Mezzanine

I'm not sure about Rugby. We had Setanta Sports, but because the live games were all morning games we were never open enough to justify the $100 a month cost.

Was reading through this thread and came across a small bit of misconception about us (Mezzanine Lounge). We don't turn into a nightclub with loud thumping music at night. We are pure sports/neighborhood bar all of the time. On different nights we have pool, darts, trivia, karaoke, poker, a "DJ" who plays from a diverse list of the last 30 years of music on Fridays, a couple of jukeboxes, etc. We have four different areas, so (for example) if you don't want to deal with karaoke- you don't have to. Don't want to watch people play poker downstairs? There's always the upstairs or patio, and so on. We're also pretty casual with dress code, main request is no wife beaters. We have a good industry crowd, so there's always people coming in after work in server/bartender uniform. I like our crowd a lot, it's diverse and comfortable. I recently did see a girl come in who was clearly uncomfortable with the casual dress code, but she was dressed in a Paris Hilton style dress and it was on a Sunday afternoon during football (!). The best feature that I feel we offer is that we are always willing to accommodate whatever game a customer wants to see. If Direct Tv offers it, we'll get it on a screen for you. We order all of the sports packages. It makes me laugh (and cringe!) to read that someone at another bar stated they had changed the channels too much that day already, so couldn't show a live Astros game. One of our main focuses that we drill into all of our staff members is to keep up with that night's important games and accommodate any special request. We take the time to write out a daily list for all of them to have on hand and if you called up there right now, the person answering the phone would be able to tell you exactly what college football games we are able to show tomorrow. I really don't get people that call themselves sports bars, but you walk in and even the local teams aren't showing on any screen.. Law & Order will be on or something. Or even worse, the tv's are off. Then again, we named ourself a "lounge" and we've gradually over the past five years found that "sports bar & grill" suits us better. It's what our customers like us best as. Anyhow, thanks for reading. I know there's always room for improvement, so I really enjoy reading everyone's comments about other places' mistakes & good points and learn from them. Tonya (not sure if I set up a signature years ago, so sorry if 2 show up)

Lupe Tortilla has great puffy tacos.

We're on Greenbriar at 59. In the same parking lot as Kinko's.

I'm just curious if any of you have been to our place, The Mezzanine Lounge. I've been reading here as a guest for a couple of years now. I'd love to read any real thoughts and feedback or experiences. Thanks!