114 East Spring Avenue
Conway Springs, KS 67031
Sumner County
Phone: (620) 456-2875
Fax: unknownWebsite: no website on fileEmail: no email on fileHours: unknown
by Sandy T. on Line was super slow and we didn't make guest list :( after 11pm, line went smoothly. It was pretty cracking there. They have 3 different music floors (hip hop, r&b/rap and trance). People there were pretty nice and chill. The place was big, so it was easier to maneuver my way around to find other friends. They had an upstairs and a basement area. love the vibe here!
by Donnetta Plana on I'm all about live music, some good alcohol, and a good crowd of people. I found Star Bar to be a total dive. I really don't understand all the great reviews, but to each their own! My experience here has been, you go to the bar and order a 420 and a vodka cranberry...in return you get a pbr and a whisky sour. The bartender just kinda looks at you and you don't question him, pay your tab and move on. It's dirty. You leave smelling not just like cigarettes (it's expected when you go out to see a show, esp. somewhere like this), but like this dirty dusty smell. There's a definite shower before bed upon returning home from here. The place overall is just dirty. I'd prefer never to come back here and it would take a damn good band to get me to return.
by Tonita Viox on McCoy Tyner--one of the last living legends birthed from that will-never-be-bettered era of jazz--continues to perform frequently around the world, and if you ever get the chance to see him live, take it. We headed to Blue Note on Friday night to bear witness to the wonders of the McCoy Tyner Trio playing with Savion Glover. The trio is Tyner (of course), Charnett Moffett on bass, and Eric Kamau Gravatt, on drums. We were also blessed with the presence of Ravi Coltrane and another saxophonist, who's name I cannot remember. Rarely do I feel that the Platinum Amex card offers benefits worth the $450 per year membership charge. Tonight was no exception, but the perk of platinum purchase was a convenient circumvention of the lengthy outside line, and inside, reserved seats just outside of Savion Glover's sweat circle, and well within viewing proximity of every movement on MyCoy's hands. The music was spectacular. Hand's down, another one of the greatest musical nights I've had, up there with previous McCoy performances. Gravatt's drum solo was stupefying. Savion was as amazing as ever, and the whole group was tighter and more impressive than the last time I saw them. And as such, with an otherworldly musical caliber present, shouldn't the atmosphere be pretty special, too? There are few stances one may take when analyzing this inquiry. 1. In comparison to the greatness on-stage, everything appears languid. 2. The atmosphere just shouldn't want to or even try to compete or outshine the stage performance. 3. Fuck, yes. I tend to fall into the third category--an experience is holistic, and everybody plays their role in the final impression. Well, at Blue Note, our service was wretched. I will not lambaste the entire establishment with fervor, but I can confidently say, the entire establishment could use some improvements. Oh, Natalie. You now have a special place on my mental mantle, right next to that time at Cru. Maybe you're not a first place winner (in anything) but you certainly deserve an honorable mention. I don't mind waiting, especially if a waiter is faced with working understaffed and overcrowded conditions, or any other of the many acceptable reasons for delay and reciprocal patience. Natalie just plain sucked, and I truly feel compassion for her, because this may very well have been the blight on her otherwise-perfect service career, but it would be naive of me to ignore all the signs and actually think that. Back to the 25 minute wait it took to get her initial attention. I'm sorry, but that is just too friggin' long to wait for an initial order in a table service area. But, although annoying, this is the first and easiest thing to move past--a great waiter, once there, is a great waiter. Natalie showing up for work was the just the beginning of her laundry list of mistakes, which I've chose to shorten-ish in an effort to just convey the overall experience, peppered with the truly egregious. She got our order, right--half-bottle of moscato, two cheesecakes, bottle of Nero. Oddly, she arrives with a single champagne glass, for the lady, and three red wine glasses. I mentioned that two of us were drinking the moscato, so she reaches across the table, snags the lone champagne glass away, and during the whole motion drags her wine key through my cheesecake, tearing off a large piece. I see her see this, she sees me see this, she says nothing. Odd, right? Uh,...excuse me, you just obviously ruined my food. Then, she starts to pour us two glass of the moscato in the red wine glasses! So I casually request that we get the two glasses poured in two champagne glasses, but that she can leave the red wine glasses for afterward. She fills the one champagne glass then takes off for the second glass. Returning 10 minutes later or so, we've basically finished the half-bottle, sharing from a single glass, and our cheesecakes. She brings us the second champagne glass and takes our two red wine glasses. Later, and wanting wine, my girlfriend--channeling a frustrated entity much larger than her petite figure--motions Natalie down and snapped at her, "You took our red wine glasses and we hadn't even used them yet." Any respectable individual knows, after a comment like that you can kiss any semblance of service good bye. Natalie defended, stating that I told her to take them, which I obviously did not, and then, of course, brought us two red wine glass, arriving in the midst of me still laughing--hard--over the shock and awe of excessive force used in delivering the previous message. Poor Natalie. Not knowing the show as about to end, I ordered a Canadian Club Manhattan, on the rocks. It came after the show ended, and was followed by the wrong bill, but containing the right Manhattan. Awesome. And it's expensive. So, go for the music--it's incredible, moving, inspirational, and genius. I'll definitely be going back.
