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For me, the Hotsy Totsy will always be that place I never remember leaving. Super cheap strong drinks that make me forget my name, my address, and (luckily) where I parked my car.
I also almost got into a fight with a man here when he insulted my friend (I've never hit anyone in my life).
They also always had some strange finger sandwiches or Swedish meatballs cooking in the back room.
When I heard the Hotsy Totsy had gotten a little face lift, I was concerned. But I popped in last night during their "Zombie Prom" Halloween party and was pleasantly surprised. It's still the Hotsy Totsy, only cleaner. It's definitely no Beauty Bar.
They've also got a Taco Truck that parks outside (YES!) and the Cupkates truck made an appearance as well.
I'll drink to that.
This is my favorite bar in the area. I was going to do an update on a previous review and found out I never reviewed Hotsy Totsy....probably during my early days of ...this place is sooo good I don't want EVERYONE going to my favorite bar...but I guess the secret is out. This place will be a five star experience for you considering:
1. You are NOT a total ass. This place is a chill, friendly, neighborhood venue. If you think acting a fool is going to give you props and high fives - you are DEAD wrong. Walnut Creek has lots options if this is your scene =)
2. You can handle your alcohol. Which means you drink like you've done it before. I still remember watching Jessica making my first cocktail. I commented on the nice pour - in Jessica's words: "We don't fuck around here..." My kinda of place!
4. You appreciate black velvet posters and 70's B movies. At first you see clips of a cheesy movie. By the end of the night you wish you could hear the audio and start the movie from beginning to end. Do I have to mention Apple?
5. You participate in the awesome happy hour specials like hat night, cross gender dressing, etc - and I get rewarded with a dollar off cocktails?
6. You appreciate the handcrafted, truly original, natural cocktail selection which they make to order every night. YUM! Real citrus zest, freshly squeezed fruit juice. I will have one of each.... Sorry beer drinkers - I don't mean for you to have to wait but it's just pure genius to watch (and drink).
* Taco Truck is an added bonus (ohhh the carne asada burrito - drooool) *
Well let's just say that it's A LOT better than what it was before.
It's true, they've sorta turned it into another Ivy Room, but without all the glamor and red carpet treatment. This bar is wet dog friendly and i especially love the new taco truck along side next door to the bar as a new addition. Get drunk and then go eat some tacos, tacos.
Plus, $10 pitcher of PBR baby!!!!
The bar has a flat screen TV that has been added and will often play some off the wall corny goofy indie flicks. The music is cool and has an older looking jukebox. However, some nights the bar will just play straight off an mp3/ipod player.
The Bathrooms are now a better improvement than before and now have some pretty interesting 50's, 60's pinup pics displayed and mounted on the walls. That should really get your socks off.
Games? Shuffle board? why not. This bar has probably one of the longest shuffle boards here in the east bay. Very similar to the old Ivy Rooms shuffle board. Pool table is 50 cents man! 50 cents! Only down side is the lack of room the area of the pool table has for you to stretch out and actually have enough room to hit the cue ball.
All in all, it's a good spot now and I'd say it's one of the better chill bars besides the mallard around the area locally in the east bay. Check it out if you haven't been yet.
My take, 3 out of 5 stars
I love love love this place. Its my go to bar, especially Thursday - Sunday when the taco truck is in the parking lot. This place has been brought back to life after a armpit like atmosphere. Now its been reborn with a cool retro vibe, great music and always interesting movies on in the corner. I love margaritas and before the remodel I would have never ordered a margarita here. Now its a haven for a quality margarita or other fun concoctions on the menu. The bartenders and owners are friendly and welcoming. They also allow dogs! What more can you ask for :)
Upgraded my rating to 5 stars today, I love this place!
I wrote this place off years ago as the scary alcoholic racist bar, but oh how it has changed. The new owners (as of 2009) are really cool and they transformed this place into a great little neighborhood bar. Cool decor and good deals on drinks, pitchers of PBR for the win!
Also I would come here for the taco truck alone, you can't beat the 1.25 tacos! They also have a decent pool table and indoor shuffleboard. Plus they play classic roadhouse style 70's movies (no sound) on a large flat screen near the bar. They also have reggae/ska/dub night on Sundays.
I have to also say I am surprised at the tales of bad service here, I have never had anything but polite attentiveness here from everyone on staff, they are really cool people.
