Small Bar

Better than average bar food. All sandwiches are great.

I was really quite impressed with this place.  I always give my San Diego friends crap for thinking they have the best craft beer scene in the country (Duh.... Portland is pretty hard to beat).  HOWEVER.  This is the place to go to experience a lot of San Diego's tasty brews.  There are plenty of them on tap here.  It would take many visits to try them all.  I like the fact that the beers are listed with all the important info (type, ABV, etc).  The S'mores beer may have been my favorite on this particular visit.  The only teeny tiny issue I had was that I found it difficult to read the board with all the different colors of chalk and different types of handwritting.  I should probably just blame that on my aging eyes.

I'll definitely come back here next time I'm in San Diego in order to chill with friends over a cold brew.

Paul C. initiated a gathering of hungover degenerates to meet here on some day after a night of debauchery - which makes me happy he's back on Facebook (Paul).  It was just he and I at first, almost literally.  There were two guys sitting at the bar and possibly another person, then the two bartenders and the food wench (sorry, she's not a wench, I just mean Small Bar is the kind of place pirates would come to eat and there would be food wenches).  The girl who takes the food orders is very pleasant!

Annnyywaaayyyy, Paul and I took some time to sit in awkward silence then decided to order.  Shortly soon thereafter the others came and it was time to seriously kill that hangover by having hair of the dog, Clifford style (big red dog).

Guess what they did.  Oh yes they didddddd it.

I wish I could remember the bartenderess's name but she was a blonde on the shorter side of height.  What did she do?  She made me The Alaskan Polar Bear Heater!  What is that?! Come on, brush up on your 1960s pop culture.

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That's what she made me!  It was decent and probably would take a few stabs to perfect the mixture of the flavors, but it wasn't absolutely dreadful like the i

A bar where business is slow enough and the bartenders are approachable enough to make me that drink is my kind of place.

You've got your breakfast items, you've got your lunch items, you've got what's been touted as one of the best Blood Mary's in San Diego (don't drink them, hate tomatoes, don't know), you've got your relatively reasonable prices and what else?  One more important detail... the beer!  Huh-looooo the beer, if you drink beer, is off the hook.  I mean, come on, under the wing of the Hamilton's folks?  

They sure know what they're doing.