Olivium Restaurant and Lounge

Lounge / Restaurant

This is trying very hard to be a lounge with a New York City vibe and crowd, but it falls way short.

The place is attached to a Day's Inn hotel and is being advertised heavily with Live Jazz and such.  The website looks good so on a slow night I decided to pop in and try it.  

The bar area is a good size - but there are no cozy couches there as depicted on their website - strike one.

The barstools have wheels on them - and if that is not bad enough, the wheels have some sort of super lube on them - so one false move and the stool FLIES out from under your ass and goes shooting across the floor!  WTF?!?!  Who puts super rolling wheels on a damn bar stool.  Strike two and three!   I could  take that stool and go up against any of the skater boyz out there with the speed this thing attains.  This must happen enough because the manager runs right over with the errant stool - clearly he has done this before.

The bar is nice enough- the servers are young girls but seem capable but after the bar stool incident you tend to be VERY careful about moving quickly in your seat - I had visions of the chair rocketing backwards while I did a face plant on the bar - not a good thing when you are drinking.

The appetizers were actually very good - better than what I expected and looking at what other people were eating, it all looked pretty good.

There is a restaurant area off to the left, it didn't have anything going on in there nor did I venture in there.

Due to the proximity to the hotel, the bar seemed to be mostly business guys who were having some drinks and oogling the bartender chickies.  

The music in the background was indeed "loung-ie" and there was a DJ booth but I doubt that this place ever has seen more than 1/6th it's capacity being used - it is off the beaten path for sure.

Parking lot on the side.