Buddha Beer Bar

NEVER NEVER NEVER AGAIN.

I can't imagine getting worse service than I got at this place. I came with three of my friends and we sat at a table. Our waitress would walk up every now and then, mutter "you know what you want?" and walk away around the time we were done speaking - we were never really sure if she processed what we'd said. At one point, she asked one of my friends if he wanted another beer - everything he'd ordered till that point, they'd been out of - so he was reading the beer list on the wall, and she just walked away. I guess she got tired of waiting. She actually laughed at me when I ordered the mozzarella sticks. LAUGHED.

Some more of my friends showed up a little later, and there wasn't enough room at our table, so we wanted to move to the communal table next to us. There was a beer sitting at the end that had been there for a good ten minutes without anyone claiming it, so we assumed that it was abandoned, or if it wasn't, the single solitary beer wouldn't mind moving to a smaller table, and moved it to an empty table to so we could all move over. We weren't at the new table for 45 seconds, when a waitress - not our waitress, but someone she had apparently tattled to, because she was right behind this new waitress - came over and literally started scolding us for "moving someone else's stuff." We told her we didn't know where the people were that were drinking it and assumed they'd left, and she started wagging her fingers in our faces, saying they had gone out for a cigarette and "you can't just move people's things, that's not allowed, if you want to sit somewhere and someone leaves a beer there, it means they're saving the seat" blahblahblah. Every time we tried to say "okay, well, we'll just move down one" she would launch into her sermon again until I finally said "just bring me the check." My friends hadn't been putting up with the first pageant winner of a waitress quite as long as I had, and had a lot more patience, so they said "can we just move these other tables together?" Reverend Waitress said that was fine and delivered one more rendition of her "Beer Movers Go To Hell" tirade, while our original charmer announced, "you want to move those tables? That would be IMPOSSIBLE." I was so done at that point, we got the check and wrote a huge THANK YOU!!! across the tip line. I've never been treated so condescendingly at a place where I'm expected to pay (too much) for a service. It was more like a trip to the DMV than to the bar.

A chalkboard on the wall said, "Almost everything on the menu is made fresh, none of that frozen crap here." Almost. That's great. I guess you get to play Russian roulette to see what the frozen thing on their oh-so-fresh menu is. I played and I think I won - it's the mozzarella sticks. Trust me.

I'm a WaHi local, and I can tell you: if I live here for the rest of my life, I'll make my own bar in the mixers aisle of a grocery store before I go back to this place. Save yourself the shame and demoralization and do the same.

Holy shit. I can't stop going here. I stumbled upon this place when a friend had an interview across the street and decided to go in to wait and have a beer. The beer selection is AMAZING, the food is delicious as well!

I have had the brussels sprouts everytime I go, the chicken parm which was very tasty, the chicken pesto which I loved (the bread is phenomenal), the Blueberry Wings (I know sounds gross but it's good!).... I've been eating everything on their menu, and just when I  think i'm pretty close to drinking just about every beer on tap, they sell out and refill with something new!

stop in, eat, drink, ask the knowledgeable staff for their beer expertise, they are honest and really hit the nail on the head everytime. I can't remember the last time I chose my own beer... They do it for me... makes my life easier!

I really want to come back and try the blueberry wings.

Cute uptown spot, pretty good service.