*This place is brand spankin' new, so there's gonna be changes ahead, no doubt.
*It's kinda fun that every other bar seat is a saddle but they are tough to sit on for very long and especially awkward for short people and people wearing skirts or dresses. Some of the neon signs are cool, some are trying too hard to be "cowboy."
*Everything on the menu would likely lead to heartburn. The options are limited and jalapeños are in almost every dish. It might be possible to order food next door from Grizzly Peak, which would be great, but I don't know. We both had regular burgers and fries. The fries were delicious. The burgers, which we had requested to be cooked medium rare, were rare, almost cold.
*There was a decent selection of beers of most kinds, including NA. We did not see any sours, however, and the beer list on the menu was very short, though many more brands were available behind the bar. They will hopefully print beer lists in the future.
*The tables are large and guests should be prepared to share w other patrons.
*The female vocalist for the 5:00 hour was very good. (Hilarious that she beautifully performed a great Patsy Cline song "Blue over you" and credited it to a cover artist. Girl needs to study country music history!)
*The truly puzzling thing about The Ranch is that every single beverage is served in plastic: plastic water, soda, beer, and cocktail glasses, and even plastic pitchers! It's extremely unpleasant to receive beverages in thick, tacky, toxic plastic. Ugh! Hopefully the plastic stuff is only temporary. It really must go, except for use outdoors.
*If you choose to have a mixed drink, ask the male bartender to make your cocktails. The male bartender made solid 4-count pours. Yum!
Most of the time we were there this evening, all the TVs in the bar room. We're on a University of Michigan Championship hockey game. Weirdly, the TV right in front of us was on the sitcom "Big Bang Theory" and even had the subtitles turned on. Not a great thing to watch in a bar. I requested that they change it, but they said it was too hard. However, one of the managers came in and complained about it and suddenly it was changed to the hockey game.
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