You're walking to the hotel, hoping you haven't gotten there too late, after all, the bar is only opened from 5-10 and you're set to arrive around 8:30. Will there be room around a fire pit? An open air bar on the 14th floor in this weather is going to be a bit chilly...
You arrive at the lobby, a well dressed, professional "bouncer" checks your id, hands you a wrist band, then scans his card in the elevator for you. You and another few people head up to the bar. Down the hall, out the door, there's a covered pool, a stunning view blocked by absolutely no one and no thing.
You glance around the bar:
There's also a seating area:
And the ICE BAR!
So what's missing? Fire pits and people.
I don't know if they want to call a corner of ineffective space heaters and a gas flame in the side of a wall (that does not produce heat) a fire pit, but definitely not as advertised. And crowd? They must have also gotten the hint and taken a hike.
We both got a drink (even though we were freezing, neither of the warm cocktails sounded good at the time: spiked hot cocoa and mulled wine) and went for the cold specialty cocktails. One was some sort of firey vodka thing--jalepeno (I think?) infused vodka with some sort of juice and bitter oranges and I had some sort of Lychee nut vodka drink. Neither was particularly impressive and at the steep price of $12 a drink, they certainly weren't something to write home about. The bar tender poured Chadd's drink sloppily into the cup, so when he held it....wet cold hands.
We watched a couple try out the ice luge (cool), but I think they were as disenchanted as we were, even post luge. It was going to take a lot more than a cold shot of vodka to make it work.
High Points:
- Cool View
- Cool ice bar
- Cool concept
Low Points:
- No fire pit (effing freezing)
- Bad/Expensive Drinks
- No "scene" as it were
- Poor execution
Rating (based on a 1-5 scale):
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