Sad to post this because I am a lover of classic dive bars, and it's close to where I live, and it hosts karaoke. Who doesn't love that? However, my friends and I were here this last Saturday night and had a pretty traumatic evening. Early on in the evening, I witnessed a male customer coming up to a table near me who seemed to be getting into an altercation with a younger woman and man. I overheard the male who approached saying something like, "Don't touch me", and when he left, I went up to the table and asked one of the women if they were okay and needed help. She said that the male who approached had been making them uncomfortable all night. I went to the man who hosted karaoke (not sure if he's the owner) and told him, "Just to make you aware, there's a man here is who making people uncomfortable and might cause further trouble. He might need to be kicked out." He was singing karaoke and nodded, which was as much acknowledgement as I was going to get apparently. Fast forward ahead, I witnessed another male spanking and grabbing a woman who was in our group. She was clearly uncomfortable, so I went forward and told him to leave her alone. This time, we again told the man who was running karaoke, and his excuse was, "They are regular patrons and don't normally act like this; I'll talk to them." They continued to be allowed entry into the bar and caused tension between my friends and me. Fast forward again, the second individual grabbed another of our friends when she finished her song, and we all approached asking him to leave us alone or get out. No action from the person running karaoke. However, when my friend playfully tapped the mic after his set, he got on the mic and aggressively told her to not touch his equipment because "it wasn't safe". He went up to the two men that had been causing issues all night and proceeded to complain about my friend touching a microphone and our group in general, and my friend called him out on it, asking if property was a bigger issue than our general safety. This escalated to a full-blown screaming match, and he accused us of not telling him we were uncomfortable, even though we had approached him about three times at this point. It was exhausting, defeating, and we all left in very low spirits. We were paying, respectful customers who simply asked to not be harassed nor assaulted and, instead of being helped out by the individual running the bar that night (since there clearly wasn't a bouncer or anyone else that would support us), he turned around and verbally assaulted us. Never coming back. I would recommend women customers to be aware of their surroundings here since our safety clearly doesn't come first. read more
