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    HiHat Lounge

    3.2 (89 reviews)
    Closed 6:00 pm - 2:00 am (Next day)

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    Outdoor seating
    Happy hour specials

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    Cynthia C.

    I loved this place. Stopped by on a Tuesday night after munching on some food at the Garage right down the hallway. Walking from a very modern decorated bar to an underground retro bar is definitely an experience to be had. Whereas the Garage is more of a beer bar, this section was more cocktail, and what stood out is it's very unique list. I was browsing the list of employee-crafted cocktails and picked out my drink of choice when the bartender asked "what do you like to drink?" I told him I liked tequila, he said he might have something for me and asked me if I wanted to try it. I liked the assertiveness, and I will drink anything a professional makes for me, so I said yes!! I love bartenders who aren't afraid be creative with customers and I did actually enjoy the drink very much. Also among the frame-filled walls on the second floor, one contains a series of up-skirt shots of women maybe flashing the camera (it was too dark and high up for me to actually be able to tell).

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    Phillip W.

    We stopped by on Monday PM for the $5 burgers and Happy Hour 1/2 price draft beers. The converted cellar environment is great. The bartender who waited on us was friendly and efficient. It's pretty hard to complain about a ~$15+tip tab for dinner that includes draft beers. The scaled-down (1/3-lb vice 1/2-lb) signature burgers were still pretty filling. The cross-cut fries and tots tasted fine, but weren't especially hot. OTOH, without the specials, our tab would have been more like $35+tip. And neither the lackluster draft beer selection nor the food -- even with the additional 2.666 oz of burger meat -- would stand up to that kind of pricing.

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    Frank A.

    3.5 stars Nice lounge for a drink, but took a very long time to get drinks. Also, they had a DJ - which for a lounge doesnt seem too necessary and the music was very loud. Atmosphere was nice and crowd was good.

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    Genie P.

    What a cool find! I had the Just Call Me Diablo on the Beach which was a delicious tequila cocktail. My man had a Kolsch beer which made him very happy! We also split the buffalo won ton appetizer which was delish! Would definitely recommend this place for really good cocktails in an unpretentious cool setting!

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    Camille L.

    This place is FUN if you're coming here for late night drinks. They have nice lighting and it was pretty easy to get drinks. It's a relatively big bar since it's attached to The Garage. We met some cool people from Chicago here too! I liked this place so much that I wanted to come back the next time I was in town.

    New pic over the bar. No more head platter holding chick.
    Lisa A.

    Debating 3 and 4 stars.. Hi hat is one of those places that's been around a long time. I often chose to come here when I was in my 20s and without fail would get a cell phone call around midnight from a galpal informing me that I'd lost her to the vortex across the street known as jocats. I **think** it was called the hi hat because it opened in the mid nineties during that very brief time when 'swing' music was in. Anyhow... I really usually like the hihat, especially the partially subterranean lounge (the garage not so much). It always exudes a certain atmosphere that's hard to duplicate. The music is pretty eclectic like the crowd. People dress up, dress down; you'll see people from the neighborhood, college kids, couples, biz types, etc. Their drinks evolved with the times and they went from makin a mean metropolitan to a chocolate martini to a flavored mojito, to the other night when they were making drinks from the 1920s and concoctions involving egg whites. Drinks are pricey but good. There food is really good too. Ive had their brunch, and especially in the summer when you can sit out on Brady, its very inviting. Where they *occasionally* lose me is the service. We had a great bartender the other night, and I've had other good servers, but I've had a lot of times when its crowded and hard to get served. And other times when it felt like the staff thought I wasn't good enough to be there. (Boo!) Buuuuut...I'm on a new years resolution to not be petty like that, so let's go with 4 stars. Side note: the giant statue of the woman holding a head on a plate (you'd have to have seen it) is gone. A large picture has replaced it and we were told the idea is to have rotating art there.

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