The middle area is where the food comes from. Sure, it's bright, but the sign is actually a good thing from a user-friendliness standpoint. All the way in back is the beer garden, which is to outdoor patios what SkyDome is to sports stadiums. It's an open-air seating area when the weather's nice, and when it gets cold and damp, out come the temporary walls and roof. And you've got to love the fireplace they've got out there.
Fireplaces make everything better, especially outdoor patios.
Several cool paintings that were probably done by local artists adorn the walls above the crowd. The tunes come from either a CD jukebox or a stereo system behind the bar. The night I was there, the juke was off and the bartenders were running the show. And apparently it was disco night. The point of all this is there's no set plan to the music.