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Three strikes and you're out!
My girlfriend likes beer. I like beer. We like good beer. Her favorite is Spaten Optimator. My favorite is Goose Island's Boubon County Stout. We like beer. We go to bars to have tasty beverages from time to time, but we live 50 miles apart.
The most convenient place between us is Rock Bottom Brewery. Oddly though, as luck would have it, I usually wind up going there alone after she gets busy or has to go to work or whatever. Or sometimes, I just have a crappy day at work (near where she lives) and I stop by Rock Bottom on the way home. Or, at least, I used to.
Tonight I went to Walter Payton's Roundhouse in Aurora, IL, but I was parked a mile away and when I got about halfway there, the thought occured to me that they are going to be crowded as hell. Now, I was in a bad mood already from work, so I decided I didn't want to deal with crowds anyway, so I just left and went to Rock Bottom.
Rock Bottom was unusually crowded for a Tuesday, but no matter, I just needed a single seat at the bar and I got one. Then a minute passed. Then two minutes. After five minutes passed, a bartenderess came up and asked if she could get me anything. "Uh.. yeah. I said. What do you have on cask?" She replied, "Nothing." Confounded why a brewpub with two beer engines would have nothing on cask, I said, "Oh." Then I looked up at the chalkboard with their beers on it and, as I was looking, the bartender walked away. I turned back, and she was gone to wait on someone who had just walked up to the bar.
I saw two beers that I really wanted to try on their chalkboard, but last time I was there, I was advised that they were out of both of those and they only had their usual beers on tap.
And the time before that, the bartender was a royal *****. This is the third time I waited over 5 minutes for a beer. This is the second time they had nothing on cask. Last time I was there, I had three beers and the time between an empty glass (or no glass) and a full glass was in excess of 5 minutes every time. And what are the bartenders doing? Washing glasses. Where the **** are their priorities?!!!
Did I mention that last time I was there, the bartender walked by my empty glass, asked me if I wanted another, I said yes, and then she proceeded to walk away from behind the bar and I didn't see her for another few minutes??!!!
Yes, last time I was there, when there were 3 people at the bar and I was waiting in excess of 5 minutes for a beer, I tipped poorly. I mean, wouldn't you? 3 patrons, one bartender, and it takes you 5 minutes to get a damned beer.
I go to about a half dozen bars in the city. Each of them has hotter bartenders. And each of them has friendlier bartenders. And each of them has bartenders that work harder and try to get you a beer in a timely matter. I kid you not, when I was at rock bottom, I pulled my cell phone out to watch the time. 5 minutes is NOT an exaggeration.
Piss poor service. Their beers are mediocre (I'm too pissed off at their service to even THINK about discussing their beers). I go to Goose Island, see three times as many patrons for each bartender and yet they manage to remember you, talk more to you, and get you your beer in a timely manner.
F'in suburban waitresses suck. They think they're supposed to get tipped well for being cute, but 9 times out of ten, they're not even all that cute.
Anyway, sorry for the rant. I've just been burned one time too many by Rock Bottom in Aurora. They suck. On a brighter note though, I would up going next door to Max and Erma's. It's just your typical Bennigan's-style Irish restaurant and they had a Two Brother's Farmhouse Ale on draft and it was FANTASTIC. I'm actually glad I didn't wait around on the crappy service to give me more of the same beer at Rock Bottom. The Farmhouse Ale was great.
My girlfriend likes beer. I like beer. We like good beer. Her favorite is Spaten Optimator. My favorite is Goose Island's Boubon County Stout. We like beer. We go to bars to have tasty beverages from time to time, but we live 50 miles apart.
The most convenient place between us is Rock Bottom Brewery. Oddly though, as luck would have it, I usually wind up going there alone after she gets busy or has to go to work or whatever. Or sometimes, I just have a crappy day at work (near where she lives) and I stop by Rock Bottom on the way home. Or, at least, I used to.
Tonight I went to Walter Payton's Roundhouse in Aurora, IL, but I was parked a mile away and when I got about halfway there, the thought occured to me that they are going to be crowded as hell. Now, I was in a bad mood already from work, so I decided I didn't want to deal with crowds anyway, so I just left and went to Rock Bottom.
Rock Bottom was unusually crowded for a Tuesday, but no matter, I just needed a single seat at the bar and I got one. Then a minute passed. Then two minutes. After five minutes passed, a bartenderess came up and asked if she could get me anything. "Uh.. yeah. I said. What do you have on cask?" She replied, "Nothing." Confounded why a brewpub with two beer engines would have nothing on cask, I said, "Oh." Then I looked up at the chalkboard with their beers on it and, as I was looking, the bartender walked away. I turned back, and she was gone to wait on someone who had just walked up to the bar.
I saw two beers that I really wanted to try on their chalkboard, but last time I was there, I was advised that they were out of both of those and they only had their usual beers on tap.
And the time before that, the bartender was a royal *****. This is the third time I waited over 5 minutes for a beer. This is the second time they had nothing on cask. Last time I was there, I had three beers and the time between an empty glass (or no glass) and a full glass was in excess of 5 minutes every time. And what are the bartenders doing? Washing glasses. Where the **** are their priorities?!!!
Did I mention that last time I was there, the bartender walked by my empty glass, asked me if I wanted another, I said yes, and then she proceeded to walk away from behind the bar and I didn't see her for another few minutes??!!!
Yes, last time I was there, when there were 3 people at the bar and I was waiting in excess of 5 minutes for a beer, I tipped poorly. I mean, wouldn't you? 3 patrons, one bartender, and it takes you 5 minutes to get a damned beer.
I go to about a half dozen bars in the city. Each of them has hotter bartenders. And each of them has friendlier bartenders. And each of them has bartenders that work harder and try to get you a beer in a timely matter. I kid you not, when I was at rock bottom, I pulled my cell phone out to watch the time. 5 minutes is NOT an exaggeration.
Piss poor service. Their beers are mediocre (I'm too pissed off at their service to even THINK about discussing their beers). I go to Goose Island, see three times as many patrons for each bartender and yet they manage to remember you, talk more to you, and get you your beer in a timely manner.
F'in suburban waitresses suck. They think they're supposed to get tipped well for being cute, but 9 times out of ten, they're not even all that cute.
Anyway, sorry for the rant. I've just been burned one time too many by Rock Bottom in Aurora. They suck. On a brighter note though, I would up going next door to Max and Erma's. It's just your typical Bennigan's-style Irish restaurant and they had a Two Brother's Farmhouse Ale on draft and it was FANTASTIC. I'm actually glad I didn't wait around on the crappy service to give me more of the same beer at Rock Bottom. The Farmhouse Ale was great.