Third Base

Since Groupon/Living Social/Urban Dealight are our new things, we eat at the restaurants they offer most of the time.  Last Sunday our living social deal led us to Third Base, a sports bar on West 6th.  It is an OK location, decent atmosphere.  There is pool, darts, and shuffleboard inside along with 10-20 big screens inside and out.  It was a beautiful night so we opted for outside.  The patio is crowded and the tables are not in the best condition, oh yea and the servers can't really see you.  It took about 20 minutes of trying to chase the outside server around and finally asking the bartender to catch her for us before we were even noticed.  Our server was not very knowledgeable and seemed offended that we would ask so many questions.  We asked for 2 waters with no ice and got a soda and a water.. with ice ??.  It took a good 15 minutes between each time she would check on us (we started timing her after a while).  So she brought us waters after 15 minutes, then we order our nachos and asked some additional questions that she had to check on.  5 minutes later she let us know our nachos were put in before letting us know the answers to our questions.  When I asked about this she said in an almost rude way that they were already in so I couldn't change them.  She seemed to be the type of person that would have told us off by now if she were not our server.  We took this opportunity to order our portabella burger with 2 wing sauces on the side.  She was very confused about this, so I tried to explain that we cannot eat ranch or cheese so we would like sauce for our burger and she gave this very blank stare and walked away.  Again, it is hard to explain the sort of confused, angry, frustration her face was portraying.  15 minutes later, we got our cheeseless nachos with black beans, guacamole, sweet corn, pico de gallo and soggy chips.  10-15 minutes later she came to check on us, then another 7 minutes later we got our burger with only one sauce and it did not seem to be either of the sauces we asked for.  It was good but there was something off, Shannon noticed a freezer burned taste and Miguel thought the mushroom had an odd texture.  It was still pretty good with the random sauce on it.  The fries with the "cajun" seasoning were average, it was just a shake of season salt.  We still had a couple dollars left on the deal so we ordered some chips and salsa for dessert although they do have a fresh fruit cup as well.  She didn't come to check on us until after we were done eating for a while so waiting another 15 minutes for the chips and salsa, both which are premade, was a little ridiculous.  We are going on an hour and a half of trying to eat a couple easy items at a sports bar.  Overall the server ruined the experience more so than the food, because it was not bad.  It did not feel like a friendly place for "our kind", face it, no sports bar is.  We will not be back, but mostly because we hate sports!

Do not recommend.