Gaspar's Patio Bar & Grill

Marginal experience. My friend and I, like others, went when it was not busy and received service from the Bar only after the 3 gals were done chatting. When we initially arrived,  a mid - shift bartender was on but about to come off, but served us for about 30 minutes and she was fantastic.  When the evening shift showed up the service stopped. They either talked to themselves, or the regulars, or were completely absent from the bar in excess of 30 minutes. Food was typical fried bar fare; nothing to write home about.  Patio experience was much better with a dedicated waitress on a second visit.  

I can't knock the bar too much for bartenders catering more to regulars- I've been on both sides of that before and I know how important repeat business is.  However, in order to gain NEW repeat customers, you really need to treat them like regulars, or at the very least, like normal paying customers.  Especially if it's not busy (which it wasn't), and also if they're sitting right at the bar, clearly watching you not be busy while ignoring them to chat it up with each other.  We will return again, as it's a fun place to hang out and grab some drinks and bar food, but we'll probably stay away from the bar area and opt for the patio, in case we ever want more than one drink or a refill on a water.

When I was there the parking lot was packed. We met a lot of fun people, sang karaoke, ate countess wings, and drowned back a few pitchers of good beer. There was a live band in the outside patio area so you could go out and have a smoke and mix-up your music selection. Great neighborhood bar...definitely would get hammered there again!

When I first walked i the atmosphere seemed pretty cool, it took the bartender about ten minutes to greet my friend and I. The place wasn't busy, they were just busy talking (there were 3 behind the bar). When she finally came over I asked for a beer list and my friend ordered a double captain and coke. They had a very good choice of beers. When she came back I was ready to order, but she just placed my friends drink down and went back to talking. After another ten minutes she came over and asked if I was ready, I said yes and ordered. When she brought me my beer I realized the glass was dirty, I asked the Barack if he could get her so I could get a clean glass with a new beer. This second glass was also dirty. I was disgusted and won't be returning.