Fred S.
Yelp
Pro:
- One of the best bars in all of Spokane to watch big games, from Seattle Kraken to Gonzaga basketball. Even if it's crowded, you can usually get one of the staff to put whichever baseball, football, or basketball game you're interested in up on one of more than 20 screens.
- The staff are really nice but they can get slammed - especially on big game nights - and it may take a while to get served.
- The poutine is amazing. I think I've had poutine at like 2 or three other places but this is my favorite.
Con:
There's a regular at Stanley's who looks like a taller version of Gary Coleman (TGC). TGC adores insulting men and then sneaking up from behind and smacking their butts as hard he can with his chubby his little hands -- without warning or consent. The owners of Stanley's, Jesse Koester and Eowen Rosentrator, adore TGC's irreverent, edgy sense of humor, and think his butt smacking hijinks are endearing and hilarious so if you complain, they'll tell you that your complaint is "bullshit" and that you should stop "shitting in their nest". If you tell them you want to see a copy of the security camera footage, they'll cite a policy they made up 8 seconds before which tautologically says they can only share it with the police. Then, if you ask the police to ask the owners for the security footage, the owners will lie to the police and say the footage deleted itself before they could take the three seconds it would have taken them to preserve it.
Anyways, this would totally be a 5 star review if I enjoyed having my butt smacked by angry, stupid little dudes, or if I was an angry, stupid little dude who enjoyed butt smacking, or if I appreciated being flat out lied to by cuckoos and cuckolds.