I saw her pouring the Cava and it's as if she didn't know that the bubbles would down as she then poured another small amount into the glass and man, that was not a $9 drink. I have never had a bar tender not know what they were doing. So, a terribly made cocktail, and didn't know that I would be paying over $20 for such service. We even wanted to order a pizza, since we were waiting for such a long time, but if the drinks had taken this long, and were overwhelmingly terrible, we simply drank whatever we were given, paid, and left. Girl, you...

We were just looking for someplace to stop and not drop a bucketload on dinner, so we were headed down this neighborhood for a walk and found Yaquis.

A family of 6, ranging from 9 to 40, we were a little concerned that it looked like a typical bar but carried on. The decor is actually really cool and we ended up getting the Yaqui Platter, a pizza (half greek, half chicken bbq), and two sangria for the parents.

The platter was shared by two and was presented very nicely, the two eating it had nothing but good to say about the prosciutto, cheeses, and small nuts and berries. Not my type of fare though.

The pizza (shared by four) was fantastic, they cook it in a visible wood fire stove and it was done with care. The crust was toasted magnificently and the white sauce was divine. The toppings were not obscene and overdone but just right for the taste. I would definitely go back if...

In the past, I have loved this neighborhood hot spot for its great pizza and awesome live entertainment- but recently I had an experience that left a bad taste in my mouth. I forgot my ID at home and was asked to go get it in order to get inside - OK no big deal, bars have laws for being admitted inside. I drove back home to get my card and came back ready for delicious pizza - instead I was greeted with " oh and I need to see your vax card" ( of course I made a face because I did not expect that, at least they could have mentioned it was a requirement when I DROVE HOME for my ID) it was what was said next that I found despicable... "sorry, I have to ask for proof of vax" ( no...no you don't, there is no law saying you must do this and inconvenience and/or outright discriminate against customers) you CHOOSE to invoke facistic policies- stop...