text: Time for an updatennWithin the past month I have visited Downtown Cocktail Room three times And whether it was through my personal experience or the experience of others in my party things have left a generally sour taste in my mouth as of late There are a few things that have stood out in my recent visitsnnThe audacity of a specific bartender I always welcome a bartendermixologists opinion when it comes to recommendations for spirits and cocktails but this individual comes across as arrogant and presumptuous He offers suggestions for DCRoriginal creations and then openly admits that all of his recommendations are his own creation This came up after a customer had inquired about a drink on the Spring menu and the bartender said that he was not the one who created the drink In addition he ignored a customers request for a cocktail made with a specific spirit stating that he does not work with it he then waited for the customer to suggest a different spirit base for a cocktail As a side note this bartender also rang up my bill incorrectly during this visit over charging me for a drinknnService Waitresses were not immediately willing to seat my party in the back area of DCR This was brought to my attention by another member of my party as I arrived after they had They were told that there was no seating available and we only ended up in the back area because a member of our party asked about it Am I to believe we would have been out of luck if we were not aware of the back area Maybe After being seated ordering our drinks and then receiving our drinks the waitress asked if we wanted to start a tab Standard procedure that is cool Some individuals were done ordering and decided it would be easier on them to pay their portion of the bill now instead of having their total added to a tab The waitress then proceeded to bring out the bill for everyone at the table Later in the night when another party was seated in the back area the waitress took an empty chair from our table without asking us if it was takennnDid you know there was a minimum if you are going to use a credit carddebit card I sure did not After going here for the better part of two years that issue has never come up I know this because I often do not carry cash and also usually order only two drinks which will keep the bill below However on a recent visit I ordered one drink for myself and another drink for a friend for a total bill of First of all the bill was brought to us right after our drinks were delivered Really You want me out of there that bad After handing the bill back with my debit card the waitress stated that there was a minimum and that they would have to add to my bill so that I could use my card My card is Visa if this establishment accepts Visa then they also accept all fees due upon Visa transactions from customersnnResponses to Yelp reviews Eight out of the ten lowest scored reviews have received a response from Michael C of Downtown Cocktail Room Not one comment or response however was given to reviews over three stars It is one thing to step up and address concerns with reviews that you feel are not a valid representation of your business however these responses avoid the overall commentary of the reviews and a number of them end with something along the lines of Come by DCR and form your own opinion Normally I would not nitpick and pull out a statistic like I did above but it surprised me to hear about the feedback that people had received for their reviews three stars or lower while I had not gotten any feedback for my review five stars It is a little disheartening to see all the attention the negative reviews receive while the glowing reviews from regular customers appear to go unnoticed until their rating goes down in which case the deduction of two stars in a review prompted a response that ended with Thanks for all of the past supportnnThanks for all of the past support Well your welcome for all of mine as well We will see how things go from here as I am sure I will end up here again probably just not twice a month as I have in the past