Aj's Bar

AJ's is located at the southern edge of the Pendleton Heights Historic District.   When the Pendleton Heights crew (comprised of young professionals and artists) converges upon it, it turns into Fun Central.  We love this dive, it's owners, it's employees, and it's colorful collection of regulars.  AJ & crew are good people.  It's a small, no-frills joint with some excellent top-shelf choices.   I've never seen a cockroach in the house, nor have I had the odd privilege of spotting a shopping cart full of someone's personal effects.  The former certainly wouldn't please me, but I'd probably be strangely charmed by the shopping cart!

A friend of mine had told me about this place.  "I was sitting in there drinking a beer and suddenly the door opened up and some guy came in pushing a shopping cart loaded up with TVs," he told me.  "Then, a few minutes later, a huge cockroach scampered across the bar."

I had to see what he was talking about.    I found myself in an old, worn down neighborhood bar that somehow still felt very comfortable.   Most of the patrons were quite a bit older than me.

I never saw a roach, however there WAS  grocery cart in the corner full of someone's belongings.    And, I have to admit, I've been here a few times and someone has brought in a grocery cart full of something just about every time.