Tin 'n' Lint

Would you like to go to a bar where the bartender is more keen on playing pool with his mates than serve a group of 20 who were there to spend a minimum of $300 ?

If you do, this is where you should go to...

We were a bunch of 20 colleagues from work who went on a pub crawl in Saratoga Springs. Our first bar was sadly this one. Our bus dropped us all and we entered the empty bar where the bartender was playing pool with his mate.

My boss goes to him and says that we are all together and he will pay for everyone on his car to which the bartender points a finger to a sign "No credit. Cash only" as if to say buzz off..

My boss offers $300 in cash so everyone can get their drinks to which the bartender says " You have to pay cash after I serve each drink. I cant calculate all the glasses together."

And while we take money off our wallets to pay for the two drinks in exact change, the bartender, Mr. Hole, leaves the bar and is seen busy playing his game of pool.

If you want to be served by a man who does not care to serve you, here is where you should go. No wonder there were only a couple sitting in the bar when all the others were buzzing with people. Probably that couple wanted some quite time to themselves where nobody including the bar tender bothers them...

This bar and its bartender is a joke.

Why be in business when you dont want to do business?

The bartender, Mr. Hole, lost a good $500 which he would have made had he bothered to serve us.

The T and L has been around forever, serving pitchers of beer to the college kids. It's a dark, subterranean dive bar with all of the typical atmosphere that any college town bar offers. There are always some pretty odd geriatric customers hanging around trying to look youthful and attractive to the college girls. They really should be home with the wife or even safely tucked in at the nearby retirement center. One guy has been perched on the same stool for close to forty years and is a hit at all of the reunions when the middle aged alums stumble in and recognize him. In fact, he's even in a lot of the reunion pictures.

Nothing says Dive Bar in town more than the T and L. If you are in Saratoga, take a look but don't have any great expectations for upscale craft cocktails or a sophisticated clientele. Order up a pitcher of beer and turn up your hearing aid if you are over 25. It is loud in here. Check out the photos, the names carved in the tables and the crazy college students, remembering you were one once. Take a little trip down memory lane. It's a real scene. And it has outlasted many other more high end places in downtown Saratoga.

A fun low-key bar to grab a pitcher with friends. Really busy late-night in the summer when Saratogians return from college. You can play beer pong, flip cup, etc. here, so it definitely caters to the college-aged individual. However, they also get an older crowd in the early evenings and weekdays. Not a place to grab a fancy drink, but perfect for a beer. Check out the claim-to-fame plaque near one if the booths!