If you wrote a bad review for this place, I think you are a total ass and you probably deserved any bad service you got. How can people even say the bartenders are rude or ugly, last I checked they were all friendly and hot, and that is before the PBR kicks in.
This just isn't the place for pretentious jerks, maybe that explains the people that didn't like it. It's all about the good times and fun, enjoy it or GTFO!
cheap strong drinks, velvet paintings, strange almost porn b-movies playing on the flat screen TV-- who could ask for more?
I've lived in El Cerrito for 9 years & had never been to this dive until last night. I'll be back! and I'm bringing my dog- lots of dogs were hanging out there, oddly enough.
If not for the well-meaning woman by the taco truck telling me that the Hotsy Totsy goes through a renovation every few years, each time becoming more hipster, I would definitely give this place 5 stars. I believe that woman by the taco truck! You can tell this place was once a great neighborhood dive, but it has gotten prettier and more pretentious as time went by. I have mixed feelings about this.
Nonetheless, super friendly bartenders (one of whom actually owns the bar yet deigns to make the fresh-grapefruit-juice Salty Dogs and pour the beers), easy seating, shuffleboard and a great jukebox equal a rollicking good time. And a taco truck on the weekends! No cabeza, but oh, the lengua...
wow, hotsy totsy has gotten a makeover recently. i like it. the bar is nice and cozy, but you can sit with big groups or yourself if you like. the owners are locals who wanna keep the love and experience in their town. cute dark 60's/70's cheese decor. they are giving mallard a run for their trendy money. bartenders, day and night are experineced and good.
thanks for reading
I watched this place change for the better in Spring of 09, and started going there as soon as they reopened. The ambience was great, and they've started drawing a friendly bunch, so it's become one of my faves. And there's parking, making it actually possible to "stop by" for a pint on the way home!
Dive bar? Really? Just because they have a 45 jukebox? Because the crowd is random? Because the drinks are cheap and there is no cover? Maybe the shuffleboard table or the ratty pool table?
Whaaaattttt-eva! I love this place. Stone IPA in the bottle for 4 bills and PBR (if thats your thing on draft).
Wish you were closer Hotsy Totsy... like in walking distance home. Enjoy!
Comfy, velvet paintings, jukebox, fun place to hang out.
Drinks were affordable but oddly mixed. I got one which was so salty that halfway through my lips dried out and tongue started to hurt so much that I had to switch to drinking another kind of drink. Another was so lemony that it stung the scraped tonguewound. I'm no pro at making drinks myself but I can't keep drinking as happily if I'm injured ;)
I can't decide what to write about the tots.....
maybe you should just take me there and tell the bartending jessica to make this jessica a Jessica, on the rocks. Cuz she will. And I will drink it!!
maybe you should take me there and get cozy with me under the clown kids pictures in the hip little corner with the retro table and vintagey wooden couch/chair combo.
or maybe you should stand out under the blingin new neon and smoke a smoke with me in the rain, lookin out on a drizzly san pablo in the late night.
i friggin love places like this- still pretty divey (I mean, this is albany/ el cerrito) but all cleaned up with some badass touches. And the people who own it are not assholes! They didn't turn this little corner plot into a dry cleaner or some other equally useless thing the area didn't need more of. I also really just love saying 'meet me at the hotsy.' It's got a ring to it, don't ya think? 5 effin stars.
we couldn't get into mallard or the ivy room because one of the members of our party didnt have an id, so hotsy totsy was really our only other choice. appartenly, this place has really changed throughout the years. for the better...
it's a decent spot. the drinks are freakishly cheap and they have cool tables with classic newspaper headlines as the decor. they have a shuffleboard table to the side and they have a taco truck next door with decent food.
too bad some of the patrons were complete douchebags. that alone would make me chosse mallard or the ivy room over this place anyday of the week. but again, it's a decent spot.
The short: cheap, clean, nice crowd, and nice cocktails (hello, they have a $7 Rye Manhattan? WTF, that's awesome).
The long: let's do this.
I remember the Hotsy Totsy in its previous incarnation as a local dive bar. It could be a fun and happening place (I remember the huge, fat old bartendress bending a guy who'd spilled his drink over the bar and whipping him with a cat o' nine tails she apparently kept handy), but it could also be a fucking snooze fest, or worse, it could attract the "rough crowd" of El Cerrito (snort, chuckle), mostly fat white guy with ZZ Top bears and Raiders bandanas covering the male-pattern baldness and large women. Sorry, Large Women.
