Shark City

So much potential...the place is real big and has some great entertainment. I'm a band wife and if this place had the service to back up their venue it'd be a fantastic spot for bands. The stage is huge for a bar and they have a great lighting system and plenty of space for everyone and a big dance floor. My husband's band played and the sound guy had the instruments jacked up so loud that you could barely hear the vocals which ruins the experience. Considering what they invest in their equipment and space to accommodate bands, crappy sound is unforgivable. Maybe he was just having an off night but they played a 3 hour set which is plenty of time to fine tune the sound before it's over. They also have bean bags, pool tables, a large bar, space outside and even OTB. It's a really great setup. HOWEVER, the service was awful. The area where people were sitting watching the band was not crowded by any means and the one waitress on duty was seen taking orders quite often. However, the taking of the orders is as far as she wanted to go apparently. I ordered some fries to munch on, after getting a super weak Jameson and Coke at the bar when I arrived, and I'm not even exaggerating when I say I had to find her at least  FORTY FIVE minutes later to ask about my fries - just fries. When I did she was completely unfazed and said they'd be out soon without even looking at me, as if this was standard operating procedure. She had also walked past me a million times prior without letting me know the status or apologizing for the ridiculous delay. I ordered regular fries and when she finally handed me a basket of waffle fries she apologized for being out of tater tots. Um...okay. I didn't order either of those. The fries were really good at least and I wasn't about to correct the order lest I starve to death waiting again. She never came back to me once to take my order for anything else in the next couple hours that  I was sitting there, or to take my empty fry basket away. As I said, for a bar at 11:00 the place was not crowded at all. It was completely ridiculous. They make money selling drinks to the people sitting there. Hello! The best is yet to come though...at the end of the band's set my husband asked me to get him a vodka on the rocks while he was packing up. I ordered a Kettle One on the rocks and when I brought it over to him he said it was water. He's a straight vodka drinker and I'm not so I figured he just meant they watered it down. He said "No. It's outright WATER. Taste it." I did and - IT WAS OUTRIGHT WATER. I watched her pour this drink into the glass from a near-full bottle of Kettle One at the bar! I brought it back and told her it was water. She tasted it and looked at me like a deer in headlights. She said she was stunned and had no idea what to even say. She poured some more from the bottle and drank it - WATER. She apologized and asked if I wanted to speak to the owner because someone apparently switched the vodka out for water. Her reaction almost felt like bad acting but I won't make any straight up accusations. I got another kind of vodka and told her to just get rid of that bottle. She did not immediately dump the bottle either. I was stunned. She was the only bartender I ever saw on duty and the bottle was not brand new, so were people being served water instead of premium vodka in their mixed drinks later in the night without knowing? How did that bottle just sit there and get used without anyone knowing it was water? Completely insane. Between the hour long fries, the super weak drink when I got there, and the $10.50 WATER scam we got at the end of the night - this place needs a serious education in how to service its customers. And after all that, no one even offered to comp anything or seemed to care much about the awful service. If they get good hospitality down, this will be a fantastic spot to hang out and see bands or play games with friends. As it is, it's a place to sit and starve and be cheated. Not cool.

THE WORST SERVICE EVER
We visited Shark City on Friday, May 10th to hear a band.  We couldn't get waited on.

After about 15 minutes, Pam finally came over and took our drink order and collected our credit card. Nothing happened.  So we went and found her and reminded her about our drinks.  Then we found her again to re-remind her of our forgotten drinks.  Asked another waitress about it and she escorted Pam back to our table with drinks and a menu.  We placed an order and waited about half an hour for our food.  We never saw her again. She never came back to take our plates, or check on drinks.  We went to find her when we were ready to leave and she said she would be right over.  We waited 15 minutes and then went and found her again and finally we got our bill and credit card back.  I've never thought it was ok to leave no tip.  Never EVER done that before.  Sorry Pam, you were a first.  Worst service we've ever had in any city, in any country.

As others have written, the bar is very big with pool tables and bag games and a huge stage which is great for live bands, with a nice big dance floor.  The food was typical bar food, ok burger, tater tots with little taste, wrap was ok, nothing special.  

It seems like it would be a great place to watch live bands, but we won't be going back.

My review of Shark City is from the view point of a musician that preforms at  the club. The stage is awesome, they have a great sound man and the light show is  awesome. I enjoy playing here. the staff is great to us when we preform here the owner takes care of us, what more can I ask for. this is why i give them 5 stars. they have a great place to put on rock shows so stop in and support local music!! check out my site <a href="/redir?url=http%3A%2F%2FCatalanoband.com&s=8a2b20b9af13deca1e8da00118dc3f19496a70a3d602e3ed4bbd265377fb35c3" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://Catalanoband.com</a> for when i will be preforming there again this summer!!
The food is good. A bit better than normal bar food. the drinks are reasonably priced and they have a lot of big screen TVs, Pool tables and also OTB if you feel like betting on some horses. They also have a cool outdoor patio and bar to hang out in.