Tony R.
Yelp
I am very disappointed in my last visit at Admiral Pub. Which is really sad, I have been going to this bar for 8 years regularly. It has been a go to for my wife and I, on the rare occasions we have an opportunity to go on a date. Spent many nights playing pool, singing karaoke, throwing darts, making new friends, listening to live music, watching sports, eating bar food, back when life was normal. Sad to say that tradition may have come to an end over pretentious bar tenders and a shitty ambiance.
We were out for a quick date night, celebrating our 5 year anniversary. 90% of our visit was a plesent evening (minus the over priced well liquor). Nonetheless, as we were leaving, we stood up to walk to the door (from the back patio), taking the last sip of our beer after paying our tab, and got called out by another customer. She rudely yells, "if you're going to be standing there in the tent could you put your masks on!?" as she sits the same distance away from me, as I am from her, while she's comfortably yelling mask free.. And I'm not trying to play the victim card, my wife and I had words to return.
Then triggered by our response she hops up, and yells," that's it, you guys are never coming back here again!" As if she owns the place (maybe she does). She races us inside to tell on us like a 3rd grader.
As we are near the counter heading out the front door, we hear her tattle telling that we refused to wear a mask, as if we hadn't worn one the entire night. Which each and every time I got up to order a drink or use the restroom, I wore my mask in compliance, as did my wife.
Where we got really irritated was when we had something to say to the woman as she was telling on us, the bar tender she was talking to, essentially condemned us as well. Telling us "oh no let's not do that!" As if we don't have the freedom to speak, instead of allowing us to give a response to defend ourselves.
Anyways, we left right then and there.
The context that is missing is that the entire time from 7 - 9pm, my wife and I had to sit in the back corner, while listening to volger jokes about sex and masterbation and people running around the tent, mask free.. which we didn't necessarily mind... up until we were the ones being condemned for standing while taking the last sip of the warm foam in the bottom of our pint glasses headed towards the exit. Earlier in the evening also witnessed a bar tender innocently and playfully hugging one of the customers around the neck while the customer was sitting at his table, mask free. This bar tender was obviously not practicing social distancing. Multiple times that I went back inside to order another drink, I saw one of the bar tenders mask free, quickly fidgeting to put it on as a customer approached the counter.
Again I had no issues with any of these incidents, until we became the only suspects of non compliance to covid-19 regulations, when we were the most compliment out of any guest there, including the employees, the entire night.
A bit hypocritical if you ask me.
So sad that a tradition is ruined, and our celebratory anniversary is tainted with a bad memory it'll make a great story for telling friends, relatives and new people we meet, where NOT to go
P.s. Since new ownership has taken place, this place is not the same.
