Mort’s Martini and Cigar Bar — Restaurant in Wichita

The atmosphere was pretty good, with the exception of every teenager with a loud exhaust and a short phallus advertising their idiocy on the adjacent street, ear splittingly advertising. The bar itself kinda has the vibe that you'd expect to see a couple Mafia Don's having a couple drinks and discussing who would get the next irrefusable offer.

The cigars were overpriced, even for a pub type venue. I paid a little over twice what I am accustomed to paying at other brick and mortars, and about four times the per stick price of a box from an online retailer would be. Overall they had a medium selection to choose from, of which there were no Quorum or Ghurka sticks, so someone has shown a fair amount of proficiency in choosing decent cigars to sell.

The staff was friendly, but not attentive. Any time I wanted another drink, I had to walk into the bar and announce myself to get any service. This is just inexcusable. It may have been a skin color issue because the person who kept yelling "I knowed you ain't jus axed me dat!" seemed to get much more attention and service. The service was nearly enough to influence my decision to not darken their doorstep again, but there's another issue that drove the final nail in the coffin:

Learn how to make a decent Old Fashioned. Please. For the love of all which is holy and unholy alike, do away with that bastardized concoction that tastes like whisky flavored syrup. The one I received was more simple syrup and ice than whisky and bitters. It was sickeningly sweet. Instead of an orange twist expressed over the top of the cocktail, the bar tender just ripped the skin (pith and all) off an orange wedge and threw it on top of the mound of ice cubes that looked like someone waved a whiskey advertisement somewhere near it. The cocktail didn't qualify as an old fashioned, and barely qualified as safe for human consumption. An old fashioned should be spirit forward with just enough sugar to compliment the vanilla from the oaking of the whisky. Just enough bitters to warm the spicyness of the char remnant of the barrel. When one sips an old fashy, they should be able to think, "That's a fine whisky, with an extra hint of something nice." My thought when sipping Mort's was, "Dear lord that's a lot of sugar for $12." It was absolutely disgusting.

Ergo, I'll find somewhere else for my future cigar and cocktail endeavors...

I hadn't been to this bar since Frank died and I sure miss him a lot. I went thinking that it would be relatively the same as when Frank owned it. It took several very long minutes to get a drink, (if you go to a bar you would expect it would be a nice place to get one, but....:-/) I think because most of the waitresses were waiting on the so-called owners and their friends. Frank would have never had that - he always made sure the experience you had there made you fell like home. Albeit, some of the waitresses were on it, but I think one, I believe Emma was a real drag, never could get a smile out of her. Her husband sat there most of the time with a few other drunks and wanted to keep on reminding people that he was one of the owners - a friend that I was with thought he was just a tag on Emma's coat sleeve - LOL. Frank always kept this bar clean and now you stick to the bar, the outside ceiling leaked because it was raining and I was sure sitting in those metal tables we were going to get electrocuted. The crowd also had changed quite a bit. Most of them were slobbering drunks, along with the owners and their plastic wives/girlfriends and what looked like a bunch of hussies off of Broadway - wouldn't recommend it to anyone. The so-called band even sucked, which is not the way Frank would have had it. Bad experience,...

A fun place to go for a night out. There is live music that you can listen to from a comfortable outdoor space or move inside if you would rather. Cigars are welcome and in fact encouraged. They have a wide variety of martinis available and at least judging from the ones made for us, they are made very well. The music from the band playing while we were there was excellent! A blues/folk style band was entertaining us for the evening. The only draw back was that the food available was very limited and certainly not acceptable for dinner. The waitress we had was acceptably quick and fairly attentive. One we finished our drinks it did not take very long to get our next order in. The location in old town was convenient to restaurants, movies, or several other destinations that we could visit either before or after having fun at Mort's. I encourage you to...