The Sandbar

I would certainly agree that if you are simply looking for a bar to hang out and drink, this is not the place for you. It's small, gets crowded quickly, and drink specials are nothing special. HOWEVER, as a karaoke bar (its intention), this place rocks! Went last year for the first time with my group of friends on our annual OC vacation. We had a blast. I should also note: this was our last night of vacation, on a Friday night, and none of us wanted to go out (thanks to some massive hangovers). This was certainly the place to get over that. While not particularly cheap, I really enjoyed the long islands and of course, the great and the terrible karaoke singers (myself being one of the terrible). If you are with a group of friends, you all like karaoke, and you're looking for a damn good time... head on over to the Sandbar!

This place is amazing!!!! Real karaoke on the stage! Great laid back crowd. Karaoke is one Friday and Saturday nights. Wish it was every night. Love this bar!!!!

I used to like this place - despite itself.  Every year for the last 4 years, my beach group and I - anywhere from 20 to 30 of us depending on the year would go to The Sandbar for karaoke while in OC MD.  We're not good at karaoke - but we drink a lot - and easily put $1,000 in the place - before tip - each night each year.  We have a good time - and we constitute more than 1/2 the population of the bar each time.  This year, this past Sunday, we had been there for 2-3 hours - having a good time amusing ourselves.  My friend "Krissi" went to order a round of shots - 10 of them for just the girls of the group - from Bartender #1.  We'll call him "Tall Guy with a Harvard Med shirt who could spell Harvard if you spotted him the -arvard" acknowledged the order but just kinda wandered around for 2 minutes.  I mean this is $55 in shots - easily $10 in tips for 2 minutes of work.  Bartender #2 - We'll call him "short guy with raging SMS" - sees Krissi waiting at the bar and "-arvard"  doing nothing so her asks what she needs.  She responds that she needs 10 shots.  Each of the guys start making the shots at this point - and end up making 20 shots.  I guess SMS and -arvard didn't really they were going for the same shots - when Krissi thought they were helping each other.  They put the 20 shots on the bar.  Krissi tells them she just ordered 10.  They yell at her, swipe her credit card, and charge her $110.  After "Mike", her husband, intervenes they take the shots off the bar and start kicking them out.  Not until Mike contends to call the cops do they give us the shots.  I contend with SMS that they just lost a few hundred dollars worth of business that night and thousands of dollars of business over the next decade over $10 worth of booze.  He contends it was $110 and I laugh at his ignorance.  I then get kicked out.  The bouncer couldn't believe what they did and was shocked when over 20 customers left at once.  I really think at least one of the bartenders owns the place - so I hope they - or the real owners - know how stupid they are.  Blame Krissi as much as you will for ordering twice but the business you lost by upsetting loyal good customers over a misunderstanding is unbelievable.  One of my buddies saw -arvard leave the bathroom without washing his hands.  And the guy who runs the karaoke is kinda creepy, too.