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    Sandy's

    2.4 (30 reviews)
    InexpensiveCocktail Bars
    Closed 8:30 pm - 2:00 am (Next day)

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    Marc D.

    We hit Sandy's a little after 6pm on a saturday night. Stopped in for a drink while waiting for the concert venue next door to open. Large bar. Nice beer selection, package service it appeared. as well as simpsons playing on the televisions and a Kiss pinball machine (sounds great in my book already) Had some good conversation with the bartender. he was very friendly open and had been working there a long time. I am not familiar at all with Lincoln, and he was very helpful educating me. After the concert we stopped back in and it was HAPPENING!! Great activity with the 21-25 age group and a couple of people in their 30's. This was outside of the school year so i am sure it would be a different experience another time. I really enjoyed stopping in and chatted with the keep again for a while. Had a good time and would return again

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    Jaquelyn B.

    2 stars and not 1 because I chatted with some super cool bartenders. And the place is iconic as far as Lincoln, NE is concerned. A few bartenders however (and technically you could argue all of them because complicity and give this place a negative 2) were not so cool. We noticed a bunch of giggling and pointing to the bottle in my photo - Absolute Grapefruit. Someone took a black sticker and placed it strategically over the G so the bottle reads Rapefruit. AND NO ONE FIXED IT. They just laughed and laughed. Not cool Sandy's. I won't be back.

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    5 years ago

    Always a fun atmosphere! Love the swamp water too. Makes watching the game a little easier

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    8 years ago

    VERY average bar. Nothing absolutely great about this place. I got kicked out one night while sober by a bartender for no reason.

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    It's almost a dive, which I like, but it's downtown Lincoln so it full of trendy college students which means it's not a dive.

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    Some girlfriends and I hung out here after a recent Nebraska game. I loved the outdoor space- very…read morecharming, easy to find a table and even available benches. It was a gorgeous night so it was great being outside. The place was busy but we had no issues getting drinks in a timely manner. They also had a food vendor in the courtyard selling hot dogs and pretzels. I recommend stopping by!

    My sister, who was the only Black woman in the space at the time, accidentally bumped into another…read moreguest who was wearing a medical boot. She immediately apologized several times with genuine care and concern. Instead of accepting the apology or simply walking away, the woman responded harshly, telling my sister to "get out of my face." That interaction alone left my sister feeling deeply uncomfortable and targeted. Feeling shaken and outnumbered, she called me and our other sisters for support. When we arrived to understand what had happened, we were calm and simply trying to get the full story. That's when things took a turn for the worse. The woman's boyfriend looked right at one of the workers and said, "get these f***ers out of here." Moments later, an employee named William Wilson grabbed my arm so aggressively that he left a bruise. He physically pushed us out--me, my sisters, and even some of our friends and coworkers who had nothing to do with the incident. Eleven of us were thrown out without anyone asking for our side of the story. Meanwhile, the woman and her group, who were loud, aggressive, and clearly at the center of the confrontation, were allowed to stay. They continued drinking, playing games, and enjoying their night like nothing had happened. It's hard not to see the racial bias in how everything was handled. We were treated like a problem, not like people. We weren't heard, we weren't respected, and we were physically harmed and humiliated just for standing up for our sister and trying to understand what was going on.

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