Pine Valley Bar & Grill

Hit or miss type place with hit or miss service.

This place is dead to me.  If there are only a few people in the bar you should be OK, but if they are jammin' and busy expect to be treated like dirt.  You could spend $1000's of dollars here and be known by name, but when the owner is stressed out and overwhelmed you can expect the staff to be as well.  The estrogen level goes up and all of the women synchronize being pissed off.  You get your food thrown at you and asking for another beer is akin to asking for a mountain to be moved.

Be sure to "reserve" your table ahead of time for a big event!  It's a fancy service that Pine Valley provides.  If you don't reserve and you "accidentally" sit in a reserved area, the owner will come out and tell you to get the hell out of the reserved table after you have been sitting there for a half hour.  Then the party that reserved the table starts trickling in 2 hours after their appointed time.  Then you find out that they are the owner's friends and even though you patronize her bar, you are meaningless in the long run.  

Be sure to come in on "karaoke" night where you can watch that little guy lip-sync all of the songs.  

Bottom line is that membership has its privileges and if you aren't a "member" then you might as well stay at home. Too much estrogen too.

I'm not a wine guy, I like it... But I don't know it.  I just drink what's handed to me.  I'd go into my spiel about how I pick a wine but that's not what I'm hear to talk about. I'm here to talk about Clever Bottle, a nice little spot.  Because it's small though, I'm kind of afraid of it being packed to the rafters....

So I won't tell you about how friendly the bartender (and I think owner is).
I won't mention how I came in wearing a John Woo t-shirt and was treated with respect.
I won't even touch on how tasty the special beverages were, nor will I say how they were reasonably priced.
I'm not saying anything about how inviting and clean it is in here.
Nope, not saying anything about that stuff at all.