epic time for all. tried out afk tavern while visiting the area, after hearing all the hype about it being a gaming bar. it was even more awesome than we could ever have hoped for. it...was...glorious. it is extremely hard to find a gaming place for board gamers beyond the token connect four and monopoly boards, so we were happily surprised by the selection of european board games they had to offer. we had a few fun rounds of race for the galaxy, 7 wonder, and the longest possible game of manila. fun times!
even more surprising was the quality of the food and mixed drinks. i've been to a lot of trendy bars and martini lounges in hollywood and la, but none of them can touch afk tavern's mixologists. i've been trying to find a place near home that can make so many amazing drinks, and still haven't found one half as good as what i had at afk. and to top it off, they were all gamer and geek themed! i was tickled pink to get to order an pan galactic gargle blaster. douglas adams would've been proud!
many rounds of drinks were ordered, and they were all amazing. we tried over the span of hours of gaming (and i highly recommend all of these), a mead tasting flight, lon lon milk, vespene gas, a cyberman conversion colada (best colada ever!), morning glory dew (my lvl 80 priest thanks you), a pan galactic gargle blaster (it was exactly like having my brains smashed out by a piece of lemon wrapped around a large gold brick), a geruda valley tea, the best whiskey sour i've ever had, a peacekeeper daquiri, a limbic fizzler (pretty!), a shot of go team deathknight!, a like like shot, and a fallout shot. we wanted to order more, but we were pretty blasted and finally decided to slow down.
as for food, we had some mozzarella joy sticks, beer fries, pita and hummus, onion halos, the true gold corn balls, the ult, and the street samurai burger with unicorn bacon. the fried food had a very clean taste, which we were told was because they were cooked in a fry separate from any meat products to avoid cross contamination. neat! our vegan friends would be grateful if they could've come with us. on another note, their "unicorn" bacon was something magical. if you like/love bacon, you need to try theirs.
next time we're in the area visiting family, we're definitely going to have to go back and try a whole new set of drinks from their massive specialty menu! any fan of amazing mixed drinks, good food, and games of all types will love this place! i hope they open one near where i live someday! i would be there every chance i had!