The Oak Door

Been gone from the area for 11 years, and stopped by last week.
Boy was I surprised!  The owner recognized me, called me by name, smiled, and welcomed me with open arms.  Friendly place, and I got to talking with her, between customers.  In this tough economy I think it is terrific that the Oak Door remains open.  Most of the bar business is focused on first street (no parking), and the prices are double what Oak Door is.  And they are franchises.
I was the DD so I just ordered Diet Coke.  Never, ever have I been frowned upon for not drinking alcohol.  Water and diet sodas are provided by the establishment with a smile.  EVEN before I moved away, this has always been their policy!
If you are expecting to be catered to by unlimited amount of waiters and waitress's of the big chains, this is not the place for you.  This is a down home, been in business forever, lot of locals meet up and discuss their week kinda place.  If you want frou-frou drinks, constant attention, expensive drinks, go to the big chains.  All they want is your $$$.  The Oak Door wants your personality, your friendliness, and overall enjoyment of a small town bar.

This is horrible bar! The reason... The bitch owner/bar tender! As I am sure you have read in about 90% of the reviews, this feeling is mutual. This lady has the most haggard, evil, ugly personality of any human I have ever met. I live in walking distance of this bar and have tried it several times over the past 12 years.  Each time I have been in the story is the same.  The owner/bar tender refuses to make eye contact and or serve me a drink. It is incredible! The only good thing about this place is karaoke, however made less enjoyable due to the lack of any kind of customer service. I would like to give two pieces of advice:
1. Never, ever, ever, ever go to this piece of crap place.
2. For the owner/bar tender: You are are miserable! GET A CLUE! Listen to the words and feed back you are getting ( even from your regulars). Retire, move to Florida, close the bar, or let your niece run it! Your bar sucks! The only thing more miserable then your shitty bar... Is you!

I went to the Oak Door to celebrate my sister's 21st birthday.  It was a fairly small place, maybe about as big as a double garage, and got crowded pretty quickly as we weren't the only ones there celebrating a birthday that Saturday.  They did have a small dance floor and a karaoke bar that was manned by a DJ, which was the biggest reason we had as much fun as we did.

Their selection of beer, both on tap and in bottles, is rather limited, and they ran out by about 10:30/11PM of what a few of my friends and I were interested in drinking.  They do have a large selection of harder alcohol, thought.