I was on vacation from Buffalo, New York and this was one of the few places still open during the…read morepandemic because it is not only a bar, but also a restaurant, and places where food accounts for 51% or more of their total sales are allowed to remain open.
This was clearly a local establishment and even though it's on Highway 195 you can tell they don't get a lot of passersby. Definitely a favorite spot for locals.
We came on a Saturday and when we arrived there was a group of 1%ers (bikers) hanging around the front entrance and several motorcycles were visible in the parking lot. I looked at my friend as if to say what kind of a place is this?? But the bikers didn't look like they were causing any trouble so we felt comfortable enough to go in and check it out. And I'm glad we did.
It took a few minutes to be served because only one person is allowed to go up to the bar at a time. We were standing there and it felt like a few of the bikers cut in front of us but we weren't sure if they were regulars, and we were the outsiders in this situation so we didn't wanna say anything. But then one of the men looked at us, smiled, and motioned that we were next.
The bartender was very friendly and we I figured that since it had taken a few minutes to get up to the bar we might as well order everything we were going to need so we ordered a few shots, a beer for my friend, a mixed drink for me, and two orders of tacos. Then we went out back and sat on the patio.
There were three seating areas outside. Two had actual tables, I like the wooden picnic table kind, and one area had nice patio furniture set around a coffee table type of table. There was nobody sitting in the patio furniture area so that's where we headed.
The seating was clean and very comfortable. Within a few minutes other people came and sat on the other couches in a little area we were in and we struck up conversations. It's Texas, so everyone was very friendly.
Within the first 30 minutes of being there many of the bikers had left and the people remaining just seemed like regular people. Maybe this wasn't a "biker bar" after all.
At one point a man came and sat by us, introduced himself as Leo, and told us he was the DJ and would be going on shortly. We shared some small talk about where we were all from and then he went back inside.
When The music started it was piped outside and it was a very decent volume. Loud enough so that individual people could have private conversations, but not so loud that you couldn't talk.
When certain songs came on lots of people were getting up and line-dancing (everyone was wearing masks) in the area that had picnic tables around the edges. There was a space in the middle, maybe 10'x20', for people to dance on the concrete. We did The Wobble, the Cupid Shuffle, and a little while later I went inside to the DJ and requested Copperhead Road and since nobody was familiar with that line dance, I taught a group of people, including the owner who had joined the rest of us on the dance floor. It was a blast.
Only one negative experience during the whole visit, a drunk guy took offense to something he overheard my friend and I talking about. But honestly it seemed like he was looking for something to be offended by because he didn't seem to want to let it go but he eventually did. But that happens sometimes in bars when people are drinking and it shouldn't be held against the establishment. I definitely got the feeling that nobody was gonna let him do anything to me and at no time did I ever feel unsafe.
I will definitely return the next time I'm in town. I can't wait to bring my husband here. He would love it.
