Bring Your Own Food at the moment, which is an unexpectedly enjoyable freedom while they finish the kitchen.
It will be interesting to eat here once they are up and running .
Decent bar service, bartender was great when was he at Local 121, and still is, come and he'll tell you the best places to pick up good eats, and come back for drinks.
Great drinks, divided atmosphere so you can do tables or bar. Â NO FOOD- but you can bring in your own, or I've even had pizza delivered! Â The owner is regularly in manning the ship and I like that. Â The other bar tenders are all attentive and helpful. Â A solid selection and a very laid back atmosphere.
Review Source:I'm converted!
My past three visits I've gotten a dirty gin martini and my past three visits my martinis have been excellent. Â The blonde bartender (I wish I knew her name!) is just awesome. Â She's super friendly, makes a kick ass drink and if she helps you, you should tip her well. Â She's also liberal with the tasty bar snacks.
Apparently there's also a back patio now?!? Â It was still a bit cold last time I was there, but rest assured, I now know where I'm spending far too much of my summer.
Lovely bar with nice warm wood table and chairs. Â It's clean and nicely lit, dim but not dark. Â The beer selection isn't huge but there's a nice range of everything - wine, cocktails, beer from different regions. Â The beer was a tad pricey, but the bartender was very friendly and the service was great!
Great place for a date or drinks with friends!
Hubby and I popped in here while waiting for a table at Abyssinia. We chose it over Wickenden Pub because we didn't want the dive bar feel. All in all, it was a good choice. The beer selection was great, and the bartender was super friendly, which I always like. Granted it wasn't too busy when we walked in, but he still greeted us immediately, and offered us samples of the beer we chose. The price was just right at $5/beer, and we were able to carry on a conversation without losing our voices for about an hour. I am not sure that I will go out of my way to go back to The Point Tavern, but I'd likely choose it over Wickenden Pub if I wanted to grab a beer or kill some time while waiting for a table to open up.
Review Source:Really happy to have found this place! A friend had a birthday get-together here on a Saturday night and it was lovely. Refreshingly classy space with what seemed like fairly new furnishings, awesome bartender, and excellent drinks.
The beer selection seemed really solid and I know my friends were pleased with their beers. I was in the mood for a cocktail and ordered one from their martini menu. I forget the name of it, but it had lime and St. Germain. It was strong and tasty- so I ended up ordering another cocktail later, the Honey Pot. I would definitely come here and order cocktails again. It's not like cocktails are their specialty, and I'm actually pretty picky about cocktails (my pet peeve is when they're watered down with mixers). So it was a pleasant surprise that they were so good!
The only downside was that it filled up quickly and became so loud that pretty soon my friends and I were shouting to one another, even though we were sitting only a few feet apart. I lost my voice by the time we left! That hasn't happened since I went to a concert.
The Point Tavern is a low key bar which was practically empty on a Saturday night. Â The interior looks newly finished and really classy. Â The beer menu was decent, prices were cheap and the bartender was friendly, offering us "snacks". Â The best part of this place was the back patio. Â I wouldn't expect to see big partiers here but I think it would be a nice place to catch up with friends over a drink.
Review Source:I prefer going here over the Wick for a few reasons. Â But mostly because of the bartenders. Â My only complaint would be that I was once there when the owner was drinking at the bar and he gave my buddy and I several dirty looks and disapproving comments for ordering Gansetts. Â You have a bar in a college neighborhood, friend, you're gonna get early 20's types ordering Ganny's. Â
Other than the fact that the owner is trying to hard to make it LAMEASS like z-bar, this place is actually a great place to hangout. Â Especially now that they have the patio out back.
I haven't been to this bar since it was Babe's. That's right - not Abe's. Babe's on the Sunny Side, where I started my illustrious drinking career in the 90s.
Back then it was a tiny, dark dive with a pool table and wicked cheap beer. I'm not sure what kind of paradise-on-earth Abe's was, but to call The Point Tavern a dive tells me you haven't been in too many actual dive bars.
The Point Tavern has a nice interior and some good beer on tap. It seems like it's trying to come off as slightly upscale without being snooty or unaffordable. The bartender was nice and the crowd seemed to be mostly in their late 20s and 30s. It wasn't too crowded on a Sunday night, but wasn't empty either.
I'm not on the East Side often, but I'm going to try to put The Point Tavern into my regular rotation.
Overall, I haven't noticed as large of a negative change from Abe's as the other reviewers have noted.
Yes, the music is a little bit more bland, which is sad but seems to be typical of Fox Point bars in general. Â If I wanted to walk to a place with good music, Abe's wasn't my destination before, and the Point hasn't changed that.
The new cocktail menu is very boring, but I have had no trouble ordering cocktails off the old menu (Flirtini mmmm!)... although perhaps I've just gotten lucky and have been served only by bartenders from "before". Â
The beers on draft have gotten more thumbs up from my beer-drinking friends than they used to.
So, goes from a 5- to a 4- star.. but if I do have some negative experiences with the new bartenders, it may go down more.
So, I was an extremely loyal patron of this bar when it was Abe's. It was, in many respects, the perfect bar.
Since it's been taken over and re-named, it's disappointed me repeatedly. The cocktail menu, which was once lengthy, witty and original, is now short, bland and uninteresting. (I can get an espresso martini at Viva if I'm really craving it.) No more house-infused liquors, no more United BBQ, and the prices are too high. (A $9 martini was justifiable when Abe's was the only place in the world I could get one like it. RIP, Franz Kafka Fishbowl.)
The clientele, which had trended towards the mid-twenties crowd, is now significantly older. The music is louder and the lights on the inside are much brighter (not to mention the tacky Christmas lights that have been installed.) Â
Some of the bartenders from Abe's are still there, but the newer staff is rushed and surly.
In short, save for the interior design, which is still (mostly) classy, this place is tragically becoming just another Fox Point dive bar. I'll be at WickPub.
So - this is what once was Abe's.
It was sold a a few months ago to one of the owners of the community bar, Round the Corner, around Ives. Â It is "The Point". Â It now has two signs in the windows. Â The lights are brighter. Â The music is louder. Â The music selection was shifted to what I consider 'easy listening'. Â Depending on the night I've been - some new bartenders (a one-time experience, but worth mentioning: new bartenders that say "Got it!" to a wine and beer and then 15 minutes later you go back and they realize they forgot to act on your order). Â
No more 20% off United (former owner of Abe's still does own that) BUT - they do have food from Duck and Bunny next door! Â
That is the one addition that I'm really okay with.
Surprisingly, much of the same crowd. Â But also a lot of 'fresh faces'. Â Fresh as in they should have been carded. Â And shots all around at the table next to us.
I still like what used to be Abe's. Â But I miss the dim lights, the softer music you could have a conversation over. Â I miss it feeling like a place you could relax and spend quality time with good and random people, instead of a place you crawled through that screams of a bar on Pine Street.
Time will tell - but I'm crossing my fingers!
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