Starlite Lounge

This was a pleasant surprise; a nice little locals bar where folks can smoke and non-smokers can still breathe the air.  I believe they have an air-filtering system. There are a couple of pool tables, video games, poker machines, and a dart board for the bored. The bar is actually very nice. The only odd thing is the glassware. I felt like I'd gone back in time to 1985; the small pilsner glass instead of the pint, small stemmed rocks and highball glasses instead of a Gibraltar glass, etc. On second thought, that's another thing that gives this little hole in the wall its charm. The music on Friday nights with Tanya and Bert is exceptional.

I generally confine my serious drinking to the hallowed halls of an American Legion Post but I had heard a lot about the Starlite Lounge and thought I'd give it try. I'm glad that I did. It's a perfect dive bar for the serious to professional drinker, though most drink bottled beer served in chilled plastic buckets.

The place is really big, has a couple of pool tables, some high cocktail tables with bar type seating stools and one of the largest bars, by seating capacity, to be found. It appears to be a well run operation, lots of cheap décor such as some plastic dolphins on wall, a football poster or two and some out of date Christmas ornament lights encircling the interior that I suppose are meant to be representative of starlight; in this case "starlite."

The patrons are mostly neighborhood folks, all very friendly and covering the entire age spectrum but with the majority being 40-50ish.

All in all, it's one of the best bars around in which to do serious drinking or maybe in which to get flat out drunk.