It was a dump, not a dive.
I went on Saturday night, VERY RELUCTANTLY, lured by the promise that "it is nothing like it used to be, I swear."
It's true; the Hotsy Totsy is nothing like it used to be.
For example, they keep a ton of beers in stock--and they are *all* $4. Imagine, a Boont Summer Solstice for $4! And they have a cocktail list which I swear to God is actually *good*.
Their Old Manhattan is made with Old Overholt Rye (!) and I'm not sure what the vermouth was, but it wasn't any of the shitty Noilly Pratt / Gallo stuff that everyone else uses--this was what a Manhattan is supposed to taste like, it's why people love Manhattans. MmmMMMMmmMM.
Their entire list of "house cocktails" is like that--nothing "artisan" or fancy, just classic cocktails done with well selected ingredients. You don't have to whip egg foam or handcrafted bitters into your drinks to make them good, and they don't have to run $14, either.
The crowd was mixed, meaning some middle-agers, some youngsters. I saw a few tools wearing polo shirts with popped collars (they were friendly, if douchey), young girls, some cougars, some aging punks--seriously, the crowd was mixed.
The Hotsy is obviously still getting its bearings. It's hard to tell where it's going to end up, because the Missouri hipsters might find their way in, but the bartending staff doesn't seem like the slutty blond punk girls that work the Missouri bar (and crowd), and they don't have any $2 Kessler shots, so hopefully not.
I look forward to trying to help the place become a cool, friendly, noisy place to have an inexpensive but goddamn good cocktail.
I will say that that the women behind the bar are attractive, but kinda scary. I think she could have broken me in half; I spent two hours trying to work up the nerve to tell her that her fly was down, but I finally just gave it up--especially because I think she just thought that I was staring at her crotch (which, come on, nobody does--what guy gets excited by the crotch of a woman wearing jeans?? wrong garment for highlighting the female genitalia, IMHO).
BOTTOM LINE AT THE TOP: Once a dive bar for pensioners, the new owner's have given this saloon new life, and then some.
With new owner's at the helm, this once dreeriest of dive bars, has had a makeover, both behind the bar as well as in front, giving the place a more boneafed air while still retaining it's tavernesk charm.
The old creaky wood bar top has been replaced with smooth stone; the ceiling, once a crack lined cement block painted black, is now covered in silver findings, adding much needed depth to the room; the alcohol... a much more eclectic selection, with mirco brews, fine liqueurs, and imported spirits (they even got Rum from Thailand!) and they don't charge you the usual Bay Area mark up for a quality drink either.
They still have the old pool table and shuffle board, relics from the bar's previous life, and they added a wide screen TV, that plays old-school horror movies, and Cabaret Show highlights throughout the night.
This place has quickly becoming one of my favorites.
OMG NEW FAVE BAR!
amazing free jukebox playing oldies and the bartenders always play good music on the ipod too. free shuffleboard! very cheap pool! the owner, michael, brings his dog all the time and jimmy is the sweetest puppy. bartenders are always fast and super friendly.
love the pics in the men's room.
I don't know about this talk of renovation. As someone who has been to the HT three times total-- twice in 2000 or so, once last week-- I can safely say that very little of substance has changed since then. They painted the outside (paint doesn't last forver, kids). They cleaned up the inside, maybe scrubed a few decades of smoke off the ceiling, threw out some ratty furniture. I'd call what they did "Maintenance". A place can't forever stay exactly as you remember it being. It's still cheap, it's just the dollar that sucks. You are poor and doomed to be so forever, just accept it and be happy.
The staff and other patrons were nice, and my friend and I particularly enjoyed the guy who hung out with his loaf of sliced white bread for about an hour, eventually to curse and stomp off in disgust. Perhaps at being cut off.
Oh and I got news for you, kids: There were cougars there 8 years ago too. Only you didn't call them cougars, you called them "mom".
UPDATE!
I like it better without the piss smell. And the drinks beat the pants off the neighboring joints.
5 stars! Go Totsy!
Dude, it's a COUGAR BAR! Mwroar!
Okay, so I don't really know wtf those two negative reviews are all…
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where has the hotsy been all my life?? no, srsly.. we stopped in yesterday around 4, for some much needed refreshments after a long and quite warm drive home from the sonoma county fair.
suspiciously appearing as just another dive along san pablo, i was pretty much floored when i walked in and quickly whipped out my camera to grab a couple pics of the super cute decor...
nudie girls and velvet art featuring 60's kids with huge eyes? check.
old style jukebox w/all the classics? check.
a sweet shuffle board and separate pool table room with still more amazing retro art decor? check.
AWESOME bartender in his 70's who made us some of the stiffest but tastiest drinks i've had in a while? check.
best and cleanest dive ladies bathroom i've ever been in with pink walls and still more bondage style nudie art? check!
so the questions stands. is it time for drinks yet?
Dear Hotsy Totsy,
You pretty much suck now. You should teach some of your lady bartenders not to be such bitches to people who are giving them money. I know people order weird drinks sometimes, but get the fuck over it and just make them what they want, that's how you get tips! duh.
Classy joint! When i saw they were remodeling a year or two ago I was scared that the place would be turned into another lost cause like the Ivy Room. But NO! The new Totsy is the best thing to come thru this part of San Pablo Ave in YEARS! Whether it's monday night or friday night, you will always find a diverse crowd, affordable drinks, good records playing on either the free jukebox or ipod, all the while the best trash cinema plays quietly in the background. Pool and Shuffleboard as well! While I do miss the days of Sheila serving drinks, the current staff of bartenders are more than friendly and quite generous with they're pour. I'm so happy there's a place for me to drink in Albany again. Keep on rockin' Totsy!
Ok, so my review won't change the rating for the Hotsy Totsy or anything, it is a pretty cool place. It is kind of divey. Only kind of divey because the bathrooms are super clean and the floors aren't sticky and the drinks can be fancy with Pimms Cups and the like. Very nice. Nothing to complain about. The music is fun, lots of oldies, there is shuffle board, a cool decorative ceiling. I did notice the cougars, although I am a hesitant to judge because I am only 2 years from being a puma myself. Nothing wrong with a cougar to lively up the night. Anyway back to business, I did have a good night there and it seems like a decent place.
The bartenders on Saturday suck. Yes, I am writing a nasty yelp review directed to the larger apple shapped brunette bartender. Go ahead yelp, delete me if you want to but I do hope someone reads this review, even if it is the last review after clicking through 10+ reviews of the Hotsie Totsie.
I waited at least 30 minutes for a drink. 30 minutes not just for her to ask but for a chance for me to bark in her face my order of 3 PBRs, not much to ask for. Everyone knows that bartenders can use their position as a power trip, but seriously, 30 minutes? This chick needs to get, I dunno what I'm allowed to say here, she needs to get that stick out of her butt. I understand you are busy and all but that does not justify the attitude and blatant bitchiness. I hope she reads this.
Funny to see the reviews of yesteryear - the "before" version of the Hotsy, and the more recent "after" version. I went there a few times in the "before" days - and it was, without any question, definitively, a dive bar if there ever was such a thing in the world. I don't even mean that disparagingly. A dive is a cheap, unpretentious, grimy and basically hideous place. Great to dive into for a drink and a think. Also useful for taking a date to if you want them to lose all interest in you quickly.
Not so with the new Hotsy. The new Hotsy Totsy is a classy joint. A club. It's not a dive anymore. While the new owners, to their credit, maintained the pool table and shuffleboard and the general layout of the place, gone is the nicotine stained ceiling and the crusty unspeakable bathrooms, the ugly art and bad beer lights from 1955 on the walls. Now you have a classic, kinky pin up girl theme for some of the art, the most brilliantly curated vinyl jukebox in the bay area, all this and cultish martial arts porn movies playing silently on the big screen above the bar. If hearing vinyl 45s of Sham 69 and Brothers Johnson while watching half naked ninja model girls fight with flaming swords doesn't float your boat, I can't help you. Furthermore, the bartenders and owners are some of the sweetest people you could ever meet, and if a little attitude is more than you can bear, ya know, you might feel more comfortable at Skates. Hotsy Totsy totally rocks.
The Hotsy Totsy is a good, comfortable place with reasonably priced drinks and FREE pool and FREE shuffleboard. The new decor looks really nice and the jukebox plays some really great oldies. I am the type of person who hates to go to a bar and not have a place to sit. This is not a problem at the Hotsy Totsy. Even on a "crowded" Friday evening, the pool table was available, there were plenty of places to sit and the shuffle board table was also available. My friends and I were able to have a few drinks, chat and play some games. The music is loud enough to enjoy, but you can still carry on a conversation there.
The only minus was when we were playing shuffleboard, there were 2 drunk guys getting in each others faces right next to us. It made us pretty uncomfortable and we decided to not finish our beers and head out because of them. Guys, please learn to control yourselves.
BITE ME. They turned Hotsy Totsy into Ivy Room. Good job, IF YOU'RE A COUGAR.
1) music was 1960's light latin jazz played obnoxiously loud.
2) bartender was under 48 years old and 220 pounds
3) full of cougars
4) four drinks cost more than $15
5) seriously, they cost $22
6) what the hell?
7) bite me, hotsy totsy
8) ironic 1960's tables
9) sad clowns all over the walls. who looks at hotsy totsy and thinks "Sad clowns. I need some sad clowns right now?"
10) I am gay and do not want to date a 40 year old woman.
Bring back old Hotsy Totsy now. I want to be charged a random amount less than $4 for a glass of rum and then get a chalupa in the Taco Bell walk-thru.
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What did you do Friday night? .."I went to the HOTSY TOTSY man!" I love the name of this place! Just has a fun ring to it. The place is a total dive complete with pool tables, juke box and shuffle board. The bartenders got beat with an ugly stick but that's okay because they load your cocktails up with lots of strong liquor. The best part of this place is the taco truck outside.
Consistently a really fun crowd: lots of restaurant peoples and nice age range. Fly pulp fiction/blaxploitation/vintage porn movies playing, and a very well selected jukebox that plays 45s. Great cocktails, charming staff.
Go here soon.
HT had it's charm "before" but now this place is my favorite local drinking spot. Still retains all the goodness of a dive, but with better music and great cocktails. Especially the hottie who works Sunday nights; anything he pours is worth drinking.
Hotsy Totsy is like the boyfriend you like a lot, and then finally get to bring home to meet your friends, but by that point he's become a smelly racist and you're embarrassed because you told your friends how great he was, but now he totally sucks.
Replace "boyfriend" with "bar", and "smelly racist" with "cougar bar." It *used* to be good. Then it was shut down for a while, painted purple, and cleaned. Damn you, gentrification!
Sam M. and I took our friends to Hotsy Totsy, our favorite bar, for their first time. Sam M. and I just sat there, sipping our weak-ass, expensive drinks, our eyes fluttering between the sad clown paintings (WTF!?!) and the table of cougars. Sensing our depression, our friends took us home immediately and we had a Cajun funeral (more drinking, music) in memory of our dearly departed Hotsy Totsy.
Goodbye Totsy. I hardly knew thee. Hello Ye Olde Hut, with your cheapness, mildly confrontational regulars, and proximity to my house.
Hate it hate it hate it
I loved the old Hotsy Totsy, imagine my surprise at seeing the entire sign lit up and functioning?!?!
Seriously though...I loved to "shoot the root" here. With the change in management the root is no more. Booo!
Update:
1 star because you killed the spirit of the hotsy totsy. Last time I checked I had a right to my opinion, although I wish I had at least given it 2 so I could take one away as a result of your comment. I was thinking about giving you another shot but now I will not be coming back. And yes, I will be happy when you close down and the space is used for condo's
The trick to a dive (for the uninatiated) is to go in the mid-afternoon when the locals are there to shoot the shit and avoid their wives. That's the true sweet spot of dive bar-dom. You'll hear some gritty 'Nam stories (and get hit on if you're a healthy-looking femaie), chase cheap liquor with PBR, and marvel at the glorious velvet paintings of topless beauties. Anything after 10 on a weekend is probably a crap shoot.
I'm updating my review yet again!
I'm officially a fan of totsy again, I met the owners and they were very nice. I've been back a couple of times and each time has been more enjoyable then the last! The drinks are strong and not expensive, the bartenders are getting better. And they have a taco truck outside on friday & saturday nights which really works out well after all the drinking. My friends & I will definitely be back soon!
Also another point is that the owners clearly care about their customers, especially the female customers which is really nice, so thanks!
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Great make-over! Great new owners! Great dog!
Holy dive bar! Not to mention totally bikertrashXcore to the max.
Having spent many of my formative years in the area, I would often pass by the Hotsy Totsy and wonder what kind of sleazy, dirty, trashy, kinky activities went on inside. With a name like Hotsy Totsy and its seedy facade, you really start to wonder what goes on behind closed door, so my friend and I decided to venture out and find out on the Fourth of July, and as we discovered, disappointingly -- not much.
My friend and I grabbed a seat at the bar and the bartender came up from behind us and disgruntledly said "ID". She was kind of harsh. So was the lighting. Especially in the pool area. It just made the whole place look waaaay dirty. But the drinks were cheap. We got a Pabst and a Long Island Iced Tea for just $10. Pool was cheap, too, just 50 cents a game.
Overall though, I didn't really dig the ambiance of the place. I'd rather pay a little more for pool and drinks to be at a nicer place and have a better time. The decor was pretty tacky, the music on the jukebox sucked, and I didn't appreciate the drunken middle-aged regulars who were sitting adjacent to me oogling and burning a hole through me with their eyes.
After we finished a couple of games of pool here, we walked to the Mallard down the street, where much better times were had.
i went in to the hotsy on a cold and rainy night,the bar was a comfortable 1/3 full for most of my stay (that's good for a monday) and i have to say nice job!!!! cozy,free juke box w/great tunes, bartender jessica makes a kick ass mai thai,muay thai-whatever!!!!
worth checking out.
Wow, what an improvement...the best dive bar in the area! Cleaned up, but still the feel of a good old dive. Great free jukebox, free pool, etc., and $5 for a 2 oz. pour of just about anything. This is our new favorite hang.
Dive bars shouldn't be this well lit.
EDIT** The bar has been re-hauled since my last attendance. I have yet to check it out in it's new reincarnation.
Yes indeed it is reopened. We went there last Friday night and I can say as a long time patron the changes were all positive. Similar but redone decor, clean bathrooms (along some cool 50's girlie photos in the mens room), old jukebox with decent assortment of old and new, and a good re-energized vibe. Some may miss the rattier nature of the old Totsy, but with a tin instead of "popcorn" ceiling, way better lighting (I will NEVER understand brightly lit bars - they make my bloodshot eyes hurt!), and refinished everything, that "kinda sad" feeling of the place is now but a distant memory. And they did it without ruining the spirit like Kingman and Co. did to the Ivy Room. Only sad thing in there now are two of those odd, "big eyed kid" pictures, but we'll imagine they're weeping a tear in reverence of the former Tots. Check it out. Have one of those Thai beers. Enjoy.
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Put on your Carhartts, buy a pack of cigarettes and order a pitcher of Pabst without any hint of irony whatsoever. Welcome to the Hotsy Totsy Club.
This bar is an interesting study in modern American sociology.
Saturday night, abundant parking and shuffle board along the wall.
I sat at the bar and watched my boyfriend engage in an impromptu drinking game with whom appeared to be the town regular--the joker you might say. He was a jolly fellow who alerted us to the $6 pitchers of beer (why pay $4 for a pint when you can have that deal!?), and then proceeded to engage my man in a game where the object was to raise their glass every time they heard the word "pork chop".
"How odd", you must be thinking, since drinking games commence with much more thought out planning and usually coincide with some sort of degree of attachment to Kevin Bacon. Adding to the humor was the fact that my bf is a vegetarian.
The decor in the bar hasn't changed in decades. Neither has the bartender--a simple man who pours a mean whiskey and gladly fills your pint glass half way with tequila and doesn't even blink. The clientele is sporattic: ranging from the old timers who sit down and talk of the huge fare eaten at other establishments (hence the porkchop commentary), wayward hipsters who like to play memory games while getting plastered, and the band of merry locals who stroll in like Cliff from Cheers and harangue the owner, but it's all in good humor.
The juke box has a mind of it's own and the lighting may have been a bit too bright when we first walked in, but after a Prince song and a drink or two, they were dimmed.
Ahh, if you want to go somewhere and be left alone, make a friend or get a cheap, strong (yet small) drink, well then Johnny Boozerini, the Hotsy Totsy is for you.
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