The Tap Room

We found ourselves in Santa Maria, which appeared to be underwhelming but stayed at the Historic Santa Maria Inn which was lovely.  We took a nap then woke around 7 pm deciding we needed some food and a drink.  We wandered into the pub because it was closest to our room.

Sat down at the bar, the bartender immediately greeted us.  I was pleasantly surprised to find Sazerac's on the menu.  We had the fish and chips, one between tow of us and it was TONS of food.  But the bartender said the entrees are HUGE but the apps are not.  So consider yourself warned.  :)

We stayed way too long, but we had lots of fun and met lots of nice people.

This place was cool and I'm glad we ventured down there from our room at the hotel. Old English style pub with cool, wood decor and lighting. There was a Sinatra type singer there that night and we enjoyed his singing from our bench booth while we drank Tap It IPAs from SLO brewing. We thought we would turn in early for the night and be ready for wine tasting in the morning. But what really happened is we got lubed up for our wine tasting with beer all night. Definitely a cool find and added to the trip.

I am torn about the Tap room.  It is very cool looking inside and has everything a bar should have.  The drinks were pretty good, but nothing out of the ordinary.  We were there on a Saturday and Sunday night and they were very diferent.  Saturday there was a live band that was just meh, not our style.  Sunday we were the only people there and that was kind of boring.  The music they play in the bar is dreadful!!  We asked both nights for the bar tender to turn it to anything other than what was playing.  It's an Englis style pub that plays Cajun style music when there is no band.  Luckily I found the juke box so I was forced to spend my own money to hear some good music.  Over all it wasn't terrible, but nothing to get overly excited about.  If your staying at the hotel then you can't beat the location.