Michael R.
Yelp
I'm updating my review...and lowering my rating...after three more unpleasant experiences at The Grandview in Arvada.
Frankly, I find that they've just stopped trying. At least from my perspective.
The Guinness ALWAYS tastes like it's being poured through dirty lines, and that alone is unacceptable.
The music is usually way too loud and even when my table politely asked the waitress twice to lower it - then made a few smiley jokes about the crap music being turned up as loud as it was - we were basically blown off.
My friends and I are looking for a place near Olde Town Arvada where we can go for a Guinness on a weekend night without being assaulted by overwhelming music! (We LOVE music...we love LOUD music...but we also recognize that there's a time, a place and that the music should be for the patrons enjoyment, NOT that of the tattooed hipster-wannabe behind the bar.)
Hey morons: There's music you play at a DANCE CLUB and then there's music you play at a place where you want to sit, talk over drinks and not have to shout at each other!! Learn the difference!
The 12 Volt offers loud live music, as does the D-Note across the street, The Archieve Room (shockingly) played music so loud at 9pm, that we left because my party couldn't even hear each other while standing at the host stand, waiting for a hostess that never came...so we left.
We went to go into the new sprotsbar formerly known to locals as "Bliss" and found that a bunch of 20-somethings we
There are a couple of juke joints, but that's not what we were looking for...then we opted for the (too warm) but relatively sticky-tabled coziness of The Grandview, which we all agreed was "the least noisy" of the bunch (or at least it seemed so after we got tired of roaming the streets looking for a place we could chat over a drink!).
The inappropriate-for-the-setting "music" got boosted even louder within 15 minutes of our sitting down.
I want to like The Grandview. Hell, I want to LOVE The Grandview...but they make it impossible.