Well, I'll tell you. I was impressed that despite the Twister evoking crab configuration that our bodies were in, in the booth, the waitress didn't even seem to notice, continuing to bring us drink after drink after glorious libation. I find this to be a top notch quality in any well run establishment and I do commend them on our treatment. There is no doubt in my mind that I should have been cut off. But low let this be a warming to anyone who does cut off Papa Sobriety there shall be hell to pay or at least your not getting a very good review.
Anyway, so on with the show. Sputnik is okay. It's essentially a hipster bar for those straddling style and age. "30 year old still trying to make it" musicians meet up with "I just ran away from home" little girls, while successful hipsters break out their "new" wave clothes so that they can look emo. To be honest, it is really the epitome of every thing that is the SoBro lifestyle. The bar I'm fairly convinced was actually designed to look like a dive bar, even though it is everything but. Strangely in a lot of cases, despite what I said above, that is the clientele. There are a lot of people who while they don't know what they want to do with their life, are actually doing pretty well but still like to look like shit so that they can pretend that they haven't sold out. Yeah, I used to live on SoBro, and while I still don't know what I want to do with my life I don't dress quite as bad as I used to. Okay, I do. And I go to Sputnik. Crap.
If you don't like scenes you probably won't like it here, but if you do like scenes they spin some great music most nights considering it only has four booths and a very long bar. Their drink prices kind of suck, but get to know the bar tenders. Not that that is any secret at any bar. Let's see, they also have a restaurant in the back. I hear it's good. The only thing I ever got I didn't like, but then I wasn't really paying any attention to the food. Basically, this is the hip spot on Broadway, so if you want to meet your "cool" neighbors, want to break into entertainment or your just realized that you're new to town you should go here at least once.