Cocktailia

After having a drink at The Blue Room last night we walked a couple doors down to check out Razzberriez

We ordered more Stoli and tonics here, which were nice and cheap at $4.00 each. The bar is done mostly in red with a weird Chinese theme. They lose one point for having one beer sign up, an O’Douls (non-alcoholic beer even) backlit menuboard type thing, and lose another point for having something about bombing Iraq written on it. The bartender here was really friendly, checking with us a couple times while we were there and as we were leaving commenting that she hoped it was the volume, not the content, that was driving us out (there was a really loud group of people playing pool).

They have a regular CD jukebox with a lot of good stuff including, of all things, The Sisters of Mercy, which I’ve never seen at a bar. We played the Sisters, Sinatra, Johnny Cash, Tom Jones, and Nirvana. The totally normal looking guy who picked songs right after us played the Sisters too. Very strange.

I can see how The Blue Room might attract more of a “hip” crowd, the decor being all cool and retro and stuff, while Razzberriez seemed like more of a neighborhood dive bar with just a bunch of regulars. I preferred the look of The Blue Room (I like cool colors), but overall we both liked Razzberriez better. I’m sure we’ll become regulars at both.