Chris A.
Yelp
If it is late at night and you've breen drinksin' and your sorta wasted, and just need some food to put down with more beer, then you're probably OK here.
Unfortunately my recipe is this... It was 3:00 Monday afternoon. I wanted something to eat, and a 7-up. They do have the 7-up, and their menu has two pages of food that the bartender said is served from 2 other separate restaurants on either side of this building.
I ordered my soda, it was just fine. I ordered the Taco Plate from the shared restaurant down the way. The bartender then rang me up for the taco plate, and spins around the card reader thing, and it is showing billing for taco plate only, no drink. (The drink is billed to the bar)
The taco plate bill naturally has one of those automated places to choose a tip if you are so inclined. Now, I just ordered the food... I haven't even been served yet. It is slow, and the bartender is cool... so I ask him, "Bartender sir, I got your back, I'm happy to hook you up for your fine service, but can you please tell me that if I leave a tip for this food that is somewhere down the street, are you going to get any of that tip, because it's just you and me here, ya know?"
He told me that the business relationship with the Mexican place is that when people in the bar order Mexican food, the tip is shared with bartender in some way. However, if you order the Sushi/Asian stuff... nope.. no tip for bartender on that food.
Anyway, sure I'm not a douche, I tipped for the Mexican food. But what happens is a little later this guy comes running in the front door with a cardboard clam shell 'to-go container' He puts the cardboard in front of me, and I ate my food from some card board.
So, it's a bar, not a restaurant, I get it.. but if you can't really do food there, then I would not pair up with neighbor joint. It's a cheesy-food experience. (Also, if you are serving Mexican food, ya gotta have some hot sauce in the place. That's a crime to not..)
Nice bartender, good service/conversation. (-: