Is a Man-Cave Still A Man-Cave If Your Wife Can See You?

We have some preliminary plans drawn that illustrate how we would like to expand into the space next door. Janet’s Chicago-Irish-Democrat roots are showing… she wants an Irish pub. With 40’ of storefront the space isn’t much of a “man-cave”, as an Irish pub seems to call for, so maybe we’ll theme it as an Irish Inn. We want it to be family friendly so we have a place to serve folks when the restaurant is sold out for special events. The expansion would essentially double our space. We will need to upgrade the kitchen. The existing dining room would remain the essentially the same except we’d remove the coolers and expand into what is now the prep kitchen.

The current 10’ ceilings only reach half way to 20’ height of the second floor so we want to leave the space open in the bar’s main seating area and build a mezzanine floor over the back half of the space. We have been considering installing a nano-brewery. Lately though the notion of building a “Club Floor” (so called by Bethany’s Mayor) with possibly a cigar room, billiards, club chairs and sofas… not THAT’S a man cave!

We’d love to here your thoughts on this. If you’d like to see an early-stage schematic of the plan for the combined space simply Click Here To See The Plan. If you have $150,000 burning a hole in your pocket and want free beer for life, drop everything and call David immediately!

Now there is absolutely no reason that you can't join us for dinner!

While "We've Got Booze" might not be OLCC approved terminology, the fact is that you can now enjoy a cocktail when you visit our Table. Being true to our freestyle roots, we got the license first and then began the work to figure out how we were going to deal with it. What we have figured out so far is that we use good booze, have an interesting and tasty specialty drink list and sell for reasonable prices.

Happy Hour!

So it stands to reason that we’d roll out a Happy Hour.  The OLCC says that we can’t tell you in a single communication both the time of the happy hour and the price of the drinks. (Chris Dudley says he’d abolish the OLCC if elected and now I’m a life-long flaming liberal that has discovered Republican love).

So for now we’ll just let you know that we’ll be serving a special small plate menu and discounted drinks from 4–6 P.M. But I suppose you can click here to check out the Cocktail and Happy Hour Menu for yourself.

Everybody knows that if you want to find a great happy hour in Palm Desert you just need to ask somebody from Claremont. The senior crowd will really like the small plates, the early service and the discount. There are plenty of moms out there who would love to duck out for a chat, a snack and a drink in the late afternoon. And there are a lot of guys who enjoy ogling the moms.

So… Happy Hour it is!

With this change we will be commencing full dinner service an hour earlier, at 4 PM. See you then!

Living Large On The Veranda

A Table For Eight

It's The Season

The barrel and stools are set up out front and the tables and chairs have been set up on the veranda. This year though we have added a large, beautiful stone table seating up to 8 diners on the back patio. We have one heater up and running and will be adding more. We even have fleece throws to keep you cozy!